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June 1, 2009
Hemp Houses
Hemp is a sacred plant to moonbats, who come up with their best ideas under its influence. The high priests of environmentalism have declared it to be earth friendly. Plans have been laid to make houses out of hemp, so that our very homes can be shrines to moonbattery:
Hemp, a plant from the cannabis family, could be used to build carbon-neutral homes of the future to help combat climate change and boost the rural economy, say researchers at the University of Bath.
A consortium, led by the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials based at the University, has embarked on a unique housing project to develop the use of hemp-lime construction materials in the UK.
Hemp-lime is a lightweight composite building material made of fibres from the fast growing plant, bound together using a lime-based adhesive. The hemp plant stores carbon during its growth and this, combined with the low carbon footprint of lime and its very efficient insulating properties, gives the material a 'better than zero carbon' footprint.
As always, behind the smokescreen of ecokookery, taxpayers are getting fleeced:
The three year project, worth almost £750,000, will collect vital scientific and engineering data about this new material so that it can be more widely used in the UK for building homes.
Check out this stylish inflatable hemp house:
It would look even sharper with one of the ecofriendly death traps Government Motors will be making parked out in front.
On a tip from Air2air.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 1, 2009 9:22 AM
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Cheech and Chong would love this.
Up in smoke baby.
Posted by: Greg at June 1, 2009 9:30 AM
Dr. Quentin Q. Quinn: That's not in the budget! How are we paying for all this?
Sparks: Selling pot.
[pause]
Sparks: ...Holders.
[pause]
Sparks: ...Made of hemp.
Posted by: Hesh at June 1, 2009 9:36 AM
IDIOTS, all of em!
Posted by: Oiao at June 1, 2009 9:46 AM
When I was a fireman, hemp rope was banned. Not because it was inferior to all other alternatives at the time, because it wasn't. It was some of the most durable, strong, and mold/mildew resistant stuff that you could use for rope. It was banned because if it did get "burned" there was another situation that could cause problems.
The food truck that responded to big fires never recovered from the income loss when the rope was replaced with synthetic rope.
Posted by: bjd at June 1, 2009 9:56 AM
Reminds me of a book I read many years ago set in Kalifornication called 'Ecotopia'.
Those would look good in Kookifornia.
Posted by: JoeShmoe at June 1, 2009 10:20 AM
Ooooh that smell
Cant you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Posted by: J at June 1, 2009 10:39 AM
Can I get a moonbat to explain to me how tree farms are not environmentally friendly yet hemp farms are?
Posted by: Eric at June 1, 2009 10:58 AM
I have to wonder about the insulating properties. 'Climate change' by definition, and in retrograde from 'global warming' means things will be getting colder. It looks like it would make an excellent burrial shrowd, and the lime would aid in decomposition. I'm all for it. Wait, don't they have to paint it white?
Posted by: Eric at June 1, 2009 11:05 AM
Wouldn't it be much cheaper to just live in a cave?
Good grief
Posted by: We Are So Screwed at June 1, 2009 11:18 AM
DOPE IS FOR LIBERAL MOONBAT DOPES LIKE BARACK OBAMA
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 1, 2009 11:19 AM
This seems like a dreadful fire hazard, and should not pass code. Please tell the nosy nannies. Also, it's an aesthetic eyesore, much like a wind turbine.
Again, I ask: Where in the hell is the money coming from for these goofy studies out of the UK? They don't have any money.
Posted by: Karin at June 1, 2009 12:34 PM
"Can I get a moonbat to explain to me how tree farms are not environmentally friendly yet hemp farms are?
"Posted by: Eric at June 1, 2009 10:58 AM"
I hear they are cutting down a thousand acres of forrest to make room for a hemp farm.
OK, Time for the snarky comment parade!
> Build a city like that and we could be defeated by a SOCCER team!
> "Hello, 911! Some hippies are smoking my house!"
> Yes, hemp is such a great insulater that you don't even need WALLS!
> "Are you neo-cons afraid of new things?"
"No, we just want a house that doesn't BLOW AWAY with every strong breeze!"
Posted by: KHarn at June 1, 2009 1:59 PM
Well, it will be good for crime rates rising. All you need is a pocket knife to get in.
Posted by: Oiao at June 1, 2009 3:03 PM
LOL. Looks like a giant turd.
Posted by: Scaramouche at June 1, 2009 6:17 PM
When I left California there was an outfit in the Sacramento Valley building houses out of straw. Okay – that’s a little misleading – they were actually using hay bales. The houses look like most other houses; are extremely well insulated (DUH!), are more wind and earthquake resistant than a regular frame house, and oddly enough, more fire resistant.
Of course an old hippy would use kilos of pot rather than bales of hay… but then they would have their houses all ‘smoked up’ in no time! (Or sold off by the ounce, then they’d be homeless!)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 1, 2009 6:47 PM
In hurricane force winds it might be a bit like Zorbing.
Posted by: J at June 1, 2009 8:21 PM
Hurricane nothing one good breeze and its kaput
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 1, 2009 9:06 PM
Usually when stoners try to come up with a plan of action it ends up like this.
Posted by: mandible claw at June 1, 2009 10:56 PM
That gives a new meaning to the term 'dope house'.
Posted by: Eric at June 2, 2009 5:51 AM
Looks kind of like a blimp people in it start sneezing and the thing over inflates and explodes KA-POW
Posted by: Flu-Bird at June 2, 2009 8:14 AM
I cant wait for the fall and we all have to live like pomuffeggrs. ittl be just like the middle ages and we can huddle and serve the obmessia.
Posted by: czuch at June 2, 2009 10:17 AM
