MU professor helps to plant seeds for an advanced biofuel economy

Shibu Jose and his team believe that today’s soggy river bottoms could be untapped grounds for the largest advanced biofuel economy in the nation.

Jose, director for MU’s Center for Agroforestry, is proposing to cultivate and harvest biomass crops along the floodplains of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. He said converting less than 1 percent of the 116 million acres of “marginally productive” cropland in that region could create a corridor of sustainable biomass and biofuel production.

…Full text: www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2011/07/28/biofuel-corridor/

Keywords: switchgrass, short rotation crop, land use, cottonwood, willow, miscanthus grass, energy cane, sorghum, biomass, butanol, diesel, jet fuel, biorefineries, biorefinery, pellets, drop-in biofuel, feedstock, USA

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Missourian, 2011-07-28.

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University of Missouri

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