Megaflora Trees
Planting Megaflora trees in strategic places in the world would help our environment greatly. The Megaflora tree is an amazing biofuel because it has many unique qualities.
-Grows on marginal land (land unsuitable for food crop growth)
-Can use poor quality water for irrigation (waste water)
-Can grow to full maturity (60 ft) in only 3 years
-It can re-grow from its own stump when cut
-Huge leaves absorb high levels of carbon dioxide and give off oxygen
-Can be used as biofuel or can be burned for electricity
Megaflora trees start by combining the DNA from 2 seperate trees through root graphing. These saplings can then be planted in even the poorest of soils. These trees then grow to full height and then can be cut down. The trees can then be converted to biofuels using the cellulose from the leaves to create one type of biofuels and the wood can be burned for electricity or sized down to small wood chips and converted to liquid biomass. The advantages of the Megaflora tree are that it is a non-invasive tree meaning it bears no fruit and won't take all the water out of the soil. It actually increases the amount of surface water and cleans out chemicals from the soil that make some land unsuitable for crop growth. The disadvantages are that when burned, like other fuels they give off carbon dioxide, but unlike other fuels they take in more carbon dioxide when they are growing than they give off when they are burned. People have been using wood to heat their homes since before oil. These trees can be grown almost everywhere in the world. The amount of land in Texas and California alone that is unsuitable for crop growth can be enough land for all of the US electricity OR one fourth of US fuel needs. For future possibilities we could plant enough of these trees to power all of the US and increase the amount of land suitable for crop growth.
http://egembrs.com/mini-biorefineries/feedstocks/
http://www.emeraldplantations.com/projects.html
-Grows on marginal land (land unsuitable for food crop growth)
-Can use poor quality water for irrigation (waste water)
-Can grow to full maturity (60 ft) in only 3 years
-It can re-grow from its own stump when cut
-Huge leaves absorb high levels of carbon dioxide and give off oxygen
-Can be used as biofuel or can be burned for electricity
Megaflora trees start by combining the DNA from 2 seperate trees through root graphing. These saplings can then be planted in even the poorest of soils. These trees then grow to full height and then can be cut down. The trees can then be converted to biofuels using the cellulose from the leaves to create one type of biofuels and the wood can be burned for electricity or sized down to small wood chips and converted to liquid biomass. The advantages of the Megaflora tree are that it is a non-invasive tree meaning it bears no fruit and won't take all the water out of the soil. It actually increases the amount of surface water and cleans out chemicals from the soil that make some land unsuitable for crop growth. The disadvantages are that when burned, like other fuels they give off carbon dioxide, but unlike other fuels they take in more carbon dioxide when they are growing than they give off when they are burned. People have been using wood to heat their homes since before oil. These trees can be grown almost everywhere in the world. The amount of land in Texas and California alone that is unsuitable for crop growth can be enough land for all of the US electricity OR one fourth of US fuel needs. For future possibilities we could plant enough of these trees to power all of the US and increase the amount of land suitable for crop growth.
http://egembrs.com/mini-biorefineries/feedstocks/
http://www.emeraldplantations.com/projects.html