Lielbritānijā cukurbiešu laukus sāk aizstāt ar daudzgadīgajām energokultūrām

"Yorkshire farmers are fortunate in one sense, in that there are developing biofuel industries in both Humberside and Teesside.
There is potentially a good market, therefore, both for grains such as wheat grown as a biofuel, and for oilseed rape.
Sugar beet itself can also be used to produce bioethanol. Sadly, the cost of transporting the beet to British Sugar's Wissington refinery in Norfolk means it is uneconomical for local farmers to continue growing it for that reason.
Drax Power Station, pictured, could conceivably in future take sugar beet as a biomass fuel, to burn alongside coal.
Given the high cost of processing the beet, however, that was some way off.
The power station does, however, hope to expand its use of willow coppice and elephant grass, both of which are being grown locally by farmers.
By 2009 it was hoped ten per cent of the electricity Drax produced would be the result of co-firing with willow and elephant grass.
This would save more than two million tonnes of CO2 a year - as well as proving an expanded market for farmers."

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