That’s lab scale vs industrial scale. The top would be using bio reactors, the bottom a giant aerated pile
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It would be interesting to see this in action. The pleurotus genus comprises most oyster mushrooms, which are tasty food. Trametes Versicolor isn’t an edible, but contains some great compounds of interest for their anti cancer and immune boosting properties. I have made a really earthy and tasty decoction of these and reshi that I wild harvested, good for the health and adding flavor to food. Mushrooms that digest woody material come in two types, ones that feed on cellulose, and ones that feed on lignin. There could be many more options of different species to digest the lignin that could also give the benefit of gourmet or medicinal mushrooms as a byproduct.
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@Future For your “Biopulping Draft Proposal” - who is the intended audience? Are you planning to privately pitch/get investment for the RnD facility, or rather a university, etc?
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The facility, the money, and the biomass already exist. I just need to organized a plan of attack and present it to them
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@Future I read the two whitepapers you posted. What are the uses of the lingin free product you would be making?
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Clean cellulose is ideal for paper pulp
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@Future do you envision in the future mega processing facilities using every aspect of the plant? IE, usable spent biomass like you show above, lipids/chlorophyll/sugars as their own product and stalks for rope/feed, etc.? Feels inevitable at scale and may be the key to profitability at some point.
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Are you attached to bio versus chem?
Ya I’m not interested in using the Kraft process.
There’s a company out of canada with a machine that runs a few million dollars, but it harvests hemp and separate stalk, seed, and flower, into separate bins, all while driving through a field like a standard combine. One was purchased in PA I believe. I’m leaning towards that as the future of the hemp industry, with appropriate processing to follow.
Edit: this machine does not operate like a combine as pointed out below.
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That would be canadian greenfield technologies, purchased by groff north america in lancaster.
Definitely not biopulping though.
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True, but I think it’s the harvest tech that will allow for a split industry on one farm. Thanks for the name, it was driving me nuts hah.
*this isn’t a combine, rather a stationary processor with multiple product outputs.
There are a few combines out there though…
My mistake on the mobility, i blended two products. Thanks for the correction.
Do you think the quality of the pulp used to make the paper would vary if you used differing ratios of fan leaves, spent flower, stems, and stalks? Should you avoid using one or the other? I was thinking stems and stalks would be the best choice. We extract our flower with ethanol so I was also curious if the degradation of the plant cells would be good and help for more clean cellulose recovery or if it would degrade the cellulose. I know you can produce ethanol from cellulose so if thats possible under the presence of ethanol I feel like that wouldn’t be a good thing for your pulp purity.
cellulose is not affected by ethanol.
in order to make ethanol from cellulose, it needs to be converted to fermentable sugars. using cellulase(s).
more light reading
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Thank you for putting me on the right path. My biological knowledge is limited but I’m doing my best to learn as much as possible.
Hello me again! Just wondering if you have looked into making bottles, preferably clear, that were biodegradable. I saw sugar cane ones and others that are made to hold olive oil but why not ones that hold our flower and derivative products! It said it was even made with the pulp leftover after extraction which is what we are already after. This will be another avenue of research for me but any clues would be helpful!
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wondering who you mean by “you” 
maybe chat with these guys
they’re making plastic.
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Yous guys in here, ya know? I think what I have learned is the key word I should be searching with is Biomass. This shall get me deeper into the rabbit hole. Ill for sure reach out to those guys and see what they have to offer me in my search for sustainable packaging. As always thank you for your continued support!