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Ethanol Produced from Perennial Grass Could Offset 20% of Gas Use with 9.3% of Cropland

Submitted by TreeHugger on Thursday, 31 July 2008No Comment

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For all the talk of switchgrass being the next miracle biofuel feedstock, there’s still precious little to show for it. Yes, we did recently report on a study which showed that switchgrass could potentially yield 5 times more energy than was used to grow it and, yes, there are several companies that are working hard to bring cellulosic ethanol to market. Yet, for all its purported merits, we aren’t likely to see it become commercially available for another few years.

That opening is giving other…

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