Comments on: How To Choose What To Plant For Biofuel http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/09/how-to-choose-what-to-plant-for-biofuel/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Bryan http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/09/how-to-choose-what-to-plant-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-5494 Bryan Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:05:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=7450#comment-5494 So from this article and my own intelligence its seems fairly correct to conclude that the problem is not biofuels or these specific plants themselves, but the problem is monoculture and the industrialization of horticultural practices, and in some instances the inappropriate habitat location of certain species. If the only current way to create biofuels being studied is from a centralized/commercialized and largely industrialized process then this is also part of the problem. Biofuel production technology needs to be innovated in such a way that it serves individuals and small locally based cooperatives in meeting their energy needs from their own immediate plant/ecosystem based resources with out any necessity or dependence on fossil fuel based shipping/transportation or unethical business/monetary hierarchical structures. So from this article and my own intelligence its seems fairly correct to conclude that the problem is not biofuels or these specific plants themselves, but the problem is monoculture and the industrialization of horticultural practices, and in some instances the inappropriate habitat location of certain species.

If the only current way to create biofuels being studied is from a centralized/commercialized and largely industrialized process then this is also part of the problem.

Biofuel production technology needs to be innovated in such a way that it serves individuals and small locally based cooperatives in meeting their energy needs from their own immediate plant/ecosystem based resources with out any necessity or dependence on fossil fuel based shipping/transportation or unethical business/monetary hierarchical structures.

]]> By: T. Leigh Havlik http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/09/how-to-choose-what-to-plant-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-5386 T. Leigh Havlik Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:55:17 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=7450#comment-5386 Wonderful to hear that Sweet Sorghum had an acceptable scoring. It's been cultivated for a long time in the U.S. for the production of Sorghum Syrup, so that gives somewhat of a baseline for how it will perform as a successful biofuel crop. I've been working over the past year on SORGANOL and am in the process of updating the website and starting a blog. SORGANOL is a process that utilizes the SorCane Harvester and Mobile BioRefinery Unit to produce Hydrated Fuel Ethanol right on the farm. The process is sustainable, carbon neutral and economical. The harvester presses out the juice, feeds it into a tank wagon and lays pressed stalks back on the field. This resolves the problems of biomass transport. It's a brilliant concept designed by Mr. Lee McClune of Knoxville, Iowa. Wonderful to hear that Sweet Sorghum had an acceptable scoring. It’s been cultivated for a long time in the U.S. for the production of Sorghum Syrup, so that gives somewhat of a baseline for how it will perform as a successful biofuel crop. I’ve been working over the past year on SORGANOL and am in the process of updating the website and starting a blog. SORGANOL is a process that utilizes the SorCane Harvester and Mobile BioRefinery Unit to produce Hydrated Fuel Ethanol right on the farm. The process is sustainable, carbon neutral and economical. The harvester presses out the juice, feeds it into a tank wagon and lays pressed stalks back on the field. This resolves the problems of biomass transport. It’s a brilliant concept designed by Mr. Lee McClune of Knoxville, Iowa.

]]> By: Advanced BioFuels USA » How To Choose What To Plant For Biofuel http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/09/how-to-choose-what-to-plant-for-biofuel/comment-page-1/#comment-5369 Advanced BioFuels USA » How To Choose What To Plant For Biofuel Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:11:43 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=7450#comment-5369 [...] other species were rated as likely to become invasive, and the last needed further evaluation.  READ MORE Full [...] [...] other species were rated as likely to become invasive, and the last needed further evaluation.  READ MORE Full [...]

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