Switchgrass is nothing less than amazing!
BBC News reports on a new study, Grass biofuels ‘cut CO2 by 94%’.
| Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass delivers vast savings of carbon dioxide emissions compared with petrol, a large-scale study has suggested.
A team of US researchers also found that switchgrass-derived ethanol produced 540% more energy than was required to manufacture the fuel. One acre (0.4 hectares) of the grassland could, on average, deliver 320 gallons of bioethanol, they added. |
This is good news for the United States in so many ways:
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Fewer CO2 emissions – 94% is almost “carbon neutral”
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540% EROEI – Growing “energy independence”
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Better than corn and soy – Less need for harmful herbicides and pesticides, such as Atrazine
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Native prairie grass – Improves local biodiversity
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Plant once – Reduces erosion and farm fuel consumption