The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 212, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... planting 50 million acres of fallow land with perennial grasses and fast - growing trees , the U.S. could produce 1.3 billion tons of feedstock for ethanol . Separately , NREL calculated that all that plant matter could replace more ...
... planting 50 million acres of fallow land with perennial grasses and fast - growing trees , the U.S. could produce 1.3 billion tons of feedstock for ethanol . Separately , NREL calculated that all that plant matter could replace more ...
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... plants . Algae not only reduce a plant's global warming gases , but also devour other pollutants . Some algae make starch , which can be processed into ethanol ; others produce tiny droplets of oil that can be brewed into biodiesel or ...
... plants . Algae not only reduce a plant's global warming gases , but also devour other pollutants . Some algae make starch , which can be processed into ethanol ; others produce tiny droplets of oil that can be brewed into biodiesel or ...
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... plant . The superslick plant oil has also quieted a little of that annoying diesel rattle . " The way I think about these things is I'm sitting in a river in a canoe , " says Hobbs . " Now do I want to paddle upstream , or do I want to ...
... plant . The superslick plant oil has also quieted a little of that annoying diesel rattle . " The way I think about these things is I'm sitting in a river in a canoe , " says Hobbs . " Now do I want to paddle upstream , or do I want to ...
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