Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 22:35
in Earth & Climate
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, scientists report. The same was true of tropical cassava in Alabama.
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