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Panicum virgatum

Index Panicum virgatum

Panicum virgatum, commonly known as switchgrass, is a perennial warm season bunchgrass native to North America, where it occurs naturally from 55°N latitude in Canada southwards into the United States and Mexico. [1]

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Alternative energy

Alternative energy is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel.

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Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum

Amphicarpum muehlenbergianum (or A. muhlenbergianum) USDA NRCS Plant Guide.

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Anatrytone logan

Anatrytone logan, the Delaware skipper, is a North American butterfly.

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Arundo donax

Arundo donax, giant cane, is a tall perennial cane, is one of several so-called reed species.

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Auburn University

Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

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Bioenergy

Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources.

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Biofuels Center of North Carolina

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina is a private, nonprofit corporate facility located on a Biofuels Campus in Oxford, North Carolina.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Biomass to liquid

Biomass to liquid (BtL or BMtL) is a multi-step process of producing synthetic hydrocarbon fuels made from biomass via a thermochemical route.

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Biosequestration

Biosequestration is the capture and storage of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by biological processes.

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Blastobasis repartella

Blastobasis repartella is a moth in the family Blastobasidae.

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Blount Generating Station

Blount Generating Station, also known as Blount Street Generating Station is a natural gas-fired, electrical power station located in the city of Madison, Wisconsin, in Dane County.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brachypodium distachyon

Brachypodium distachyon, commonly called purple false brome or stiff brome, is a grass species native to southern Europe, northern Africa and southwestern Asia east to India.

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Brownfield land

Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.

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Butanol fuel

Butanol may be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine.

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Cedar Hill, Texas

Cedar Hill is a city in Dallas and Ellis counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Cellulose

Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.

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Cellulosic ethanol

Cellulosic ethanol is ethanol (ethyl alcohol) produced from cellulose (the stringy fiber of a plant) rather than from the plant's seeds or fruit.

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Central tall grasslands

The Central tall grasslands are a prairie ecoregion of the Midwestern United States, part of the North American Great Plains.

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Ceres, Inc.

Ceres, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Thousand Oaks, California, United States.

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Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase

Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase, systematically named cinnamaldehyde:NADP+ oxidoreductase (CoA-cinnamoylating) but commonly referred to by the acronym CCR, is an enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substituted cinnamoyl-CoA to its corresponding cinnamaldehyde, utilizing NADPH and H+ and releasing free CoA and NADP+ in the process.

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Clymer Meadow Preserve

Clymer Meadow Preserve is a Nature Conservancy preserve located in the Blackland Prairie region of north Texas.

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Cofrin Memorial Arboretum

The Cofrin Memorial Arboretum 290 acres (120 hectares) surrounds the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay campus in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States.

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Conscience Point National Wildlife Refuge

The Conscience Point National Wildlife Refuge was established July 20, 1971 as a land gift from Stanley Howard.

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Cornell Botanic Gardens

The Cornell Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the Cornell Plantations, is a botanical garden located adjacent to the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York.

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County Farm Park

County Farm Park is a 141-acre public park in eastern Ann Arbor, Michigan owned by Washtenaw County and operated by the county's Parks and Recreation Commission.

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Daniel A. Vallero

Daniel A. Vallero is an American environmental author and scientist.

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Dargida rubripennis

Dargida rubripennis, the pink streak, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae.

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Dichagyris acclivis

Dichagyris acclivis is a moth of the Noctuidae family.

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E85

E85 is an abbreviation typically referring to an ethanol fuel blend of 85% ethanol fuel and 15% gasoline or other hydrocarbon by volume.

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Elmhurst Great Western Prairie

The Elmhurst Great Western Prairie (EGWP) is a six-acre, one mile long prairie remnant located immediately north of the Illinois Prairie Path in Elmhurst, Illinois.

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Energy crop

An energy crop is a plant grown as a low-cost and low-maintenance harvest used to make biofuels, such as bioethanol, or combusted for its energy content to generate electricity or heat.

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Energy policy of the United States

The energy policy of the United States is determined by federal, state, and local entities in the United States, which address issues of energy production, distribution, and consumption, such as building codes and gas mileage standards.

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Eragrostis curvula

Eragrostis curvula is a species of grass known by the common name weeping lovegrass.

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Ethanol

Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a chemical compound, a simple alcohol with the chemical formula.

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Ethanol fuel

Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel.

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Ethanol fuel energy balance

† depending on production method In order to create ethanol, all biomass needs to go through some of these steps: it needs to be grown, collected, dried, fermented, and burned.

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Ethanol fuel in the United States

The United States became the world's largest producer of ethanol fuel in 2005.

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Flint Hills

The Flint Hills historically known as Bluestem Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, is a region in eastern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma named for the abundant residual flint eroded from the bedrock that lies near or at the surface.

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Food vs. fuel

Food versus fuel is the dilemma regarding the risk of diverting farmland or crops for biofuels production to the detriment of the food supply.

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Fort Boggy State Park

Fort Boggy State Park is a state park located between Leona and Centerville, Texas.

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French Republican Calendar

The French Republican Calendar (calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary Calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.

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Genetically modified crops

Genetically modified crops (GMCs, GM crops, or biotech crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods.

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Geography of South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the north-central United States.

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Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area

Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area is a state park and listed state nature preserve.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

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Great Plains ecoregion

The ecology of the Great Plains is diverse, largely owing to their great size.

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Great Recession in South America

The Great Recession in South America, as it mainly consists of commodity exporters, was not directly affected by the financial turmoil, even if the bond markets of Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela have been hit.

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Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail

The Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail is a state-designated system of trails, bird sanctuaries, and nature preserves along the entire length of the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States.

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Gryllus pennsylvanicus

Gryllus pennsylvanicus is known as the fall field cricket.

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Haimbachia albescens

Haimbachia albescens, the silvered haimbachia moth, is a moth in the family Crambidae.

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Halophyte

A halophyte is a plant that grows in waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores.

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Harrell Prairie Botanical Area

Harrell Prairie Botanical Area or Harrell Prairie Hill is a tallgrass prairie nature preserve located within Bienville National Forest near Forest, Mississippi.

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Hill Country State Natural Area

Hill Country State Natural Area (HCSNA) preserves of rugged, relatively pristine Hill Country terrain in Bandera County, Texas.

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Houston black (soil)

Houston black soil extends over of the Texas blackland prairies and is the Texas state soil.

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Hyperaccumulators table – 3

This list covers hyperaccumulators, plant species which accumulate, or are tolerant of radionuclides (Cd, Cs-137, Co, Pu-238, Ra, Sr, U-234, 235, 238), hydrocarbons and organic solvents (Benzene, BTEX, DDT, Dieldrin, Endosulfan, Fluoranthene, MTBE, PCB, PCNB, TCE and by-products), and inorganic solvents (Potassium ferrocyanide).

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Ichnanthus

Ichnanthus, commonly called bedgrass, is a genus of tropical plants in the grass family, widespread in Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas.

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Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels

The indirect land use change impacts of biofuels, also known as ILUC, relates to the unintended consequence of releasing more carbon emissions due to land-use changes around the world induced by the expansion of croplands for ethanol or biodiesel production in response to the increased global demand for biofuels.

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Industrial crop

An industrial crop, also called a non-food crop, is a crop grown to produce goods for manufacturing, for example of fibre for clothing, rather than food for consumption.

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Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay is located on the southern side of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, near the island's western end.

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Katy Prairie Conservancy

Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) was established in 1992 to conserve Katy Prairie, part of the Western Gulf coastal grasslands located in Texas, United States.

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Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge

Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge is a 1,060 acre (4.3 km2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northwestern Alabama, along the Tennessee River downstream from Florence, Alabama.

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Konza Prairie biosphere reserve

Konza Prairie biosphere reserve is a biosphere reserve located in the Flint Hills region of north-eastern Kansas, approximately 10 km south of the city of Manhattan.

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Le Parc aux Bambous

Le Parc aux Bambous (4 hectares) is a botanical garden specializing in bamboo.

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LeConte's sparrow

The LeConte’s sparrow (Ammodramus leconteii) is one of the smallest sparrow species in North America.

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Lespedeza thunbergii

Lespedeza thunbergii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Thunberg's bushclover, Thunberg's lespedeza, and shrub lespedeza.

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Lignocellulosic biomass

Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass.

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List of Canadian plants by family P–Q

Main page: List of Canadian plants by family Families: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I J K | L | M | N | O | P Q | R | S | T | U V W | X Y Z.

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List of flora of Ohio

This list includes plants native and introduced to the state of Ohio, designated (N) and (I), respectively.

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List of graminoids of Soldiers Delight

The Graminoids of Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area, located in western Baltimore County, Maryland.

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List of Minnesota grasses, sedges, and rushes

This is a list of graminoids (grasses, sedges, and rushes) native or introduced to the U.S. state of Minnesota, organized alphabetically by scientific name (genus and species).

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List of monocotyledons of Montana

Monocotyledon species found in Montana number at least 615.

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List of Panicum species

the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises about 450 accepted taxa (of species and infraspecific names) in the plant genus Panicum.

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List of sequenced plant genomes

This list of sequenced plant genomes contains plant species known to have publicly available complete genome sequences that have been assembled, annotated and published.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the eastern shores of Bronx County, New York City, southern Westchester County, and Connecticut to the north, and the North Shore of Long Island, to the south.

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Low-carbon fuel standard

A low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) is a rule enacted to reduce carbon intensity in transportation fuels as compared to conventional petroleum fuels, such as gasoline and diesel.

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Lurie Garden

Lurie Garden is a garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Marginal land

Marginal land is land that is of little agricultural value because crops produced from the area would be worth less than any rent paid for access to the area.

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Mascoma Corporation

Mascoma Corporation was a U.S. biofuel company founded to produce cellulosic ethanol made from wood and switchgrass.

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Metabolix

Metabolix, Inc. is a bioplastics technology development and commercialization company founded in 1992.

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Metagenomics

Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples.

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Miscanthus giganteus

Miscanthus × giganteus, giant miscanthus, is a large, perennial grass hybrid of Miscanthus sinensis and Miscanthus sacchariflorus.

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Mitigation of peak oil

The mitigation of peak oil is the attempt to delay the date and minimize the social and economic effects of peak oil by reducing the consumption of and reliance on petroleum.

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Northern tall grasslands

The Northern tall grasslands is one of 867 terrestrial ecoregions defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Ornamental grass

Ornamental grasses are grasses grown as ornamental plants.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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PACMAD clade

The PACMAD clade (previously PACCMAD, PACCAD, or PACC) is one of two major lineages (or clades) of the true grasses (Poaceae), regrouping six subfamilies and about 5700 species, more than half of all true grasses.

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Panicoideae

Panicoideae is the second-largest subfamily of the grasses with over 3,500 species, mainly distributed in warm temperate and tropical regions.

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Panicum

Panicum (panicgrass) is a large genus of about 450 species of grasses native throughout the tropical regions of the world, with a few species extending into the northern temperate zone.

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Panicum mosaic virus

Panicum mosaic virus (PMV) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA viral pathogen that infects plant species in the Panicoid tribe of the grass family Poaceae.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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Phemeranthus rugospermus

Phemeranthus rugospermus is a species of flowering plant in the miner's lettuce family, Montiaceae, known by the common names prairie fameflower, rough-seeded fameflower, and flower-of-an-hour.

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Plug-in hybrid

A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid electric vehicle whose battery can be recharged by plugging it in to an external source of electric power as well by its on-board engine and generator.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Prairie restoration

Prairie restoration is an ecologically friendly way to restore some of the prairie land that was lost to industry, farming and commerce.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere.

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Qteros

Qteros, Inc. is an American energy company researching the production of cellulosic ethanol from a variety of non-food feedstock sources including corn stover, corn cobs, switchgrass, and sugar cane bagasse.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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Renewable energy commercialization

Renewable energy commercialization involves the deployment of three generations of renewable energy technologies dating back more than 100 years.

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Renewable resource

A renewable resource is a natural resource which replenishes to overcome resource depletion caused by usage and consumption, either through biological reproduction or other naturally recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale.

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Schizachyrium scoparium

Schizachyrium scoparium, commonly known as little bluestem or beard grass, is a North American prairie grass native to most of the United States, except California, Nevada, and Oregon, and a small area north of the Canada–US border.

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Second-generation biofuels

Second-generation biofuels, also known as advanced biofuels, are fuels that can be manufactured from various types of non-food biomass.

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Seneca white deer

The Seneca white deer are a rare herd of deer living within the confines of the former Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York.

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Short rotation coppice

Short rotation coppice (SRC) is coppice grown as an energy crop.

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Short rotation forestry

Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) is grown as an energy crop for use in power stations, alone or in combination with other fuels such as coal.

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Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area

Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on in Kendall County, Illinois, United States.

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Skokie Lagoons

Skokie Lagoons is a nature preserve in Glencoe and Winnetka, Illinois, owned and managed by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.

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Sorghastrum nutans

Sorghastrum nutans, commonly known as either Indiangrass or yellow Indiangrass, is a North American prairie grass found in the central and eastern United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies.

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Sustainable biofuel

Sustainable biofuel is biofuel produced in a sustainable manner.

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Sustainable energy

Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects.

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Switch (corporal punishment)

A switch is a flexible rod which is typically used for corporal punishment, similar to birching.

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Tallgrass prairie

The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.

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The Lacassane Company

The Lacassane Company is a land management company, with a goal of sustainable land management using an environmental management scheme that involves a host of tools including holistic management.

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Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge

Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located along the Upper Mississippi River in extreme southern Buffalo County and extreme southwestern Trempealeau County in Wisconsin, United States.

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Tripsacum dactyloides

Tripsacum dactyloides, commonly called eastern gamagrass, is a warm-season, sod-forming bunch grass.

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Western Gulf coastal grasslands

The Western Gulf coastal grasslands are a subtropical grassland ecoregion of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico.

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Wilson Lake (Kansas)

Wilson Lake is a reservoir in the U.S. state of Kansas, on the border of Russell County and Lincoln County.

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Lowland switchgrass, Switch Grass, Switch grass, Switchgrass, Tall panic grass, Thatchgrass.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicum_virgatum

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