This week’s Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts. All cuts are Dr. Calvin Parnell, Cotton Chair and Director of the Center for Agricultural Air Quality Engineering and Science at Texas A&M University.
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The U.S. is currently consuming a fourth of the world’s energy with only 5 percent of the world population. Dr. Calvin Parnell, Cotton Chair and Director of the Center for Agricultural Air Quality Engineering and Science at Texas A&M University, is working to design new methods for reducing our fossil fuel dependence by using renewable fuels.
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Although grain based ethanol has been the central focus of alternative fuel research, Parnell says other options are going to have to be considered.
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Parnell believes such technologies will be developed and practiced in the near future, but currently cotton growers need to concentrate on reducing their own dependence on fossil fuels.