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Re: [RC] [RC] Ethanol from switchgrass? - ll cole

Here you go,  poo-poo power in Texas. I always knew they were full of it!!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/08/manure-powered.php

Barry Cole,  Kansas

From:  "Herrmann" <herm5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:  "Mary Howell" <mary.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  Re: [RC] Ethanol from switchgrass?
Date:  Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:32:44 -0500
I have an idea. . . . .why doesn't someone smart(that wouldn't be me),
figure out how to turn horse manure into ethanol?  It would then support all
of us distance addicts and all of our stuff!  We'd all be rich ta
boot!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nicole




--- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Howell" <mary.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:58 PM
Subject: [RC] Ethanol from switchgrass?


> A Northern Virginia politician recently published a column about
converting
> depleted croplands to ethanol producing crops. She said using corn to make
> ethanol is inefficient and mentioned switchgrass as a better crop,
producing
> "up to 1,000 gallons of ethanol per acre, with the residue used as biomass
> in methane generators to produce electricity."
>
> Anyone ever heard of this stuff? Is it like wheat?
>
> BTW, I've lived in Central VA almost 40 years and have never seen as many
> fields of corn as this year! Now that its over 5 feet tall and on both
sides
> of many of the rural roads, it's causing an issue with local deer.
Normally
> you can see large groups of them hanging out in the middle of fields
planted
> in low-profle crops like soybeans or wheat, but in the last few weeks
we've
> seen several disoriented deer pop out on the road with no warning.
>
> I'd heard our local biodisel plant in West Point (that Prez Bush visited
in
> 05) fronted the cost of putting this large corn crops in the ground for
> farmers short on cash. Good news is that even if another Hurricane Isabel
> comes along, the crop will still be salvageable for biodiesel use.
>
>
>
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