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Here are some links, if you want to learn more about it.
I posted this story, which sounded hopeful, here, last year:
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/10/13/local/doc452eb9efc0fc6435...
And this, is from the National Sorghum Producers (includes some good articles):
http://www.sorghumgrowers.com/SORGHUM-to-Ethanol
The key here, IMO, is "Ethanol from sorghum can replace MTBE as an oxygenate in gasoline, providing a cleaner, safer environment." In other words, it is being used to fulfill the mandate, same as corn ethanol.
If you read about the process, they tend to gloss over the energy intensive logistical problems, requiring more research. EROI? It requires less rainfall than corn--that is good. Also, note that there are different types of sorghum discussed in these articles, short-grain sorghum, and taller sorghum being bred with little grain.
This is nothing new. It's been around for decades.
Seriously this is goddamn plant and corn are pure bullshit.
One bushel of A produces as much as one bushel of B.
woo! woo!!!! .... boo.
You are just replacing corn with corn-lite. If this plant required much less nitrogen, then i would be happy(moderately so).
but still this entire line of thinking is a zombie, the walking dead, it is supported by gov mandate, and could not survive on it's own. Brazils ethanol infrastructure only survives because of manual slave labour (boost the eroei) and the fact they can grow sugarcane!
EROI, EROI, why hast thou forsaken us?
The ethanol sacred cow needs to be tipped ... into a wood chipper. Its a big, fat scam that wastes time, money, and energy.
Biofuels? Great! Biofuels that can't even break even? Not so great.
Not until properly processed by the aforementioned bull....
(Sorry. Couldn't resist. Won't happen again.)