[FoRK] "Using switchgrass as a biofuel yields five times more energy than is used to grow it."

[Tom Higgins]

I have seen references to this and have heard of it being looked back
in  South Dakota (home of our farm)

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080107/full/news.2008.415.html

"Switchgrass, a prairie grass that sways around the borders of many US
fields, offers 540% more energy than the energy sown into it, research
has shown. The renewable fuel should be seriously considered as a
low-greenhouse-gas, high-energy biofuel source, the researchers say."

Article continues at link above

-tom(grassamatic)higgins