Coal-Fired Power Generator To Supplement Boiler Feed With Switchgrass And Sorghum

Sorghum seed cluster. Image credit:Wikipedia Remember all the excitement over growing switch grass as feedstock for ethanol fuel? Forget that sissy fermentation stuff. Real powerhouses burn it outright. NRG Energy Inc, a company with combined generation capacity of 24,000 megawatts, plans trial burns of switchgrass and sorghum (as pictured) to supplement the coal normally fed to boilers at the company's Big Cajun II power plant, in Louisiana. Sorghum has been around for centuries as a food grain, a molasses substitute, and a pasturing plant. Ch...Read the full story on TreeHugger