We’re getting there folks.  It may not be at a rate that we’d like, but we’re getting there.  Let’s face it, we’re Americans.  We’re used to getting what we want, when we want it, and lots of it.  This whole green thing is just moving to slowly for most Americans.  We’re fickle.  If its not the latest craze, the latest media darling, we’re not interested.

Well, here’s an articlethat gives me hope.  It appears we may have a new business in switchgrass production, processing, and delivery if more tests come out as good as this one.  Switchgrass appears to be a whole heapin’ helpin’ better than corn at creating ethanol.  Here’s the line from the article that gives me the most hope:

After crunching the numbers, Vogel and his colleagues found that ethanol produced from switchgrass yields 540% of the energy used to grow, harvest, and process it into ethanol. Equally important, the researchers found that the switchgrass is carbon neutral, as it absorbs essentially the same amount of greenhouse gases while it’s growing as it emits when burned as fuel.

That’s the kind of ingenuity we’ve come to expect from America, and it’s finally been applied to the environment.  Now we just need some enterprising entrepreneur to figure out how to make large scale production of ethanol from switchgrass feasible and cost effective enough.  Someone out there with more smarts than me should be able to figure out that part.  As I said, environmental news that gives me hope.