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Old Dec 27, 2006 | 11:12 AM
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Thumbs up Switchgrass

This looks promising:

http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/switgrs.html

It looks like a good deal to me. Now if they'd come along with their cellulose to ethanol technology, we would all be further ahead. Plus, off topic, the switchgrass would probably make excellent habitat for certain species of birds that I like to hunt....

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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 05:07 AM
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Old news, they have been working with that for many years. The trick is converting the cellulose to alcohol etc.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 12:26 PM
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there have been some guys at Oklahoma state university working on switchgrass to ehtenol for many years they have gotten the price down to about $2.80 a gallon. but is is hard to produce in large quantities
 
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 12:58 PM
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Hope you can see this link:
http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/vie...MDSite&catId=0
 
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