switchblade

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"If they're farming a bunch of hay, that's probably more easily adaptable to cellulosic biofuel feedstock, because they might already have the equipment … and you could harvest something like switchgrass then too," Lark says.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association, called the EPA plan “a missed opportunity to invest in and expand the adoption of low-carbon advanced biofuels” such as algae, switchgrass, cellulosic ethanol or landfill waste.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

After conducting lab tests, the researchers planted the modified switchgrass on New York State's RDX-polluted Fort Drum military base.

From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2021

In the long term, replacing corn with other crops that don't require as many resources to grow, like switchgrass, would also substantially improve ethanol's carbon footprint.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2021

This was no wilderness, but manicured groves of red-fringed switchgrass, buckthorn, elm, and black cherry, carefully tended to give the illusion of a wild space.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros