« Salt Lake City Mayor To Staff: Bottled Water is Bad for the Environment | Main | University Solar Panel Installation Supports Commitment to Renewables »

Alternative Biofuel Crops Research




Texas A&M's biofuel research will focus efforts on crops that can generate high-tonnage biomass for biofuel. Insights are provided by Dr. Bill McCutchen, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. ... Dr. Bill McCutchen, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station photo by Kay Ledbetter
... "As an example of such alternatives are sorghum cultivars that have been bred to produce either a high tonnage of biomass or high sugar content, McCutchen said. One sorghum, developed by Dr. Bill Rooney, Experiment Station plant breeder, can produce from 15 to 20 dry tons of biomass per acre, McCutchen said. " ...

Via Texas A&M University: Research in Review (PDF)

 

Post Details


Posted by Green Tech on August 9, 2007 09:22 PM | |





Category: Farming



TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/710

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)