Re: Coal Sweetened Biomass

Cool plant!  It's a pity about the high Si content, rough on the harvesting machinery... oh well.

That's the kind of science that's helpful.  I don't know if it's a solution, but certainly a step in the right direction.

I'd bet that slow pyrolysis, and grinding would make this stuff an even more valuable fuel source, yielding some liquid hydrocarbons, and a pulverized coal equivalent.

Remember the easiest & cheapest lb of CO2 to deal with is the one you don't generate!  Bio-carbon displaces fossil carbon, that's all, the coal *is* sequestered carbon, but it took a lot of sunlight with it all those years ago.