Radiation is the number one problem that NASA faces in space exploration outside of Earth’s magnetosphere.

Radiation risk management for human space missions depends on slowing or stopping high-energy heavy ions and nuclear fragmentation in matter, reducing both the physical dose and the biological effects of the radiation encountered in deep space.
Hydrogenous materials and light elements are more effective shields against the harmful effects of cosmic rays than aluminum, which is used in current spacecraft hulls. NASA has chosen polyethylene, CH2, as the reference material for accelerator-based radiation testing of multi-function composites that are currently being developed.

Polyethylene is a good shielding material because it has high hydrogen content, and hydrogen atoms are good at absorbing and dispersing radiation. Not only that, it’s strong, can be strengthened with hemp fiber, Kevlar or other materials and may even provide excellent protection from meteorites.

Polyethylene shielding is too heavy for space ships that launch from the ground. For future exploration to be feasible, ships will need to be built and fitted with shielding in space.

Since ships will be built in space, and large quantities of polyethylene material will be essential for building ships, it would be logical to explore producing the raw materials in space.

Imagine growing hemp in space on space stations to produce shielding or even entire ship hulls from bio-polyethylene.

Another error, or rather misinformation.
“…while metals take thousands of years to form.”
Metals don’t form. They are either there, or not. The earth has a limited number of metal resources. We might some future day, many milennia down the road, be able to mine metals from other moons, or planets. but the only way they form is by the Creator.

I’m all for alternative fuels, and resurces uses to fuel our desires for modern mechanization. However, please let’s share responsibly with the general public. They often will believe everything they read and are not well read. Then the misinformation is spread as fact, and there is no changing their minds. Let’s eductae them properly.

Btw, in North Carolina there is a strong movement of using recycled vegetable oils convereted to biofuel. I’d love to see more of that occurig nationwide on a more “industrial” level.

did you even read the story?

Hemp bio-diesel can run in any conventional combustion engine, although for most models a 5$ hose has to be installed easily at home.

lmfao my Bmw wouldn’t run right on this