giant miscanthus
miscanthus giganteus latin

The project goal is to establish more than 50,000 acres of giant miscanthus, a warm-season grass that can be converted into energy.

Two leading non-food crops for the production of cellulosic bioethanol are switchgrass and giant miscanthus.

Giant Miscanthus is capable of producing up to 20 tons of biomass and 3,250 gallons of ethanol fuel.

Compared to other ethanol inputs, giant Miscanthus grass produces more mass overall, as well as more ethanol.

Dedicated energy crops are non-food energy crops as giant miscanthus, switchgrass, jatropha, fungi, and algae.

They are also quite diverse, ranging in size from the six-inch mounds of dwarf blue fescue (Festuca ovina glauca) to the giant miscanthus (Miscanthus floridulus), capable of exceeding 12 feet.

SunBelt has since been renamed REPREVE Renewables, and has developed a program to distribute the strain to growers, refiners, and others interested in the plant (dubbed "FREEDOM giant miscanthus", as the company hopes to reduce American dependence on foreign oil).

These include poplar trees and Miscanthus giganteus.

Warmth is provided by the nearby energy centre, which is fuelled by woodchip and Miscanthus giganteus grown by local farmers.

The sterile hybrid between M. sinensis and M. sacchariflorus, Miscanthus giganteus, has been trialed as a biofuel in Europe since the early 1980s.

Second generation biofuels are now being produced from the cellulose in dedicated energy crops (perennial grasses such as switchgrass and Miscanthus giganteus), forestry materials, the co-products from food production, and domestic vegetable waste.

James Mutton of Burlerrow Farm was the first farmer in Cornwall to receive a grant from the England Rural Development Programme this enabled him to process Miscanthus giganteus which is grown in and around the village, the crop is converted into livestock bedding.