Re: green unintended consequences

So who is going to pay the tobacco growers the same $$$ for growing switch grass that they earn from tobacco?  If you can solve that sticky little problem I'll put up the nomination to the Swedish Academy.

 The U. Q. for switchgrass is the need to develop a new cellulose digesting enzyme, and thinking the world will change it's behavior to suit a new paradigm at a significantly lower standard of living.

That's why we need to continue to sate the  desires of the people while developing a more efficient way to do it. 15% direct energy harvest via concentrating solar-thermal electric v 0.03% biomass yield from a crop that's still considered a weed, and still displaces food crops, and still requires fuel to harvest...

All I can ask is that you consider that betting every horse in the race only benefits the owners of the track.  Win, Place, Show, the rest are losers the moment they started running.