1. Climate Change

3. FOSSIL fuels ~300 million years ago (before dinosaurs!): CoalOil Now:

4. CO 2 Burning Fossil Fuels puts EXTRA carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

5. Carbon dioxide cycles naturally CO 2 Carbon from grass is converted to CO 2 by herbivores and decomposers

6. Climate Change SOLUTION? Bioenergy or Biofuels or Grassoline CO 2 When using grassoline as a fuel, CO 2 that is produced would have been released into the atmosphere naturally through other processes

7. The BEST Experiment Question: Is Grassoline Sustainable? Or How green is grassoline? BioEnergy SusTainability Experiment

8. What kind of grassWhat kind of grass to make grassoline from?—lots of species (prairie) or just one species (switchgrass)? fertilizeShould we fertilize to make the grass grow bigger? Will doing this create other kinds of pollution? ecosystem cutWhat will happen to the ecosystem when we cut the grass (to make fuel)? The BEST Experiment Question: Is Grassoline Sustainable? or

9. Research Plots

10. FERTILIZED PRAIRIE HARVESTED FERTILIZED SWITCH HARVESTED SWITCH HARVESTED PRAIRIE HARVESTED FERTILIZED PRAIRIE FERTILIZED SWITCH SWITCH PRAIRIE Block Layout

11. Planting the plots! Harper Creek school district

12. Planting the plots! Olivet school district

13. http://www.ndep.us/Biofuel Biofuel Video