Trent Shipley wrote: > 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.)
I dunno. We should note that high-yield switchgrass cultivation requires tending and fertilizing the grass. "Natural" growth will not yield enough product to be economical. The research I linked to previously *does* include the energy cost for the tending and fertlizing in the cost-benefit ratio, so it's still a good thing. --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
