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To: OXENinFLA

Someone developed a grass that grows meters tall and makes smashing good fuel for power generation. I think it's called switchgrass.


2,978 posted on 01/31/2006 6:49:42 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) believes that biofuels—made from crops of native grasses, such as fast- growing switchgrass—could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil, curb emissions of the "greenhouse gas" carbon dioxide, and strengthen America's farm economy. The Biofuels Feedstock Development Program (BFDP) at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has assembled a team of scientists ranging from economists and energy analysts to plant physiologists and geneticists to lay the groundwork for this new source of renewable energy. Included are researchers at universities, other national laboratories, and agricultural research stations around the nation. Their goal, according to ORNL physiologist Sandy McLaughlin, who leads the switchgrass research effort, is nothing short of building the foundation for a biofuels industry that will make and market ethanol and other biofuels from switchgrass and at prices competitive with fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel.
3,106 posted on 01/31/2006 6:53:44 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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