Sentences with phrase «switch grass»

Such processes will allow production of fuel from switch grass and other dedicated energy crops.

Natural grass litters, such as those that use switch grass, are made from a plant that is not food related, and have a low price point.

Cuomo should invest in our future through community programs to train people in the solar, wind, geo - thermal heating and cooling industries as well as helping farmers raise food and bio fuels such as switch grass based bio fuels and algae based bio fuels.

But George W. Bush did make a half - hearted pitch for renewable energy — dropping a mention of switch grass into his 2006 State of the Union address — and he declared what was then the world's largest marine reserve on his way out of the White House.

Cuomo should invest in our future through community programs to train people in the solar, wind, geo thermal heating and cooling industries as well as helping farmers raise food and bio fuels such as switch grass based bio fuels and algae based bio fuels.

In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants such as switch grass into biofuels.

In addition to their findings on corn, they determined that making ethanol from switch grass requires 50 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol yields, wood biomass 57 percent more, and sunflowers 118 percent more.

Pepsi's bottle is made from bio-based materials including switch grass, pine bark and corn husks.

Don't expect oil companies to be supportive of Congressional appropriations in support of Switch Grass if it is felt that small - scale processing operations will have to be distributed throughout the nation's «grass belt.»

The critical piece of this effort is 1,000 acres of switch grass which will be planted near Guymon, Okla. in the state's panhandle.

We can be a beacon, a light to show the rest of the country how we can literally make our home grown energy, bio-fuel, using switch grass and algae based bio fuels.

This will require some technological breakthroughs since the production of ethanol from such sources as switch grass require the use of cellulosic enzymes whose economical production has not been perfected yet.

Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC), a state - initiative championed by Gov. Brad Henry, secured land to enable the planting of more than 1,100 acres of production - scale demonstration fields for cellulosic energy crops, such as switch grass and sorghum to contribute to the United States» bioenergy effort.

From big bluestem, blackeyed susan, Indian grass, switch grass, and much more the Arlington Heights Park District continues to restore natural habitats.

Growing algae for use in biofuels has a greater environmental impact than sources such as corn, switch grass and canola, researchers found in the first life - cycle assessment of algae growth.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Conover hopes that instead of using non-native invasive landscape plants like Chinese silvergrass, homeowners and horticulturists will use one of this area's beautiful native tall grasses such as prairie dropseed, little bluestem, big bluestem, switch grass or Indian grass because, «restoring the flora to its native species will enhance the biodiversity of native plants and the native animals, including butterflies that depend on them.»

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Biodiesel has been created from a variety of agricultural products including rapeseed and soybean oils, waste vegetable oil, switch grass, and animal fats.

And third, JRS's principles are centered on the idea of taking sustainable agricultural materials — whether it's wood, paper, switch grass, hemp or hay — and processing those materials into value - added products.»

This might come from sugar cane, wood chips, algae and switch grass.

Switch grass is the way to go.

Additional acreage of sorghum and switch grass will be planted near Chickasha and Maysville in central Oklahoma

By most reports, you'd think that the nation's future hangs on scale up of some secretly - developed, IPO - funded, car company - invested, chemical or biochemical cellulosic ethanol (Ceetoh) production process: whether the feed stock be wood chips or switch grass or whatever.

How much gas can Switch Grass switch, if we could switch gas with Switch Grass?

This switch grass field will be the first of its size anywhere in the world focused on biomass production.