Good news for PROGRASS [home]! The Department of Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Resources at the university in Kassel managed to qualify for 1,6 million € of external funds from the LIFE+ Environmental Policy and Governance [home] pool of the European Union. The project aims at several things, some of the main points are:
- Securing the conservation of species-rich grasslands habitats with a distributed bioenergy production. A new approach will be demonstrated and the feasibility will be proved.
- Producing Bioenergy without competing with the production of food (A problem causing severe problems in the production of biofuel from sugarcane and corn.) The solution: Using abandoned grasslands.
- Development of a technology that uses up to 70% of the energy contained in the biomass.
Entries in WikiPedia concerning the most important terms are: biomass, bioenergy and biogas. They also contain information on some critical points about biofuel production.
Links for further reading on the web:
- Detailed information on PROGRASS [PDF, English]
- Uni Kassel [home, German]
