Grass as fuel
Switchgrass is a tall prairie grass that is being considered as a potential bio fuel source, namely for ethanol production. Switchgrass grows quickly and thrives in even the poorest of soil conditions and climates making it more desirable than corn.
Yes, you read correctly, grass as fuel. No, it's not slang. We are not going to manufacture alternative fuel from marijuana but rather a real prairie grass. Imagine a world with such a fast growing and renewable resource as the oxygen giving grass. Along the same idea as using corn only this resource has even more potential as an alternative fuel of the future. In fact, it's already being used and you may not even have realized it.
Switchgrass is a tall prairie grass that is being considered as a potential bio fuel source, namely for ethanol production. Switchgrass grows quickly and thrives in even the poorest of soil conditions and climates making it more desirable than corn.
Switchgrass is used to produce pellets for pellet stoves. You can burn these pellets in place of corn or wood pellets. This is the only form of switchgrass as a fuel at this time but there is more than 100 million dollars currently invested in researching it's value as a sustainable resource that can be used as a bio fuel.
Switchgrass biomass is broken down into glucose and xylose (sugars) in a biorefinery, which, when fermented becomes an ethanol not much different than that produced by corn. A huge advantage switchgrass has over corn is that it is perennial.
The Department of Energy will be looking to support those who wish to put up small biorefineries and/or grow switchgrass as a crop for ethanol production purposes. If this interests you, contact the Department of Energy.
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always interested to read about potential fuel sources - shame for those little kids in house on the prairie - where will they run when all the grass has gone!!