Biomass more efficient than ethanol

Stock & Land (Australia)
MATTHEW CAWOOD
13 Oct, 2010 12:39 PM

BIOMASS converted to electricity could achieve 80 per cent more “miles per acre” than the same material converted to ethanol, a group of United States researchers announced last year.

As an example, the study by researchers from several US universities found that a small SUV powered by bioelectricity could travel nearly 14,000 highway miles on the net energy produced from an acre of switchgrass, while a comparable internal combustion vehicle could only travel about 9000 miles on the highway.

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