[SGVLUG] Because we have talked about this before.

[matti]

--- Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, from slashdot.
> 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1847256
> 
> USDA and farmers took part in a 5-year study of switchgrass, a grass
> native to North America. The study found that switchgrass ethanol can
> deliver around 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, as
> opposed to corn ethanol which can only yield around 24 percent. 

Holy Cr#p!

so we blow 4 units of energy to produce 1 unit?

dang!!
matti





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