{"id":16108,"date":"2012-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20121117-01n"},"modified":"2012-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:00:00","slug":"giant-reed-seen-as-biofuel-or-another-kudzu-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/giant-reed-seen-as-biofuel-or-another-kudzu-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant reed seen as biofuel &#8211; or another kudzu disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>It&#8217;s fast-growing and drought-tolerant, producing tons of biomass per acre. It thrives even in poor soil and is a self-propagating perennial, so it requires little investment once established.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To people in the renewable fuels industry, Arundo donax &#8211; also known as &#8220;giant reed&#8221; &#8211; is nothing short of a miracle plant. An Oregon power plant is looking at it as a potential substitute for coal, and North Carolina boosters are salivating over the prospect of an ethanol bio-refinery that would bring millions of dollars in investment and dozens of high-paying jobs to hog country.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/11\/17\/15242788-giant-reed-seen-as-biofuel-or-another-kudzu-disaster\" >usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/11\/17\/15242788-giant-reed-seen-as-biofuel-or-another-kudzu-disaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: invasiveness, intentional introduction, nasty plant, energy grasses, weed risk analysis, sprayfields, renewable fuel standard program<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>It&#8217;s fast-growing and drought-tolerant, producing tons of biomass per acre. It thrives even in poor soil and is a self-propagating perennial, so it requires little<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2954,2543,4129,2718,1214,8400,11236],"class_list":["post-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-biofuels-center-of-north-carolina","supplier-chemtex-group","supplier-native-plant-society-of-oregon-npso","supplier-north-carolina-state-university","supplier-united-states-environmental-protection-agency-epa","supplier-usda","supplier-u-s-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}