Ecofibre's Industrial Hemp Fibre Production Guide. 2. Hemp is a 4 m tall annual, daylight sensitive, fibrous plant. It is a summer crop, grown for Fibre, Grain & Oilseed in many countries. There are over 2,000 lines, with low THC.
That cost gap has narrowed, however. With better screens and technology that helps the plants power themselves by recycling the energy used to suck in water-in a way, like a hybrid car regenerates power from its own motion-the typical cost of running desalination plants can dip below $2,000 an acre-foot.
At a high level, the common costs for every location were $3,072, plus a variable cost per mile of outside plant. Broadly speaking, the total cost per home ranged from more than $20,000 per location to about $5,000 per location, for densities of up to about 2.5 homes per linear plant mile.