On Friday 2008-01-11 12:04, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Lance A. Brown wrote: > >Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for > >other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. > > To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's > grass; it doesn't require nearly the same kind of care that more > traditional food crops do. And I recall the article indicated that > unlike those crops, it doesn't need replanting every year. If they > can work around the cellulouse issues, I think it's very promising. > > Jim
I think that the whole US cellulosic ethanol project must be driven almost entirely by *energy security* not global warming. If you really wanted to combat global warming you would replace coal (the most carbiniferous energy source) with cellulose and sequester the cellulose fuel's CO2. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
