Comments on: And the next plant-based fuel is … duckweed http://www.greenbang.com/and-the-next-plant-based-fuel-is-duckweed_8660.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken http://www.greenbang.com/and-the-next-plant-based-fuel-is-duckweed_8660.html/comment-page-1#comment-11417 Ken Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:40:15 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=8660#comment-11417 The point is not whether or not certain crops may be more practical in certain locations, the POINT is that duckweed grows almost everywhere and is VERY easy to use to remove nutrients from water. It is often far easier to obtain, far easier to propogate, and far more effective at removing nutrients. Duckweed also has a very high protein and amino acid content along with its high starch. Few plants are as easy to grow and easy to handle while having such high levels of protein, starch, fiber, and trace nutrients. Under decent conditions it grows fast enough to double its mass each day, and it is far easier to cover a trench with a tarp than to cover sugar cane. BTW, how well does sugar cane grow in Canada? How well does it work at purifying water in northern regions?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('11417','Ken'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('11417','Ken','The point is not whether or not certain crops may be more practical in certain locations, the POINT is that duckweed grows almost everywhere and is VERY easy to use to remove nutrients from water.\r\nIt is often far easier to obtain, far easier to propogate, and far more effective at removing nutrients. Duckweed also has a very high protein and amino acid content along with its high starch. Few plants are as easy to grow and easy to handle while having such high levels of protein, starch, fiber, and trace nutrients. Under decent conditions it grows fast enough to double its mass each day, and it is far easier to cover a trench with a tarp than to cover sugar cane. BTW, how well does sugar cane grow in Canada? How well does it work at purifying water in northern regions?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The point is not whether or not certain crops may be more practical in certain locations, the POINT is that duckweed grows almost everywhere and is VERY easy to use to remove nutrients from water.
It is often far easier to obtain, far easier to propogate, and far more effective at removing nutrients. Duckweed also has a very high protein and amino acid content along with its high starch. Few plants are as easy to grow and easy to handle while having such high levels of protein, starch, fiber, and trace nutrients. Under decent conditions it grows fast enough to double its mass each day, and it is far easier to cover a trench with a tarp than to cover sugar cane. BTW, how well does sugar cane grow in Canada? How well does it work at purifying water in northern regions?
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]]> By: lewis http://www.greenbang.com/and-the-next-plant-based-fuel-is-duckweed_8660.html/comment-page-1#comment-9783 lewis Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:33:43 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=8660#comment-9783 Yet ANOTHER crop that promises the world to ethanol investors. I´t be SO easy just to plant sugar cane, which is a PROVEN technology...! But America will NEVER bow to a fact that a 3rd world country was able to attain its oil independence because of a crop it chose over 3 decades ago. So everyday we get one of these smoke and mirrors crops that are nowhere to be found after a couple of months of media noise....<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('9783','lewis'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('9783','lewis','Yet ANOTHER crop that promises the world to ethanol investors.\r\n\r\nI´t be SO easy just to plant sugar cane, which is a PROVEN technology...!\r\n\r\nBut America will NEVER bow to a fact that a 3rd world country was able to attain its oil independence because of a crop it chose over 3 decades ago.\r\n\r\nSo everyday we get one of these smoke and mirrors crops that are nowhere to be found after a couple of months of media noise....'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Yet ANOTHER crop that promises the world to ethanol investors.

I´t be SO easy just to plant sugar cane, which is a PROVEN technology…!

But America will NEVER bow to a fact that a 3rd world country was able to attain its oil independence because of a crop it chose over 3 decades ago.

So everyday we get one of these smoke and mirrors crops that are nowhere to be found after a couple of months of media noise….

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]]> By: Oliver http://www.greenbang.com/and-the-next-plant-based-fuel-is-duckweed_8660.html/comment-page-1#comment-9619 Oliver Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:45:23 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/?p=8660#comment-9619 “Unlike corn, duckweed doesn’t raise the spectre of trading food for fuel, as corn does.”

The specter (fear) of food for fuel is a myth raised by the Petroleum Institute as a scare tactic to keep America enslaved by oil.

The removal of starch from corn or Duckweed during the distillation process only improves its quality as food.

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