{"id":3914,"date":"2011-03-25T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:49","slug":"researchers-highlight-agave-potential-as-biofuel-feedstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/researchers-highlight-agave-potential-as-biofuel-feedstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Highlight Agave Potential as Biofuel Feedstock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via Biofuel Daily<\/figcaption><\/figure>It is better known to many people as a healthy replacement for sugar in syrup form and the primate matter for tequila, but it recently emerged that algave could be a promising biofuel feedstock.<\/p>\n

The news was broken in an article published by Global Change Biology Bioenergy, based on research carried out by E. Garcia-Moya, professor of Botany at the Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agricolas in Texcoco, Mexico.<\/p>\n

So, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good about agave as biofuel source?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIt grows successfully under hot, dry conditions;
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIt would continue to thrive under increased temperatures and variable precipitation accompanying global climate change;
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tElevated levels of atmospheric CO2 would increase productivity;
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIt has comparable productivity to high productivity crops such as corn;
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tIt does not compete for land with the production of commodities and it is widely distributed in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Waste remaining in the fields after harvest, and created during tequila and mescal production, can potentially provide thousands of tons of bioenergy feedstock per year for bioenergy production\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Garcia-Moya said.<\/p>\n

Via Biofuel Daily<\/a><\/p>\n

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