Quote from: triffid on November 16, 2011, 12:04:16 AMUSDA research shows that 150 gallons of fuel can be made from a ton of seeds when using both the seed oil and presscake biomass indicating that Pennycress has the potential to produce about 6 billion gallons of liquid transportation biofuels per year. In the future yields are expected significantly increase thus raising the impact of this sustainable energy supply.[/color][/font][/size]All of this can be accomplished without impact to the food supply while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting the environment and producing tremendous economic benefit to the rural economy.[/color][/font][/size]

'Salt switchgrass'  (not the correct name?   I'm going by memory.)   grows in the Desert Southwest and will do something similar.   It'll tolerate the sun and little water, where practically nothing else will grow.   But your idea is valid, triffid.

--Lee

There are people doing things,but it takes time and money to do things that are sustainable and renewable.It takes people waking up to a crisis to start changing the ways they do things.The protesters show that the public is waking up to what the corporations and bankers are doing to this country.I heard that greek farmers are still growing food,That greek firemen still put out fires.They are doing these things without banks.They are taking up barter to bypass the banks altogether.Biodiesel is a great way to get the usa off of foreign oil.And out of expensive wars FOR OIL Put the 50 billion a year we spend to occupy the middle east for their oil.Into solar,wind and biodiesel.America would become energy independent in 20 years or sooner!triffid

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Hey Triff
Heres a good article, considering what were posting the other day.  ;]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-corporate-cash-pile-isnt-163940462.html

Mags

Thanks Mags,We do need to remember that everything is not as simple as the media wants us to believe.So I am posting part of your article here.  NEW YORK (AP) -- Hardly a day goes by without some politician or pundit pointing out that companies are hoarding cash â€" roughly $3 trillion of it. If only they would spend it, the thinking goes, the economy might get better.[/size]But the story is not as simple as that. Though it seems to have escaped nearly everyone's notice, companies have piled up even more debt lately than they have cash. So they aren't as free to spend as they may seem.[/size]
"The record cash story is bull market baloney," says David Stockman, a former U.S. budget director.[/size]
U.S. companies are sitting on $358 billion more cash than they had at the start of the recession in December 2007, according to the latest Federal Reserve figures, from June. But in the same period, what they owed rose $428 billion.[/size]
Before the recession, you have to go back at least six decades to find a time when companies were so burdened by debt.[/size]