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  • From: Lawrence F.London, Jr. <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Harvesting of prairie biomass for energy?
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:15:05 +0000 (UTC)

Rael Bassan <rael@...> writes:

>
> In a recent [Permaculture Forum (Upper Midwest)] post there was some
> concern about the proposed harvesting of prairie biomass for energy,
> suggested by the Minnesota studies of David Tillman's group. According to
> their analysis, using a prairie plant mixture of up to 14 species "comes
> out 6 to 16 times better than corn grain ethanol or biodeisel [sic] ."
> www.vnps.org/chapters/princewilliam/wildnewsjanfeb07.pdf

Doesn't hrvesting prairie plants for conversion to ethanol result in serious
organic matter and accompanying soil microflora depetion in those soils?

LL





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