Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels - TopicsExpress



          

Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels bit.ly/eekxlt carmendrahl writes "The abundance of shale gas in the U.S. is expected to lower the cost of petrochemicals for fuel and other applications, making it harder for plant-based, renewable feedstocks to compete in terms of price. In the search for cost-competitive crops, companies are testing plants other than traditional biofuel sources such as corn and sugarcane. In this video, you can see how a company is test-growing a relative of sugarcane, which is expected to yield 5 times the ethanol per acre compared to corn." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:50:33 +0000

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