You can get 4 tons of hay per acre, it says here.
As for what it would cost, here's a source:
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/news/fbmu/2011/12-01/article_3_fbmu_12-09.html |
Not directly answerable, but this source says the following:
Using mature gasification technology, one ton of biomass can be used to produce 165 gallons of methanol, as opposed to only about 100 gallons of cellulosic ethanol
A gallon of water weighs 8.33lbs, methanol is less dense than water at a ratio of 0.7918 giving the weight of a gallon of methanol at 6.596 lbs or about 3 kg. About 1/8 of the mass of methanol is hydrogen. That's about 3/8 kg times 165 equals 61.835 kgs per ton of biomass. From the table above 181.25/61.835 equals
$2.93 per kg.
Given that other products are available from the biomass, and other considerations, it may be guessed that the price of this could be less than 9 bucks per kg.
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