Climate Change

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Climate Change
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FOSSIL fuels
Now
300 million years ago (before dinosaurs!)
Coal
Oil
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• Burning Fossil Fuels puts EXTRA carbon dioxide
  into the atmosphere

CO2
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Carbon dioxide cycles naturally
Carbon from grass is converted to CO2 by
herbivores and decomposers
CO2
CO2
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Climate Change SOLUTION?

• Bioenergy or Biofuels or Grassoline

When using grassoline as a fuel, CO2 that is
produced would have been released into the
atmosphere naturally through other processes
CO2
CO2
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The BEST Experiment QuestionIs Grassoline
Sustainable?OrHow green is grassoline?

• BioEnergy SusTainability Experiment

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The BEST Experiment QuestionIs Grassoline
Sustainable?

• What kind of grass to make grassoline from?lots
  of species (prairie) or just one species
  (switchgrass)?
• Should we fertilize to make the grass grow
  bigger? Will doing this create other kinds of
  pollution?
• What will happen to the ecosystem when we cut the
  grass (to make fuel)?

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Research Plots
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Block Layout
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Planting the plots!
Harper Creek school district
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Planting the plots!
Olivet school district
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Biofuel Video
http//www.ndep.us/Biofuel