Sustainable method inclusive of facilities to grow and process crops for food and biomass for energy in an environmentally acceptable manner

• Main Authors: MCCARTHY RICHARD OWEN, CALDERON ALBERT, LAUBIS TERRY JAMES
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.04.2016
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES ORIMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL; SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; TRAPPING; WATERING

An advanced method and facility for growing abundant crops for food together with a sustainable growth of biomass for energy within a farm setting measuring (by way of example) 600 acres and yielding some 180 bushels of corn per acre, amounting to a total farm yield of 108,000 bushels. By increasing the yield of 180 to 270 bushels per acre with drainage, irrigation, and a pond that accepts water in wet weather and dispenses water for irrigation in dry weather, and supplementing with fertilizer, the 108,000 bushels can be produced with only 400 acres, this freeing 200 acres for growing biomass to be harvested and delivered to a centralized processor (preferably in pellet form) and efficiently converts the biomass into a biofuel rich in H2 for transportation such as gasoline and a low-Btu biofuel to generate biopower while co-producing fertilizer to enhance growth of both crops and biomass.