New Biofuel Crops Cut Acres in Half
Aug. 6th, 2008 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerI've always said that corn is just a bridge crop until someone comes up with something a bit better. In the old days, they used to talk about Jerusalem artichokes as being a high gallon per acre crop. Now it's something called Miscanthus. Time will tell. We're still in the very early stages of all this.
Mix in some plugin hybrids powered by renewables and Bob's your uncle.
Miscanthus Shows Great Potential as Ethanol Feedstock - Renewable Energy World - 01 Aug 08
"Using corn or switchgrass to produce enough ethanol to offset 20 percent of gasoline use - a current White House goal - would take 25 percent of current U.S. cropland out of food production, the researchers report. Getting the same amount of ethanol from Miscanthus would require only 9.3 percent of current agricultural acreage."
Mix in some plugin hybrids powered by renewables and Bob's your uncle.
Miscanthus Shows Great Potential as Ethanol Feedstock - Renewable Energy World - 01 Aug 08
"Using corn or switchgrass to produce enough ethanol to offset 20 percent of gasoline use - a current White House goal - would take 25 percent of current U.S. cropland out of food production, the researchers report. Getting the same amount of ethanol from Miscanthus would require only 9.3 percent of current agricultural acreage."
