Fuel Fix: In the race to convert crops into energy, all eyes are on giant reed, a fast-growing and hardy grass species found throughout Texas and the southern United States. Yet, the very qualities that make the species, also known as arundo donax, attractive to the federal government as a renewable fuel source make it a noxious weed, capable of choking native plants, clogging rivers and streams and draining wetlands. Some scientists and environmentalists say the ecological and economic risks are greater...
URL: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/10/31/noxious-weed-fuels-green-energy-debate/
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