Gotta get all the toxins out of the soil we put there somehow. Hemp works well at remediating and it’ll grow well enough, considering you’re not really worrying about the crop being desirable.
that’s really neat actually. I have a vague interest, mainly watching a few scant videos every once in a while, in ecological restoration work and bio-rediversification, so hearing this kind of stuff’s gives me the sort of positive brain tinglies.
What do you do with the resulting toxic hemp though? It’s just a repackaged heavy metal that’s going to get composted back into the dirt at some point.
That’s a good question. I imagine sequestration, extracting the heavy metals and using it for industrial purposes, or extreme dilution (the old saying “The solution to pollution is dilution” is true, you just have to do it right. They’re all naturally occurring elements, it’s just the concentrations that are toxic.)
Replace them with solar farms and soil remediation fields. Nothing of value will be lost destroying those two monuments to settler-colonial hubris.
in the desert? would that actually work out there?
Gotta get all the toxins out of the soil we put there somehow. Hemp works well at remediating and it’ll grow well enough, considering you’re not really worrying about the crop being desirable.
that’s really neat actually. I have a vague interest, mainly watching a few scant videos every once in a while, in ecological restoration work and bio-rediversification, so hearing this kind of stuff’s gives me the sort of positive brain tinglies.
What do you do with the resulting toxic hemp though? It’s just a repackaged heavy metal that’s going to get composted back into the dirt at some point.
That’s a good question. I imagine sequestration, extracting the heavy metals and using it for industrial purposes, or extreme dilution (the old saying “The solution to pollution is dilution” is true, you just have to do it right. They’re all naturally occurring elements, it’s just the concentrations that are toxic.)