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Climate Change

Investigating the sustainability of grassoline as a biofuel alternative to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. The experiment focuses on different grass species and fertilization impacts on ecosystem. Planting and harvesting plots in school districts.

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Climate Change

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  1. Climate Change

  2. FOSSILfuels Now: ~300 million years ago (before dinosaurs!): Coal Oil

  3. Burning Fossil Fuels puts EXTRA carbon dioxide into the atmosphere CO2

  4. Carbon dioxide cycles naturally Carbon from grass is converted to CO2 by herbivores and decomposers CO2 CO2

  5. Climate Change SOLUTION? Bioenergy or Biofuels or Grassoline When using grassoline as a fuel, CO2 that is produced would have been released into the atmosphere naturally through other processes CO2 CO2

  6. The BEST Experiment Question:Is Grassoline Sustainable?OrHow green is grassoline? BioEnergy SusTainability Experiment

  7. The BEST Experiment Question:Is Grassoline Sustainable? • What kind of grass to make grassoline from?—lots of species (prairie) or just one species (switchgrass)? • Should we fertilize to make the grass grow bigger? Will doing this create other kinds of pollution? • What will happen to the ecosystem when we cut the grass (to make fuel)? or

  8. Research Plots

  9. FERTILIZED SWITCH HARVESTED FERTILIZED PRAIRIE HARVESTED FERTILIZED PRAIRIE FERTILIZED SWITCH SWITCH HARVESTED PRAIRIE HARVESTED SWITCH PRAIRIE Block Layout

  10. Planting the plots! Harper Creek school district

  11. Planting the plots! Olivet school district

  12. Biofuel Video http://www.ndep.us/Biofuel

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