Comments on: wednesday’s mixed bag of green news http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/08/14/wednesdays-mixed-bag-of-green-news-22/ The Alternative Consumer provides product reviews, eco news and green info to the next wave of smart consumers. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mike in Brooklyn http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/08/14/wednesdays-mixed-bag-of-green-news-22/comment-page-1/#comment-27232 Mike in Brooklyn Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:44:02 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2007/08/14/wednesdays-mixed-bag-of-green-news-22/#comment-27232 Hi! Just waiting to hear from me, right? As our book notes, mesquite flowers become pods that contain plants' fermentable sugars. Mesquite needs no nitrogen fertilizer. What these researchers need to do is harvest the pods, which are 50% SUGAR. They could be bred to higher concentrations. 4 1/2 tons of pods per acre could be harvested every year. 341 gallons per acre. 70 million acres of the stuff No cellulose conversion needed. Residual mash from the fermented pods are 13 to 16% protein. High in lysine. Mesquite meal controls diabetes. People food. Hey, what's all that talk about food versus fuel? We can do both! Hi!
Just waiting to hear from me, right? As our book notes, mesquite flowers become pods that contain plants’ fermentable sugars. Mesquite needs no nitrogen fertilizer.

What these researchers need to do is harvest the pods, which are 50% SUGAR. They could be bred to higher concentrations. 4 1/2 tons of pods per acre could be harvested every year. 341 gallons per acre.
70 million acres of the stuff
No cellulose conversion needed.
Residual mash from the fermented pods are 13 to 16% protein. High in lysine. Mesquite meal controls diabetes. People food.
Hey, what’s all that talk about food versus fuel? We can do both!

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