| I'm opposed to corn-ethanol subsidies for these reasons, but I'm open to switchgrass and other alternatives. |
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| They'll also cover new opportunities for earning income from farmland, such as carbon sequestration and growing switchgrass as a biofuel crop. |
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| More energy was also required to produce fuels from switchgrass, wood chips, and sunflower plants than their respective fuels generate. |
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| For example, a common warm season mixture consists of Indiangrass, big bluestem, and switchgrass. |
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| In southwestern Missouri, switchgrass and caucasian bluestem are used by beef producers to supplement the tall fescue. |
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| Growing switchgrass, one of the new papers in Science shows, creates a carbon debt of 52 years. |
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| These include products made from the switchgrass and wood chips mentioned in President Bush's address. |
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| Examples include plastics made from soybeans, building materials made from corn stalks and fuels made from switchgrass. |
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| Cellulosic using data from Wang's study for ligno-cellulosic ethanol produced from switchgrass. |
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| The switchgrass will be burned with coal to produce electricity. |
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| They can also include forest industry biomass and hardy, biomass-intensive grasses such as switchgrass. |
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| The varieties in view are herbaceous plants such as miscanthus or switchgrass and trees such as the poplar, the willow or the locust tree. |
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| Special energy crops such as hybrid poplar, willow and switchgrass can be grown in plantations. |
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| Another potential fuel source under study by Iowa State researchers is switchgrass, a native warm-season grass that once thrived in the tall grass prairies. |
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| This is the case for low yield crops such as switchgrass grown on marginal land. |
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| At least in theory, nickel and cobalt could replace platinum, sand might replace copper, and switchgrass could replace Saudi oil. |
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| Corn stover, switchgrass and wood chips are some of the more popular materials being used for ethanol production. |
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| One example is switchgrass being developed for use on marginal, highly erodible lands. |
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| Instead, energy crops like switchgrass, where the whole plant is used, should be prioritized. |
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| Both alfalfa and switchgrass can also be burned to generate electricity. |
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| Biomass production and soil nutrient removal by switchgrass grown for biofuel production. |
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| Because of its high biomass yields, switchgrass is considered a good candidate for dedicated energy crops. |
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| A lone bacterium, genetically tweaked, can demolish switchgrass and ferment the sugary rubble to ethanol in one fell swoop. |
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| In contrast, whole plant crops like corn silage converted to biograss or switchgrass converted to pellets can produce 120 to 140 gigajoules per hectare of net energy gain. |
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| These nematodes have previously been reported to cause damage to several plant species such as corn, bent grass, switchgrass, and turf grasses. |
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| Development and characterization of microsatelliates for switchgrass rust fungus. |
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| The various alternative fuels, low emission fuels, can be produced from animal waste, plant waste and agricultural waste, such as straw, husks, wood waste from sawmills, switchgrass and cellulose waste. |
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| Department of Energy to produce PHB in switchgrass to co-produce densified biomass for fuel and to produce value-added crotonic acid. |
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| Prairie-like polycultures using edible perennial crops and biofuel feedstock plants like switchgrass would make ploughing and planting over winter obsolete. |
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| Moreover, even though switchgrass and other plants can be grown in places outside the Midwest, Iowans will benefit from the fact that leftover corn stalks can also be used for cellulosic ethanol. |
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| Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried. |
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| It is evident that the greatest amount of renewable energy production can be realized by using bioconversion technologies that use whole plant energy crops such as switchgrass or whole plant corn. |
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| Biofuels from switchgrass, if they replace croplands and other carbon-absorbing lands, would result in 50 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers concluded. |
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| On the other hand, growing switchgrass or similar crops on marginal land could bring further value to this land and to the economy through the use of such feedstock in biorefineries. |
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| Cellulosic ethanol can be manufactured from products such as switchgrass, wood shavings and wood chips, byproducts left over from our forestry industry. |
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| Speed the transition from corn based ethanol to sustainable biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol made from wood chips, agriculture waste, and switchgrass. |
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| Metabolix is also developing a proprietary platform technology for co-producing plastics, chemicals and energy, from crops such as switchgrass, oilseeds and sugarcane. |
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| Cellulosic ethanol using agricultural waste products or crops like switchgrass shows more promise, but demand for raw materials and the resulting impact on soils and waters will need to be carefully managed. |
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| A biochar is produced as a co-product of pyrolyzing cellulOsic materials such as switchgrass. |
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| Two species, switchgrass and giant miscanthus, are of interest as dedicated energy crops as both have great biomass production potential. |
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| Big bluestem, little bluestem, blue grama, Indian grass, and switchgrass have all been observed to increase after a spring burn. |
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| The higher heating value of sunn hemp biomass exceeded that of switchgrass, Bermuda grass, reed canarygrass, and alfalfa. |
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| The hope for the future is biofuels produced from cellulosic feedstocks such as corn stover, switchgrass, miscanthus, and woody crops. |
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| In 2012, BP shut down the BP Biofuels Highlands project which was developed since 2008 to make cellulosic ethanol from emerging energy crops like switchgrass and from biomass. |
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| Pathogenicity of urediniospores collected from infected leaves was evaluated on 14 to 28 day-old Alamo switchgrass established from surface disinfested seed. |
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| The development of nonflowering switchgrass varieties would eliminate the possibility that transgenes could escape into the environment and contaminate non-transgene plants. |
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| Switchgrass is another product that could produce power for utilities and serve as a new cash crop. |
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| It contains a mix of Big Bluestem, Switchgrass, Indian Grass, Virginia Wild Rye, Partridge Pea, New England Aster, and Maximillian Sunflower seeds. |
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