Utah biodiesel plot draws interest of US military
September 20, 2010
A 200-acre test plot of land near Salt Lake City's airport is drawing interest from the U.S. Army to evaluate whether it can exploit similar underutilized land on government property near military installations to grow oilseed feedstocks for biodiesel production, according to Dallas Hanks, doctoral student at Utah State University's department of plants, soils and climate. The effort, part of the Freeways-to-Fuel Initiative and spearheaded by Hanks in 2007, focuses on ways to grow various oilseed crops on nontraditional agronomic areas such as along roadways, airports, railroad areas and other government lands.
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