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Study: Miscanthus More Than Twice as Productive as Switchgrass for Energy Crop
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| 07/11/2007
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Posted on 07/12/2007 8:28:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Looks like the grass in my yard........
To: sully777; Fierce Allegiance; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; ...
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:29:19 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: Red Badger
Don't worry honey... I'll mow next week... I promise!
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:30:31 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOM IS SLAVERY / DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH)
To: Red Badger
I just planted this in my yard (got tired of feeding the deer with everything else). Now I have my own “Green Gold!”
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:30:49 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:32:04 AM PDT
by
krb
(If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
To: Red Badger
The grass in my yard is whatever my neighbors half a mile in all directions have seeded their lawns with. There must be twenty varities. They all grow very quickly for a few days and then stop. If there is a way to program grass growth so some is always in this rapid growth phase there could be a never-ending supply of biomass. That stuff is over and done in a week.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:32:33 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: Red Badger
If we are going to use biofuels this is the only way that makes sense. Using corn is idiotic.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:33:50 AM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: krb
She can’t be hot. She’s standing in the shade.......
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:36:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: RightWhale
It’s not just growth but the right stuff to turn into ethanol........If it was just growth, kudzu would be perfect........
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:38:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: 6ppc
Using corn is idiotic. Not everybody is aware that all corn is engineered and Monsanto is already working on hybrid specials for the ethanol process.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:40:10 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: Red Badger
In order to be feasible it would need to generate, at a bare minimum, about 10 times as many gallons of ethanol per acre than corn does.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:42:38 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
(Keep your friends close; keep your enemies at optimal engagement range)
To: Red Badger
We don’t have kudzu, but we have vetch. Bumper crop this year. Totally useless but looks nice from a distance of 200 yards.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:42:58 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: RightWhale
You don’t have kudzu.....now........but you will eventually......It’s slowly covering the entire planet............
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:46:34 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: RightWhale
In addition, most people think that we have a realistic way to crack cellulose. Until that problem is solved, all we can do with this grass is burn it or feed it to cows.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:46:55 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded, etc, etc.")
To: krb
If you look carefully, there’s some tall grass growing in the background.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:47:56 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
To: RightWhale
We dont have kudzu, but we have vetch. Bumper crop this year. Totally useless but looks nice from a distance of 200 yards. It's not totally useless. It's a legume and fixes nitrogen, so therefore it's good for the soil. It can be made into hay (it ain't alfalfa, but it's got some protein). Also, it makes a seed that ground birds such as quail like to eat.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:50:58 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Red Badger
Kudzu is the goatherder’s friend. Fence it off and turn ‘em loose...they’ll eat it down to the dirt, and continue to chomp every successive shoot that comes up. Kudzu is great fodder, and over time the goats’ll kill it if you’ve got a high enough density of goats on the plot.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:53:44 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Oberon
It makes a cool noise when its seed pods are popping. Although I have tried, not recently, I have not been able to actually see a seed pod open. The vetch is an import by DOT about 1994 from Pennsylvania for one of its highway projects. From there it has been spread everywhere that cars go, such as past my yard. It’s a climbing vine of sorts and drags weaker plants to the ground.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:55:59 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: VanShuyten
In addition, most people think that we have a realistic way to crack cellulose. Good old-fashioned pyrolysis works, if you don't mind the end product being methanol.
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posted on
07/12/2007 8:59:18 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Red Badger
It’s not just growth but the right stuff to turn into ethanol..... Ethanol is a terrible fuel. And with current technology, plants high in sugar or starch would be best. I doubt that any of the grasses would be good for it.
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posted on
07/12/2007 9:00:36 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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