11 January 2008

New ways to screw the Middle East

Scientists, those wacky guys, are figuring out how to get biofuel out of switchgrass. According to this article, the grass is nearly twenty times as efficient as corn: "Switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol."

Rico says it can't happen too soon...

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