Switchgrass Study

Switchgrass-to-biofuel interview now in last year; Conquering stands are self-important than three feet tall; no harvesting for now

September 14, 2009 (AP via MSNBC)

"...[R]esearchers in the Oklahoma Panhandle...[hope] to detect if making ethanol from switchgrass is help useful...[and if] small-scale experiments of by the use of the tall, flimsy foster native to the Dedicated Plains to consequence ethanol can be duplicated on a large scale...[and if nation] concerned in its production may perhaps consequence a virtuous...[C]ellulosic ethanol is crude days not at home from commercial use, like a house on fire at the smooth of par corn-based ethanol... Ethanol, an alcohol obtained from the fermentation of sugars and starches, is recycled as an additive to or a lever for petroleum-based fuels.

"The 2.2 million [1,000 acre] assessment, a project of the Oklahoma Bioenergy Source...began conduct rendezvous behind the planting of switchgrass on three fields [some unsophisticated, some just this minute harvested, some irrigated, some not, by the use of 4 different types of seeds, is] secretive Guymon, a resolution 100 miles north of Amarillo, Texas..."

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"Separate lump, switchgrass doesn't need to be replanted each rendezvous. It along with takes smaller amount tractor fuel and dung to manufacture, can be disposed on marginal maintain and doesn't require as considerably mere...[and] switchgrass isn't recycled for food...[which] form it wouldn't spirits up grocery prices...a sticking plane in the wide-scale production of corn-based ethanol...Fiber, the main measurement in a foster cell's walls, is the utmost memorable unsophisticated numerous in the world...

"The nation's [2007] renewable fuel typical [calls for 11.1 billion gallons of renewable fuel to be blended at home oil in 2009 and 36 billion gallons by 2022, ensuring] literal...[T]hat typical caps the detriment of [lump] ethanol...at 15 billion gallons in 2015. By 2022, 16 billion gallons control to refurbish from cellulosic feedstocks..."

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"...[T]he type of feedstocks recycled in production of cellulosic biofuels may perhaps differ by realm...switchgrass [is] convenient in the Dedicated Plains, wood chips may perhaps be recycled in the Soothing Northwest...[A May EPA examination manner] the production of 900 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass is prudently reachable by 2022...[utmost from] Oklahoma...[and some] from West Virginia and New Hampshire.

"...The [3 varieties of] effective switchgrass...are now 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall, and researchers crude won't cut the grass this rendezvous. In the improve on rendezvous at the back planting, concerning a part to a third of the switchgrass stand's eventual manage can be harvested. That production jumps to concerning two-thirds at the back the last rendezvous and 100 percent at the back the third rendezvous, which would be 2011...Abengoa Bioenergy Corp., the North American fragment of a existence based in Spain, strategy to come first scaffold hurried as soon as rendezvous on a 300 million biorefinery in Hugoton, Kan., concerning 35 miles from Guymon. Completion is aimed by hurried 2012..."