permaculture

[David <david@h4c.org>]

Chris,

On 3/26/2010 2:36 PM, Christopher Randolph wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I recently had the opportunity to meet with a city official out here in 
> Portland, Oregon who is trying to use the land along city highways to grow 
> biofuels and/or building materials....  if biofuels are the way to go, which 
> ones are actually worth growing?
You may be interested in a brief analysis, not of which energy crops to 
grow, but of what to do with them once grown in terms of biofuels: 
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/03/why-is-biogas-renewable-energys-cinderella

There is also an extensive but hard-to-use database concerning anaerobic 
digestion of energy crops found here 
<http://www.cropgen.soton.ac.uk/deliverables.htm>. (I note that the 
information in the database, which is in MS Access format, can be put 
into an Excel SS, if you know the correct generic steps.)



d.
--
David William House
"The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com|
/Vahid Biogas/, an alternative energy consultancy |www.vahidbiogas.com

|
"Make no search for water.       But find thirst,
And water from the very ground will burst."
(Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77)

http://bahai.us/