{"id":225,"date":"2007-07-20T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/hemp-car\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:58","slug":"hemp-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/hemp-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp car on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has reported that Defra, the UK environment department, has struck a deal with Ford and Hemcore, a company that specialises in hemp production, to research the possibility of using the material as the basis of car components. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/hemp.jpg\" alt=\"hemp car\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Defra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funding is being used to create new materials based on fibres from hemp and other plants such as flax and willow, to replace metals and oil-based plastics. The fibres are blended with polypropylene and the resulting mixture can then be moulded into whatever shape is required,&#8221; the article said.<\/p>\n<p>The use of such material would make the car more sustainable and easier to recycle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driving.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/driving\/article2076272.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Full article +<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has reported that Defra, the UK environment department, has struck a deal with Ford and Hemcore, a company that specialises in hemp production, to research the possibility of using the material as the basis of car components. &#8220;Defra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funding is being used to create new materials based on fibres from hemp and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,1,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-friendly","category-environment","category-miscellaneous","category-recycling","category-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}