Finn: Switchgrass yes, but I'd forget the ethanol. Ethanol is being driven by the folks the make equipment to process the raw material into ethanol, plus the large grain companies who like it great when there is an over supply of grain.
Turn your switchgrass into pellets for direct burning in an industrial stationary burner or sell it to your nearby landfill. There is a landfill near me, they have piped it with Big O below the landfill soil seal. Plans are to vacume off the methane for burning. In fact they have already done a pilot project. One of the problems I see, modern day landfills don't have enough organic material. Municipalities are sorting out the compostables, leaving a high percentage of plastic going into landfills. Landfills are buying expensive fluf as a compaction material, to pack down all this plastic.
Basically as I see it, just maybe we can fertilize switchgrass with sewage, recycle the plastic and put all the compostables, switchgrass included back in the landfill, then we'll have a real power source. Doesn't take a whole bunch of sophisticated equipment either. Basically the one I saw running was a 150 hp natural gas engine off 500' of Big O, and not a very organic landfill either.
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