FiberWeed!
Shure, Carbon Fiber LOOKS awesome, but this is DOPE!
I was surfing the composite sites trying to find some less expensive Fiberglass and Cabon fiber fabric and ran across these guys.
http://www.netcomposites.com
They call it �hemp-wool�, but whatever you call it, we ALL know what it really is: FiberWeed.
Its really being used for car interiors.
Check it out:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1991
�Hemp, like flax, is also used in the interior trim for cars. �In this market, natural fibres have great appeal for manufacturers since they weigh only half as much as glass fibre, for which they are a substitute, and are half its price,� says the spokesperson for Chanvri�re de l�Aube. Similarly, the co-operative has recently turned its attention to rigid plastics. To enter this market, it formed, with Eurochanvre (a subsidiary of cereal growers� co-operative Interval, in the Haute-Sa�ne region), a company called Agro Fibres Technologies Plasturgie (or AFT Plasturgie).�
Cheech And Chong should have patented it, they�d be rich by now!
No, I mean REALLY rich.
They�re also investigating whether hemp could be used to make brake pads:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1998