Another Life:I like "miscanthus". The word sits happily on the tongue, like "hyacinth" or "alfalfa". "Elephant grass", however, is what will catch on, even if Miscanthus sinensis x "gigantea", to ...

Miscanthus is a hardy perennial grass producing very high yields of bamboo-like cane up to 3m tall. It is an environmentally friendly crop. It requires little or no pesticide or fertiliser inputs ...

The abbey raised money to purchase an Axe Biotech boiler from Poland for 130,000 euros ($142,653), and since then, they’ve used the miscanthus they grow to heat the abbey’s buildings ...

Who would have thought that a type of elephant grass, Miscanthus giganteus could replace coal as a fuel and help us meet our Kyoto targets? In fact, there are now two power plants in Britain using ...

Elephant grass absorbs carbon dioxide and bio-fuels cut greenhouse gas emissions Scientists in Wales and the United States have joined forces to complete the first genetic map of a bio-fuel crop ...

The UK government is spending £1.8 million on a scientific project that aims to breed a new seed-producing variety of tropical grass that could provide aviable source of fuel for power stations..

Elephant grass (Miscanthus giganteus) is more at home on the sides of mountains in Japan, but after planting trials in Ireland and other European centres and also in the US, it emerged as the ...

An exotic grass planted on farmland could have unexpected benefits for wildlife, scientists say. Elephant grass (Miscanthus) planted as a biomass crop is a valuable habitat for the brown hare ...

Miscanthus crops produce bamboo-like canes, up to three metres tall, and require little or no pesticide or fertilizer. The typical yield for Southern Britain is 15 tonnes per hectare.

THREE-HUNDRED farmers around Ireland, many of them in counties Cork and Limerick, have been growing the miscanthus energy crop, also known as elephant grass.

Elephant grass absorbs carbon dioxide and bio-fuels cut greenhouse gas emissions Scientists in Wales and the United States have joined forces to complete the first genetic map of a bio-fuel crop ...