• WashedAnus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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        8 months ago

        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.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        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.

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          8 months ago

          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.)