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从架子上拿了些看似食用油的东西， 倒进了一辆小型柴油拖拉机里。
引擎第一次就启动了， 毫无迟疑，没有咳嗽，也没有黑烟。
我在那站了15分钟等着它熄火， 但它一直没熄。当我问他
在哪里买的燃料时，他看着我， 就像我问了兰开斯特县最愚蠢的问 题。
他指向谷仓后面的一片田， 说：“我自己种的。”那一刻，一切都
改变了。这种植物是汉麻，工业大麻， 也就是大麻。我现在需要明确
一些事情，因为汉麻和大麻之间的混 淆 是蓄意
制造出来的。工业大麻的THC含量低于 0.3%。 这就是...
精神活性化合物。 你就算抽掉一整捆工业大麻，也只会 觉得
喉咙痛。2018年的《农业法案》 使在联邦层面种植、加工、运输和销 售
工业大麻在美国任何地方都是合法 的。 它和玉米一样合法，和大豆一样合法 ，
和小麦一样合法。 但在该联邦法案出台前的80年里，大 麻一直被视同
毒品。 而其中的原因与任何人想要变嗨毫 无关系。这完全
与燃料和金钱有关。对于那些拥有这 两样东西 比美国任何人都多的人，让我
先从这种植物的实际作用说起。 因为一旦你明白了这一点，故事的其 余部分
会让你感到愤怒。大麻籽的含油量 大约占其重量的30%到35%。这种油可 以被
通过简单的冷榨提取， 就像人们榨橄榄油或葵花籽油的榨 油机一样。
一旦你得到了这种油， 就可以通过一个基本的化学过程将 其转化为生物柴油，该过程称为
酯交换反应。你将大麻籽油 与甲醇和少量的碱液混合，
它起到了催化剂的作用。混合物发生 反应。 它分成了两层。上层是
粗生物柴油。下层是甘油， 你可以用它来做肥皂。你清洗
生物柴油，用水洗净并晾干， 就可以倒入任何生产出来的柴油发 动机中。
不是改装过的发动机，不是特殊的发 动机， 而是任何柴油发动机。因为柴油发动 机根本就不是
最初设计以石油为燃料的， 鲁道夫·狄塞尔在19世纪90年代制造 他的发动机，在
德国。他在1892年2月28日申请了专利。 他的论文题目是《理论与
替代蒸汽机的合理热力发动机的结 构》。他称之为压燃式
发动机。他设想的燃料是货架上的植 物油，并倒入了一些看起来像
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Original transcript (English)
shelf and poured something that looked like cooking oil into a small diesel tractor. The engine turned over on the first try, no hesitation, no cough, no black smoke. I stood there for 15 minutes waiting for it to stall. It never did. And when I asked him where he bought the fuel, he looked at me like I had asked the dumbest question in Lancaster County. He pointed to a field behind the barn. I grew it, he said. That was the moment everything
changed for me. The plant is hemp, industrial hemp, cannabis sativa. And I need to be clear about something right now, because the confusion between hemp and marijuana was manufactured on purpose. Industrial hemp contains less than three-tenths of one percent THC. That is the psychoactive compound. You could smoke an entire bale of industrial hemp and feel nothing but a sore throat. The 2018 Farm Bill made it federally legal to grow, process, transport, and sell
industrial hemp anywhere in the United States. It is as legal as corn, as legal as soybeans, as legal as wheat. But for 80 years before that federal bill, hemp was treated the same as a narcotic. And the reason had absolutely nothing to do with anyone getting high. It had everything to do with fuel and money. And for men who had more of both than anyone else in America, let me start with what one plant actually does. Because once you understand this, the rest of the story
will make you angry. Hemp seeds contain roughly 30 to 35 percent oil by weight. That oil can be extracted with a simple cold press, the same kind of press people use for olive oil or sunflower oil. Once you have the oil, it can be converted into biodiesel through a basic chemical process called transesterification. You mix the hemp seed oil with methanol and a small amount of lye, which acts as a catalyst. The mixture reacts. It separates into two layers. The top layer is
raw biodiesel. The bottom layer is glycerin, which you can use to make soap. You wash the biodiesel with water, let it dry, and it is ready to pour into any diesel engine ever manufactured. Not a modified engine, not a special engine, any diesel engine. Because the diesel engine was never designed to run on petroleum in the first place, Rudolf Diesel built his engine in the 1890s in Germany. He filed his patent on the 28th of February, 1892. His paper was titled Theory and
Construction of a Rational Heat Engine to Replace the Steam Engine. He called it a compression ignition engine. The fuel he envisioned was plant oil off a shelf and poured something that looked
