Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn in Ethanol Production Study

[Muttocracy]

Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn in Ethanol Production Study
By Don Comis
August 20 , 2008

In experiments, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in those states, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report. The same was true of tropical cassava in Alabama.

The sweet potato carbohydrate yields approached the lower limits of those produced by sugarcane, the highest-yielding ethanol crop. Another advantage for sweet potatoes and cassava is that they require much less fertilizer and pesticide than corn.

continues at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2008/080820.htm

[asjr]

1. I can attest to the fact that

sweet potatoes create gas.

[liberal N proud]

2. Finally, a good use for sweet potatoes

[wellstone dem]

3. LOL

I won't eat them either.

[Muttocracy]

5. really? I'm convinced vegetables taste really different to different people.

My sister loves Brussels sprouts and I can't bear to be near them - they're super-bitter to me. Sweet potatoes taste like candy to me.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Beets are better than any of them, but...

have to be processed almost immediately after being dug up.

[Javaman]

6. Yay!!! more food for fuel!!! Yay!!!!

:banghead: