The Canna Curious Podcast: Conversations on Cannabis, Wellness & Women’s Health
A podcast exploring medicinal cannabis, plant-based healing, and women’s health. Host Kyla de Clifford shares real stories, expert insights, and conscious conversations about chronic pain, nervous system support, advocacy, and natural medicine. For curious minds redefining healing.
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The Canna Curious Podcast: Conversations on Cannabis, Wellness & Women’s Health
46 - Hemp as Fuel - Why Aren’t We Using It? With Kyla de Clifford.
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This week, we explore a question that seems simple… but isn’t:
If hemp can be used as fuel then why aren’t we using it? Particularly during this very planned war and outage of oil with far reaching implications.
In this episode, I break down:
- The history of hemp as an industrial crop
- Henry Ford’s plant-based car and early biofuel exploration
- What hemp fuel actually is (biodiesel + ethanol)
- Whether it really works — and where it falls short
- Why it didn’t scale (policy, infrastructure, economics)
- Where hemp fits in today’s energy conversation
- And the bigger question: how systems decide what gets adopted… and what gets left behind
References & Further Reading
- USDA Hemp for Victory archive
https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43843001/PDF - Hemp biomass & biofuel potential (Bioresource Technology)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096085241830306X - Industrial hemp for energy (Energies journal)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/21/5810 - Bioenergy crop comparison review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032118304983 - Hemp and phytoremediation (Frontiers in Plant Science)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00359/full
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