Fuel as an agricultural crop

✍ Scribed by J. Levitt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1975
• Weight: 451 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7480
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-7480(75)90043-1

✦ Synopsis

An immediately available method is described for converting the unharvested part of a crop into fuel to replace fossil fuel. In the form of charcoal, it could supply all the energy needed for raising, harvesting and marketing the crop, plus a considerable surplus. The ultimate aim should be to supply all the energy needs of agriculture from the photosynthetically produced by-products of crops.

The fuel shortage today is widely recognized to be a political problem, a business problem, an engineering problem, but few people recognize it as an agricultural problem. There are two reasons for agriculturists to become involved in the fuel problem:

(1) modern agriculture consumes tremendous quantities of fuel [3], and (2) fuel can be produced as an agricultural crop [6]. Charcoal Corn Fossil fuel Pollution Solar energy