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Grassoline is a biofuel derived from plant material that is used as an alternative to ethanol. The term was coined by Matthew Scoggins, a graduate students of Bruce Dale, in 1991, to capture the idea of taking plant material and converting it into oil.
Grassoline can be made from switchgrass, which is more efficient than other energy crops such as corn, since it does not require as much water and can store sufficient amount of energy to be efficient. Unlike ethanol made from corn, grassoline can be made from the waste product of most plants. Grassoline generally receives criticism due to its efficiency and price of the fuel. Instead of producing cellulosic ethanol via fermentation from edible cereals(a grass from the monocot family) like corn, new techniques could produce grassoline from otherwise unused biomass. Cellulosic biomass(biofuel derived from living or recently living organisms) from wood residues, such as sawdust and construction debris and agricultural wastes, such as corn stalks and all the inedible stalks of other plants can be converted to any type of ethanol fuel, gasoline, diesel, and all the materials that derive from crude oil and its refinery. Energy crops such as switch grass and miscanthus provide high energy content and does not replace food like corn for energy. Miscanthus, however, does not self-fertilize and is permeable to frost, thus it may not serve as appropriate depending on the location.
Charris Ford is the founder of Grassolean Solutions and owns the web domains Grassoline.com and Grassolean.com, since 2001.