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
How much private land is there that could be converted from lower yield to cellulose production? Could ex-farms on the Montana and Dakota prairies be put back into production as cellulose ranches? (In AZ we can grow agave on some private ranch land.) In the US the environmental lobby would prevent public land being leased for cellulose ranching. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
