In Illinois, the Heartland Partnership, a group of regional business development organizations based in Peoria, will commence a demonstration planting of pennycress as a biofuel feedstock this week. The crop, which has an oil content of up to 36 percent, can be grown as a fall/winter cover crop and harvested before soy or corn planting, creating extra income for farmers. The USDA National Center for Agricultural Utilization
Research, Western Illinois University, and BMI are also joining in the effort. BMI has announced plans to operate as pennycress-based biodiesel plant when sufficient feedstock is available.
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SCIPIO | Nov 5, 2008 | Reply
Anything that contains lipids and can be grown at the northern latitudes in the fall and winter months will be successful. Even though my company can grow algae for biofuels on an industrial scale on a continuous basis, doing so quickly grows horribly energy inefficient as the days shorten and even worse in the dead of winter.