More and more people are seeing the light…the light that biomass is powering.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-21-voa51.cfm
Readers of this blog will know that we believe biomass is efficient, effective and domestic. And that makes it a much better source of energy than foreign oil. Now, we are learning that biomass is a much better source of alternative energy than ethanol.
As this Voice of America report says:
“In a study published this week in the journal Science, researchers compared the energy efficiency of liquid ethanol made from corn and bioelectricity made from switchgrass, a wild, woody perennial, drought-resistant grass that can be grown in marginal or abandoned farmland.”
According to one of the researchers: “What we found is that if you burn this biomass to make electricity to power electric vehicles you can get a lot more transportation and a lot more greenhouse gas offsets than if you converted it to ethanol.”
Biomass works. This research proves it yet again. Now is the time to put it to work for all of us.
