[decimon]

Ridgerunner revival.

[Glenn]

Kudzu. God’s own curse on the south.

[Figment]

“And since this ethanol isn't corn or soy based, it won't impact food prices”

To be commercially harvestible, it will have to take up land now used for food. We have a lot of kudzu in the south but it grows in ravines and on hillsides.Quit screwing around with ethanol and start drilling more oil

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[beckysueb]

That would be good. I absolutely hate kudzu! It is growing behind the fence on state property behind my house. We battle it everyday. It just won’t go away. It is very fast growing and kills everything in its path. Horrible stuff.

[Paladin2]

Yabut, will the total mass of Kudzu in the South be reduced or will the increased CO2 just fertilize it?

[Ditter]

I wanted to ask last week if anyone though it was possible to use this cursed vine for fuel but I didn’t think I knew how to spell Kudzu. I should have asked because KUDZU is the way I would have spelled it.

[Gritty]

... the new American oil patch?

[mjp]

The thick woody vines can be used along with coal for the production of
steam in electrical power plants. Kudzu has half the heating value as
coal and very low sulfur content, and could be useful as a partial local
solution to air pollution and energy conservation

[CORedneck]

Kudzu, a gift that keeps on giving !

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping

Southern ingenuity: finally a solution for kudzu

[deport]

Seems they are coming out of the woodwork with various methods to supplement the energy supply. Hopefully some of these methods will prove to be economically viable.

A Baytown businessman could hold the solution to the nation's energy crisis

In an economy that has been held hostage by oil prices rapidly approaching the stratosphere, this Baytown-based alternate energy company has found a way to make substantial amounts of crude oil from farm waste.

Now Rivera must convince potential investors that his trade secret - 21 years and $31 million dollars in the making - isn't just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

The "Rivera Method" - takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude - or Vertroleum, as Rivera calls it - can then be refined further into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between.

What's more, Rivera claims that products made from Vertroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place.

[wardaddy]

the envirowackbots will whine now about increased soil erosion

[rrrod]

Those of you outside the south have no idea how much we hate kudzu!

[Charlespg]

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