A group of researchers led by Purdue University scientists believes sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable, easily adopted by producers and take advantage of existing agricultural infrastructure.
Those attributes point to potential adoptability for sorghum. Scientists from Purdue, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Illinois and Cornell University believe sorghum, a grain crop similar to corn, could benefit from the rail system, grain elevators and corn ethanol processing facilities already in place.
Their article explaining the perspective has been published early online in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining.
Hemp will produce MORE bio-fuels, imo, than Sorgum which is a foodstuff necessary to Anti-gluten diets. Hemp can be grown on all of the continents, and uses “junk-land” leaving farming acre-age for other crops. Hemp, the industrial kinds, will NEVER get one “high” and yet the fuels obtained from it have a variety of uses. Purdue University should STOP trying to “explore areas that don’t need to be explored. Purdue has, however, a “History” of doing stupid govt./other projects, where they fully funded Amelia’s Earhart’s Army Air Force “Private”, E-model 10 Electra Spy-plane for her around-the-World ’37 flight where she landed on Nikamoro and later died of exposure, having missed Howland. The Navy dropped-the-ball, and didn’t “search” for her throughout the Marianas, determining definitively whether or not the Japanese were illegally fortifying their mandates against the League of Nations directives(–if they had, they might have stopped the pre-war development of Saipan.
Sorghum, research has been going on for years. Big problem, as I recall, is that the sugar degrades after harvest, and the sorghum seed is relatively heavy due to high water content, so it was only practical if the conversion to fuel was done right in the field. But it does seem to have a much higher energy density that corn. Sugar beets also have a much higher density than corn and the Sugar beet to molassas, to ethanol process is well known. Also soy oil is more promising, but it hardents in cold weather unless it is mixed only 10% in Diesel. The big problem with all of these, like with all bio fuels, is that it is not cost effective with heavy subsidies.
So, Mark, are the Powers-That-Be that want to lock-up crop-land for heavily subsidized fuel (which is ABSURD, because this nation is AWASH with gas/oil, often obtainable via slant-drill tech on OLD Fields!) trying to make a “diesil”… or an “ethanol(alcohol)”? The Globalists would NOT CARE how expensive fuel is, –the more expensive it is, the more taxes can be hung on it, and the less moble the Society is, in general (–wealth & mobility being an impediment to CONTROL of the Masses in the cities).