ENERGY - Switchgrass Biofuel Potentially Cheaper Than Oil for Heating Homes

To be filed in the category of everything old is new again: a new study from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) suggests that millions of homes and businesses in the U.S. would save money by burning biomass in their basement furnaces instead of oil, in form of switchgrass biofuel pellets. That would bring things back - way back - full circle to the days when the prevailing form of energy was distributed energy, in the form of biomas ...

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