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Grass fuel needs U.S. lobby to be accepted

Grass fuel needs U.S. lobby to be accepted

[World News] ITHACA, N.Y.,, April 1 : Grass is an environmentally friendly fuel source for the United States but lacks the political lobby to be accepted, a researcher said.

Agriculture Professor Jerry Cherney of Cornell University said burning grass pellets for energy is an accepted technology in Europe but not in the United States.It is economical, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and sustainable, he recently told a U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored conference.

"Burning grass pellets makes sense.After all, it takes 70 days to grow a crop of grass for pellets, but it takes 70 million years to make fossil fuels," Cherney said in a statement."Unfortunately grass has no political lobby, which makes the start up of any new alternative energy industry problematic."

Cherney said Washington has made no effort to support grass fuel technology with subsidies or research dollars.He said pellets with various mixes of grasses have 96 percent of the British Thermal Units produced per pound as wood pellets.


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