Switchgrass is one of them,” said Mike Zock of MKB Company, a Pennsylvania-based startup that in just two years has become the biggest seller of switchgrass silt socks in the eastern United States.

Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by ...

Switchgrass is a perennial grass native to much of the prairie. It grows extremely quickly, sometimes up to 2.2 metres tall. It grows on land not considered suitable for food crops, yielding about ...

Introducing a special corn gene into switchgrass was found to significantly boost the viability of the switchgrass biomass as a feedstock crop for advanced biofuels. The gene, a variant of the ...

Switchgrass is the perennial wonder plant touted by President Bush in Tuesday's State of the Union address and in his remarks made today in Nashville, Tenn., where he joked that he could have a ...

Miscanthus bests switchgrass as biofuel source Miscanthus bests switchgrass as biofuel source mongabay.com July 11, 2007 In a side-by-side comparison, miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus) grass has ...

Switchgrass, unlike corn, is a low-resource perennial plant. This not only saves on replanting costs—switchgrass stands are expected to last for 20 years—but also allows its root system to stay in the ...

Using coal, it would cost $31.03 to generate each megawatt of electricity, but using switchgrass briquettes would cost $154.62, and switchgrass cubes would cost $156.52.

Whether switchgrass has what it takes to compete with the powerful political and commercial interests behind corn remains to be seen. 1: PNAS, 2008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702958104 2: PNAS, 2008.

When President Bush spoke during his State of the Union address about turning something called “switchgrass” into a future source of ethanol, thus reducing the United States’ dependence on ...