Switchgrass in now been taken very seriously as a biomass fuel, particularly in the US. The video below shows Switchgrass cultivation and trials. It shows how choosing the right species of Switchgrass for the right climate will maximise yields and reduce the risk of the crop loses.

Switchgrass has many advantages, firstly as the video states the large root system can help reduce soil erosion of arid land. This root system also enables Switchgrass to prosper with little rainfall. As Switchgrass is a perennial, the root system remains in the ground, more evidence is arising that this maybe a way to trap carbon back into the soil. Different Switchgrass species can be grown in a wide range of climates. Switchgrass can also be grown by simply planting a seed, and will only require planting once.

Switchgrass pellets are another possible biomass fuel. Productivity through the pellet mill compared to wood is higher, due to the materials lower density. This means less energy is consumed in the production of Switchgrass pellets compared to wood pellets. Switchgrass pellets do contain more ash, and there are clinker and corrosion issues. However these issues are no worse than our ancestors experienced with coal, and technology can be produced to work around these issues.

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Hemp is a truly universal source of food, clothes, plastics, fuel and many other uses. The CNN video below shows Canadian farmers harvesting and processing Hemp for the production of hemp oil for food products. The video shows some of the vast number of food products that can be produced from hemp. Also how hemp can be used to produce car parts.

Hemp Biomass Pellets

Hemp as a biomass fuel source will not impact on any of the other uses for food, clothes, plastics or car parts. After hemp biomass processing as with all processing there is a by-product. This hemp biomass is what could be compressed into pellets to be used as a fuel in pellets stoves, pellet boilers and pellet gasifiers to generate heat and electricity. Hemp pellets produce good heat and low ash.

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Below is a video of Dean Tiessen, who is a Canadian farmer talking at a US farmers conference. Biomass supply is clearly the most important aspect of a renewable energy future. What Dean is highlighting in his presentation, is the new role that agriculture will have to play in the 21st century in producing biomass to be upgraded in valued added usable goods such as biomass pellets.

Dean also talks about whether farmers will be just part of the supply chain as they currently are for food production, or will they play more of an integral role in biomass energy production. The PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer is being developed for several uses and markets, including farmers. The unit will give farmers the opportunity to produce their own fuel to reduce their on farm heat and energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint. However it could also be used as a way to introduce farmers to the biomass fuels market, to learn the pellet production process and research local and regional market potential. This potential may simply be in the form of heating via pellet stoves and boilers, or by more sophisticated technologies such as gasification, which could be used to produce gas to power generators for electricity generation. We see the PelHeat Mobile Pelletizer as a means of fuel independence, but also as a means to explore biomass energy potential, and as a stepping stone on to larger scale pellet production solutions.

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Burning biomass is a carbon neutral process as you are burning a resource, which is already part of the carbon cycle, unlike fossil fuels. Therefore as long as biomass is re-grown then burning biomass does not add to global warming.

However there is evidence of certain crops actually reversing the process. For example Miscanthus is regarded as a carbon sequestration plant that can actually remove carbon from the atmosphere and trap it in the soil. This therefore is actually reversing global warming.

Another way to do this is once you have burnt your biomass pellets, using the ash to make a fertilizer or soil conditioner.

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Miscanthus cannot be grown from seed; new fields must be made from existing fields by separating the plant into rhizomes then transplanting them to a new field. This is the main issue with Miscanthus as the need to plant rhizomes raises problems. Firstly you can only source the rhizomes from certain places therefore the cost to acquire them can be quite high. Also because each rhizome has to be transplanted the setup costs can also be high. Finally the main issue is once the crop is in place due to the high initial setup costs, crop rotation cannot take place. Therefore the landowner is essentially tied into Miscanthus for a long period of time.

If you compared Miscanthus to Industrial Hemp there are many more advantages to Hemp. Because Industrial Hemp is grown by seed and only grows for 3 months of the year the setup and maintenance costs are much lower. Industrial Hemp can be used from more things, including food, fuel, rope, clothes, plastics and more. Finally Industrial Hemp, as it is grown by seed, can be part of a crop rotation system. Giving the landowner the ability to change to the crop, which is needed at that time.

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