Grass produces 4000 gallons of gasoline per acre

CoolPlanet Energy Systems claims that they have been able to produce 4,000 gallons of gasoline per acre in their pilot plant using giant Miscanthus, a perennial grass developed at the University of Mississippi. Giant Miscanthus can be widely grown locally in the Midwest, and Missouri and Illinois have already ventured out in growing this energy crop. Once planted, Miscanthus returns each year without being replanted. The crop does not need fertilizer and it grows in poor soil that is unfit for food crops.

CoolPlanet is developing a revolutionary process that can produce high grade fuels from biomass. The process produces an exact replacement for gasoline that can operate in your current cars. Their proprietary biomass fractionator technology extracts useful hydrocarbons from biomass, leaving behind the excess carbon as a high purity solid. By burying this carbon in an appropriate manner, they can make deficient farmland fertile while sequestering carbon for hundreds of years. The result is a negative carbon content fuel. Their investors include BP, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners

CoolPlanet Energy Systems is also developing a revolutionary thermal/mechanical processor which directly inputs raw biomass such as woodchips, crop residue, algae, etc. The company is also developing a range of simple one-step catalytic conversion processes which mate with the fractionators’ output gas streams to produce useful products such as high octane gasoline, synthetic diesel and proprietary ultra-high crop yield super fuels. They plan to package their proprietary biomass fractionators together with an "open architecture" chemical processing section in standard modular shipping containers which can each produce up to 2 million gallons of fuel per year. These modular fuel processors can be equipped with CoolPlanet Energy Systems' catalytic conversion processes and/or your own selection of dryers, separators, catalytic processes, etc.