Switchgrass: The Super Plant Savior?

President Touts Alternative Fuel Ingredient, But When Will It Be Ready?

Feb. 1, 2006

Close, but how close? Bush’s goal is to increase research into the production of ethanol using such elements as grass and wood chips, which could make it a cost-effective energy source by 2012. The White House says ethanol could potentially amount to 30 percent of the nation’s current fuel use.

But some who work in the industry say the research is already well under way, and what’s really needed is a commercial plant to convert switchgrass to ethanol on a large scale.

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