Reap more than you sow. That’s the challenge faced by farmers who grow crops for biofuels.
GRASSY FUEL. A bale of switchgrass can produce enough ethanol to fill a 50-gallon barrel. J. Roitsch
Even as biofuel production booms, some scientists have questioned whether the fertilizer- and tractor-intensive farming of crops used to make biofuels consumes more energy than it produces.
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