I don't understand why HN finds piracy acceptable for news content. If the post was about a video game or movie release, should we pin a link to the .torrent file?
The difference being that you don't need to play the entire game or watch the entire movie in order to take part in the discussion about that game's/movie's release. However, you do need to read the entire article before being able to take part in the discussion about that article.
So I think it's fair that OPs should either make sure that the articles the post are accessible to all (and hence the discussion about those articles (which is the entire point of hacker news) is also accessible), or just don't post paywalled articles
...or alternatively post a paywall bypass. Maybe it's not right, but it's a solution.
CBD being the main drive to get into hemp seems misguided. People have been pushing the advantages of hemp fibers in industrial use cases for a long time, but obviously it will take awhile for these products to build up steam since hemp was less common in the past.
You’ve been able to have shipping containers of the stuff delivered from China and other places to your loading dock for decades.
They grow millions upon millions of tons of it each year and have an entire infrastructure of university and government research organizations built up around hemp cultivation.
The industrial products are never coming. Access by US domestic engineers and scientists to hemp on the order of days instead of weeks won’t change that.
There are billions of people on earth for which hemp cultivation has never been illegal, where they have grown it for centuries if not millennia.
To think that domestic production will spin up the release of industrial products can only lead to one of two conclusions:
1. There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim. (The ludicrous ones) or,
2. Most of rest of the world, around 3 billion people, are all stupid and/or incompetent and only the smart and industrious US domestic engineers and scientists can figure out how to use hemp for things other than hippy bags.
I’ve been around the world. I’m going to go with 1.
I’m not saying hemp doesn’t have industrial uses.
I’m saying that the claims by some of its more fervent activists, on the order of “hemp fuel will power hemp steel-manufactured flying cars adorned in hemp faux “Rich Corinthian“ leather, that land of runways made of hempcrete and it’s all going to be carbon neural and organic because hemp violates the laws of thermodynamics and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticide” are wrong.
You left out the option that the industrial hemp products are more expensive (at this point) so only niche producers use it. I think hemp will see some industrial usage when it becomes cost effective.
As far as I know, most followed US hegemony, and for example in germany it was legal, but very hard to get permission to grow hemp. So only small uses like for making rope and birdfood.
So I also believe demand and supply for various things will grow.
I really like for example, that nowdays you can get organic hemp seeds in the supermarket. It gets more in fashion, because it is nice and quite healthy.
But no, hemp will probably not disrupt big industries. It might disrupt the alcohol industrie a bit though, when it is widespread legal.
The Soviet Union grew it quite extensively, and I believe both Canada, France, and Australia have allowed its growing for a couple decades now. It doesn't seem like in any of those countries it has lived up to the potential pro-hemp boosters claim.
It's a lot easier to grow hemp than build out the manufacturing infrastructure to produce products with it, so this glut should have been expected.
"There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim."
That's a leap too far, especially considering the current chaotic state of the laws governing its use. There are surely advocates that also make leaps too far but the truth about the potential resides in the known uses, which are many, and those yet to come, which are also likely to be many.
Since China has a head start working on this we can assume it's likely they will be leaders in both hemp production and manufacturing hemp based products, and we can only blame ourselves if they are. But that still doesn't mean that the U.S won't invest in processing hemp grown here into useful and profitable products and when it does the cost and profits of production will stabilize.
> That's a leap too far, especially considering the current chaotic state of the laws governing its use.
As the parent poster said, in most of the rest of the world, there are no such laws governing its use, and for some reason, nobody in it really has much of a need for this 'miracle' plant.
Before I commented I did a google search on hemp laws in China and they have very strict laws on it there. And we have strict laws on what can be imported here, so I'm not really sure what the parent poster is talking about. Basically we can import stalks and seeds that can't germinate here.
I don't know what those sell for but it's probably pretty hard to beat the price of what could be grown here legally.
Levi corporation announced just this year a line of the jeans and other clothes to be made with hemp. I think they're being made offshore but the point that it will take time for industries to ramp up for using hemp is made by that single case alone.
The market for it will surely grow from this point and likely peak and stabilize pretty quickly and, no, it won't be a "get rich bonanza" for farmers because it will grow almost anywhere here but it will be another crop they can grow and sell and that's good thing.
Right. Somehow the hemp enthusiasts never seem to be interested in the other bast fibers - flax, jute, kenaf, manila, etc. Those all have major industrial uses. Hemp - just doesn't. Hemp rope went out towards the end of the sailing ship era, when manila, which doesn't rot from the inside out, was found.
The real action now seems to be in bagasse, the leftover strands after extracting sugar from sugar cane. It's a waste product from sugar mills, so it's really cheap, sometimes free. It's made into biodegradable containers for fast food, replacing styrofoam. Many of those little white clamshell boxes used for food delivery are now made from bagasse. It's also possible to make oriented strand board from bagasse, although that hasn't really caught on.
There's huge amounts of agricultural waste available very cheaply, if you have a use for it. Ethanol fuel from cellulose was a hot idea once, as a way to do something useful with corn cobs and stalks, but it's just not cost-effective.
Also, isn't hemp-derived CBD more or less inert? My understanding is that there's some evidence for positive psychological effects from cannabis-derived CBD but not for hemp-derived.
I've heard they grow the same strains but harvest very early. Additionally, there are strains that have been bred to only have CBD. So both are correct.
There are some questions around whether the “entourage effect” is beneficial with CBD. In other words, does the presence of THC and various other compounds make CBD oil more effective for x or y (vs pure isolates of just CBD).
But “industrial hemp” really just means cannabis with a THC content below a federally determined guideline. And that’s why it needs to be tested for being “hot”. Many people lose their crops because they test hot and find themselves with smokable weed.
CBD is a single molecule (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol ). it doesn't matter where you get that molecule from, or if you synthesize it from raw chemical feedstocks.
Also misguided because it's the THC that is more valuable for treating serious diseases like cancer. They should be growing high THC strains with high priority.
It really depends how you approached it. CBD flower from the colas is still selling well even if biomass isn't. CBG biomass is still selling at $200-275/lb. An acre costs about $10k to plant and yields 2,000lb of biomass. Most people lost their shirts because
1) they weren't growing on contract and didn't have buyers lined up
2) didn't grow for smokable flower
3) had their plants herm due to bad seed stock or environmental stress
4) their hemp ran 'hot' with THC over the allowable levels and they live in a state where the AG commissioner cares. Was up in Oregon and the farmers were telling me as long as it's under 2.0% THC they get a pass. In more strict states it's 0.3%.
Source: am a shareholder in a large CBD cultivation/manufacturing business.
Just to clarify: <=0.3% is the federal cut-off. it’s protected by the agricultural whatever act of 2018 - the plant itself is legal to cultivate, and its CBD oil derivatives are likewise loosely regulated. Above that it’s considered to be illegal cannabis, and -its- CBD oil derivatives are regulated accordingly.
Also in Oregon though only tangentially connected to the industry. We’ll see how long the CBG premium lasts. If American farmers are good at anything, it’s oversupplying demand.
Missed a big one, which is the weather. Oregon had a week of early rain followed by a period of warm, sunny weather. These perfect mold conditions caused it to run rampant and hurt a lot of farms.
Source: My company grows hemp in Oregon
You know you are in a huge production bubble when all major cannabis producers use as their main metric their production capacity. Aurora cannabis even went as far as to lower their Average net selling price of wholesale bulk cannabis by 4% in the last quarter, due to not finding the demand to keep up with the production boom of the industry.
Reminds me of the scene in the "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" where oil was booming and production was hardly centralized which led to big fluctuations in the price and an overestimation of the demand, and therefore of the necessary supply.
That's unfortunate, because industrial hemp (as opposed to cannabis hemp)is the most efficient way to capture carbon dioxide in the form of biomass. It should be grown for carbon credits alone, but this (cannabis) hemp bubble imploding will taint industrial hemp by association.
Sequestration remains an open problem. There are no large scale biomass capture projects in operation. But the science isn't hard: you bury it, basically. Or if you want to be fancy you burn it for biomass energy and capture the resulting CO2 for fancier sequestration techniques. Both are expensive, and no one is willing to foot the bill.
Right now the only realistic way to use photosynthesis to capture CO2 in a long term way is to plant a forest. There's some amount of this going on, though not enough to even cover deforestation elsewhere.
We need to start throwing our old newspapers down coal mines (or bury it) rather than recycling it - that will encourage more trees to be grown and solid paper is a great way to sequester carbon
Lets say you burn it to generate power, as a lot of refuse is in Sweden. That's substituting for fossil fuels. Is it better to burn oil out of the ground, or carbon extracted from the atmosphere? You're creating a more sustainable cycle.
As a material, if you're using it in place of plastics again it forms a more sustainable cycle over a reasonably long time frame.
Yes we do need to sequester some atmospheric carbon long term, but establishing a more sustainable carbon materials cycle has an important role to play.
It's about the long term. For hemp, in this case, Let's say 10 tons are captured per year, 1 ton is burned immediately as biomass. 9 tons is converted into goods which have an average duration of 10 years before being discarded, let's assume that they're burned immediately after 10 years, then you can get a net effect of removing 90 tons after the 10 year mark (hitting a steady state because 9 tons extra are being burned every year from that point on). If you can keep that 9 tons out of the atmosphere for 100 years, you remove 900 tons from the atmosphere after a century.
If those goods are discarded in a manner where the carbon isn't immediately re-released, so they're buried or introduced into a bio-system that can consume it and turn the carbon into some other non-gas form, then you can get further gains.
You can turn it into biochar. The biochar contains a large part of the plant's carbon and is stable for a few millenia at least. The process is even exothermic. It is also good for the soil if you till it under.
The WSJ article makes me feel better about strongly urging a family member against an investment in a hemp farm in 2018. They used an unrealistic value for the price of CBD in their projections and didn't account for a decrease in the price over the next few years.
But besides that, it was one of the worst business plans I'd ever seen. I couldn't tell if they were just inept, or were scam artists looking for gullible investors.
As another comment noted, biomass is overproduced and prices low but premium smokeable hemp flower is still doing well. I imagine more farmers will shift in that direction next year, assuming the new USDA rules don't destroy the industry.
The new USDA guidelines would make almost all of the current strains of CBD-dominant flower unavailable to grow due to the change in testing to count total THC rather than just delta-9 THC. Some farmers will switch to CBG which is another cannabinoid, but it's not one that is going to have as wide of an appeal.
My small friends and family grows in Southern Oregon and we did ok this year despite the challenges, but there is a lot of uncertainty around what will happen next year due to the potential regulation changes.
This reminds me of the ethanol rush in the early aughts by farmers who rushed to pull the crops they were growing to switch over to corn in hopes ethanol and E85 craze would take off.
A decade later and the debate still rages whether ethanol and E85 was even it worth it now with electric vehicles and hybrids are way more common and many stations who had E85 pumps are all but gone now.
Nadler, Mueller, & Schiff all rape and kill boys in Buffalo, NY on the night of January 14, 2019, as Trump did earlier that morning. The "impeachment" is a vehicle for keeping power, they are all working together. Full audio proving this entirely here, all three admit collusion with the President.
\\14 January 2019 11:23pm: Jerrold Nadler steps up to take his turn during the Illuminati "rape party". Nadler rapes and kills three boys in under a minute, however, there was a problem. One of the boys was already dead, so he requests a new one. Jerrold Nadler then requests another ten boys. Donald Reeves: "That's a million dollar request". Nadler responds: "...you guys will cover it. I'm gonna keep Trump in power" (Trump raped and killed a dozen boys 6:30-7:00am that morning). By the time Nadler is finished, he had raped and killed 24 boys. Audio pulled from the video linked below:
14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 - Nadler starts at about 20:00 in.
Further disclosure by Porter about 24:47 in: Oblivious tenant Brian Schlenker comments on something unrelated to the ongoing events: "..call the fucking police...", to which is responded with: "...that's funny because we own the police (Buffalo Police Department), we pay them $6 million dollars a month."
19 minutes in Fred Norris, formerly of the Howard Stern show, is acknowledged on the system.
At 19:47 in Porter admits that Brian Schlenker will be the owner of this footage should it be discovered.
January 15, 2019 00:20: Special Counsel Robert Mueller takes his turn at the Illuminati "rape party" in Buffalo, New York. Mueller rapes and kills twelve boys. About roughly 00:55 Representative Adam Schiff who will also be leading an impeachment effort, also requests the same deal as Nadler, and then tries to make a case for getting more than Nadler and Mueller. Adam Schiff rapes and kills three boys. Mueller and Schiff all receive $3 billion dollars each for joing the group. Nadler came back to witness these two rape to make sure they were all bound together under one purpose: keep Trump in power, and also to confirm the payments to each, including his $10.5 billion dollar payment.
Between Mueller and Schiff turns, the group issues orders for ten women to begin prepping more boys for rape. They are former friends and family of Brian Schlenker, and also some long standing Illuminati members who include Elsa Hosk, Gigi and Bella Hadid. Again, the "prep" these females engage means they perform oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and subsequently murdered. Just a head's up, my voice is scattered throughout all of the footage within the links posted for this update, and is quite loud relative to the desired content at times. Audio links below:
Hemp seeds have failed to catch on as food for a simple reason: they're too strongly flavored. The nutrition claims are largely true, and the flavor isn't terrible, but in order for hempseed to provide, say, 15 grams of protein to a meal, you need to eat about a quarter of a cup of hempseeds. Imagine eating a quarter of a cup of sesame seeds. See the problem? I think the missing link here is some kind of fermentation process that produces something more palatable.
As for the fiber, it's a relatively unremarkable cellulosic fiber. It is rather coarse and contains about 8% lignin, which means hemp fabric is relatively stiff and rough, limiting its application to clothing beyond its branding power (and shoes, where it works well). However, it is useful in composites. Hemp is apparently being used to make composite panels for several cars in the present day, although the actual volume in this market is not so high. The asterisk is that there are lots of other similar fibers (jute, linen, lyocell) that work well in composites, and it's the resins (polyester) which tend to be both more expensive and environmentally problematic. If some kind of more eco-friendly resin technology appears (don't hold your breath) it could become more widespread.
Other claims, e.g. hemp as a building material, are just wrong (hempcrete is not structural). Hemp rope was replaced by manila which has better moisture resistance. Hemp as a biodiesel precursor is unremarkable.
Trader Joe's has a vanilla hemp protein powder I like (milk-based ones mess with my stomach). I couldn't imagine eating the seeds directly, but they go down very easy in a smoothie.
I'm not familiar with any fermentation process that operates on nuts, or any high-fat food source besides soybeans.
I'm not sure if this process has been attempted with hempseeds. It's a fast bacterial process, in contrast with the slow fungal fermentation of dairy cheeses. I wouldn't really say it's a commercial-ready process at this point; I'd like to see something done with proper cheese cultures!
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 118 ms ] threadThey grow millions upon millions of tons of it each year and have an entire infrastructure of university and government research organizations built up around hemp cultivation.
The industrial products are never coming. Access by US domestic engineers and scientists to hemp on the order of days instead of weeks won’t change that.
There are billions of people on earth for which hemp cultivation has never been illegal, where they have grown it for centuries if not millennia.
To think that domestic production will spin up the release of industrial products can only lead to one of two conclusions:
1. There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim. (The ludicrous ones) or,
2. Most of rest of the world, around 3 billion people, are all stupid and/or incompetent and only the smart and industrious US domestic engineers and scientists can figure out how to use hemp for things other than hippy bags.
I’ve been around the world. I’m going to go with 1.
I’m not saying hemp doesn’t have industrial uses.
I’m saying that the claims by some of its more fervent activists, on the order of “hemp fuel will power hemp steel-manufactured flying cars adorned in hemp faux “Rich Corinthian“ leather, that land of runways made of hempcrete and it’s all going to be carbon neural and organic because hemp violates the laws of thermodynamics and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticide” are wrong.
As far as I know, most followed US hegemony, and for example in germany it was legal, but very hard to get permission to grow hemp. So only small uses like for making rope and birdfood.
So I also believe demand and supply for various things will grow. I really like for example, that nowdays you can get organic hemp seeds in the supermarket. It gets more in fashion, because it is nice and quite healthy. But no, hemp will probably not disrupt big industries. It might disrupt the alcohol industrie a bit though, when it is widespread legal.
"There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim."
That's a leap too far, especially considering the current chaotic state of the laws governing its use. There are surely advocates that also make leaps too far but the truth about the potential resides in the known uses, which are many, and those yet to come, which are also likely to be many.
Since China has a head start working on this we can assume it's likely they will be leaders in both hemp production and manufacturing hemp based products, and we can only blame ourselves if they are. But that still doesn't mean that the U.S won't invest in processing hemp grown here into useful and profitable products and when it does the cost and profits of production will stabilize.
As the parent poster said, in most of the rest of the world, there are no such laws governing its use, and for some reason, nobody in it really has much of a need for this 'miracle' plant.
How do you explain that?
I don't know what those sell for but it's probably pretty hard to beat the price of what could be grown here legally.
Levi corporation announced just this year a line of the jeans and other clothes to be made with hemp. I think they're being made offshore but the point that it will take time for industries to ramp up for using hemp is made by that single case alone.
The market for it will surely grow from this point and likely peak and stabilize pretty quickly and, no, it won't be a "get rich bonanza" for farmers because it will grow almost anywhere here but it will be another crop they can grow and sell and that's good thing.
The real action now seems to be in bagasse, the leftover strands after extracting sugar from sugar cane. It's a waste product from sugar mills, so it's really cheap, sometimes free. It's made into biodegradable containers for fast food, replacing styrofoam. Many of those little white clamshell boxes used for food delivery are now made from bagasse. It's also possible to make oriented strand board from bagasse, although that hasn't really caught on.
There's huge amounts of agricultural waste available very cheaply, if you have a use for it. Ethanol fuel from cellulose was a hot idea once, as a way to do something useful with corn cobs and stalks, but it's just not cost-effective.
There are some questions around whether the “entourage effect” is beneficial with CBD. In other words, does the presence of THC and various other compounds make CBD oil more effective for x or y (vs pure isolates of just CBD).
But “industrial hemp” really just means cannabis with a THC content below a federally determined guideline. And that’s why it needs to be tested for being “hot”. Many people lose their crops because they test hot and find themselves with smokable weed.
Honestly the science on this isn't in because the funding has never been available.
(it's also totally orthogonal to my claim.)
1) they weren't growing on contract and didn't have buyers lined up 2) didn't grow for smokable flower 3) had their plants herm due to bad seed stock or environmental stress 4) their hemp ran 'hot' with THC over the allowable levels and they live in a state where the AG commissioner cares. Was up in Oregon and the farmers were telling me as long as it's under 2.0% THC they get a pass. In more strict states it's 0.3%.
Source: am a shareholder in a large CBD cultivation/manufacturing business.
Just to clarify: <=0.3% is the federal cut-off. it’s protected by the agricultural whatever act of 2018 - the plant itself is legal to cultivate, and its CBD oil derivatives are likewise loosely regulated. Above that it’s considered to be illegal cannabis, and -its- CBD oil derivatives are regulated accordingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_farm_bill
And then asking for handouts when they don't make their money back.
Reminds me of the scene in the "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" where oil was booming and production was hardly centralized which led to big fluctuations in the price and an overestimation of the demand, and therefore of the necessary supply.
You grow a ton of hemp. It captures X tons of carbon.
People use it for rope or whatever. Eventually throw it away. It decays or is burned. X tons of carb are released back into the atmosphere.
How did that capture any carbon?
- the products last longer than a rotting plant. This is incremental.
- burned for energy. This reduces coal, NG etc uses and is roughly carbon neutral
Right now the only realistic way to use photosynthesis to capture CO2 in a long term way is to plant a forest. There's some amount of this going on, though not enough to even cover deforestation elsewhere.
As a material, if you're using it in place of plastics again it forms a more sustainable cycle over a reasonably long time frame.
Yes we do need to sequester some atmospheric carbon long term, but establishing a more sustainable carbon materials cycle has an important role to play.
If those goods are discarded in a manner where the carbon isn't immediately re-released, so they're buried or introduced into a bio-system that can consume it and turn the carbon into some other non-gas form, then you can get further gains.
Are they really growing that much more efficient? Cannabis hemp was also intensively optimised for grow since generations.
But besides that, it was one of the worst business plans I'd ever seen. I couldn't tell if they were just inept, or were scam artists looking for gullible investors.
Business 101
The new USDA guidelines would make almost all of the current strains of CBD-dominant flower unavailable to grow due to the change in testing to count total THC rather than just delta-9 THC. Some farmers will switch to CBG which is another cannabinoid, but it's not one that is going to have as wide of an appeal.
My small friends and family grows in Southern Oregon and we did ok this year despite the challenges, but there is a lot of uncertainty around what will happen next year due to the potential regulation changes.
A decade later and the debate still rages whether ethanol and E85 was even it worth it now with electric vehicles and hybrids are way more common and many stations who had E85 pumps are all but gone now.
\\14 January 2019 11:23pm: Jerrold Nadler steps up to take his turn during the Illuminati "rape party". Nadler rapes and kills three boys in under a minute, however, there was a problem. One of the boys was already dead, so he requests a new one. Jerrold Nadler then requests another ten boys. Donald Reeves: "That's a million dollar request". Nadler responds: "...you guys will cover it. I'm gonna keep Trump in power" (Trump raped and killed a dozen boys 6:30-7:00am that morning). By the time Nadler is finished, he had raped and killed 24 boys. Audio pulled from the video linked below:
14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 - Nadler starts at about 20:00 in.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU...
14JanCh2_2304-2359.mp3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W...
14JanCh3_2302-2359.mp3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wdDIsxfsX7xTBIBZYzV4iE4xEdg...
Further disclosure by Porter about 24:47 in: Oblivious tenant Brian Schlenker comments on something unrelated to the ongoing events: "..call the fucking police...", to which is responded with: "...that's funny because we own the police (Buffalo Police Department), we pay them $6 million dollars a month."
19 minutes in Fred Norris, formerly of the Howard Stern show, is acknowledged on the system.
At 19:47 in Porter admits that Brian Schlenker will be the owner of this footage should it be discovered.
January 15, 2019 00:20: Special Counsel Robert Mueller takes his turn at the Illuminati "rape party" in Buffalo, New York. Mueller rapes and kills twelve boys. About roughly 00:55 Representative Adam Schiff who will also be leading an impeachment effort, also requests the same deal as Nadler, and then tries to make a case for getting more than Nadler and Mueller. Adam Schiff rapes and kills three boys. Mueller and Schiff all receive $3 billion dollars each for joing the group. Nadler came back to witness these two rape to make sure they were all bound together under one purpose: keep Trump in power, and also to confirm the payments to each, including his $10.5 billion dollar payment.
Between Mueller and Schiff turns, the group issues orders for ten women to begin prepping more boys for rape. They are former friends and family of Brian Schlenker, and also some long standing Illuminati members who include Elsa Hosk, Gigi and Bella Hadid. Again, the "prep" these females engage means they perform oral sex on the boys’ penis and anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be raped and subsequently murdered. Just a head's up, my voice is scattered throughout all of the footage within the links posted for this update, and is quite loud relative to the desired content at times. Audio links below:
15JanCh4_000-100.mp3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2...
15JanCh4_100-200.mp3
As for the fiber, it's a relatively unremarkable cellulosic fiber. It is rather coarse and contains about 8% lignin, which means hemp fabric is relatively stiff and rough, limiting its application to clothing beyond its branding power (and shoes, where it works well). However, it is useful in composites. Hemp is apparently being used to make composite panels for several cars in the present day, although the actual volume in this market is not so high. The asterisk is that there are lots of other similar fibers (jute, linen, lyocell) that work well in composites, and it's the resins (polyester) which tend to be both more expensive and environmentally problematic. If some kind of more eco-friendly resin technology appears (don't hold your breath) it could become more widespread.
Other claims, e.g. hemp as a building material, are just wrong (hempcrete is not structural). Hemp rope was replaced by manila which has better moisture resistance. Hemp as a biodiesel precursor is unremarkable.
I'm not familiar with any fermentation process that operates on nuts, or any high-fat food source besides soybeans.
http://www.bccdc.ca/resource-gallery/Documents/Educational%2...
I'm not sure if this process has been attempted with hempseeds. It's a fast bacterial process, in contrast with the slow fungal fermentation of dairy cheeses. I wouldn't really say it's a commercial-ready process at this point; I'd like to see something done with proper cheese cultures!