187-7 The 1000 Gallon Per Acre Protocol.

See more from this Division: ASA Section: Agronomic Production Systems
See more from this Session: Matching Research with Industry Needs to Meet Bioenergy Targets: I
Tuesday, October 23, 2012: 9:30 AM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 208, Level 2
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Charles L. Deichman, Agronomy, Deichman Consulting, Shelbyville, MO
This paper will

1.describe the alternative, interdisciplinary protocol that enabled production rates in excess of 1000 gallons of infrastructure ready dehydrated automotive biofuels and high value co-products, sourced from a typical acre in the U.S. heartland, 

2.call for an independent study to run the protocol and, pending results of 2,

3.propose the deployment paradigm to sustainably support this level of production and multiple downstream, high value additional bioenergy products.

To say how many acres should be devoted to this objective is beyond the scope of the author, but, based on our results, an energy value equivilent to anhydrous ethanol and the current U.S. land and atmospheric resource base; the proposed and fully developed deployment paradigm should be capable of producing 1000 gallons per acre on up to 75-90 million acres in the U.S..

See more from this Division: ASA Section: Agronomic Production Systems
See more from this Session: Matching Research with Industry Needs to Meet Bioenergy Targets: I