Number of Tennessee farms declining

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Story from WSMV news in Nashville...

According to new census numbers, the number of farms in Tennessee is in serious decline, forcing farmers to look to produce different crops.

Figures show the number of farms in Tennessee has shrunk by 9 percent during a five-year census study.

Farmer Bob Strasser isn't surprised by the figures because the workdays are long, tough and dealing with unpredictable weather is risky business.

Agriculture officials said many farms have closed as part of tobacco settlements. The drought, rising costs and urban sprawl also played a part in the decline.

Farmers today are now looking to the future. What is food today could be fuel tomorrow.
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Read the entire story at WSMV.

Can coffee grounds be used for biodiesel?

This might be useful for all the great coffee shops in Nashville to use their used coffee grounds this way as opposed to having to throw them out or use them for compost. The University of Nevada had three chemical engineers who believed they could extract oil from the used beans and convert them to a biodiesel fuel.

As it turns out, 15% of used coffee beans are oil and that could be very valuable to anyone using oil because the world produces and consumes over 16 billion pounds of coffee per year.

Read more of this interesting story at ARS Technica.

Long line for gas at the Exxon on Broadway

It has been up to 5 blocks long but this day, Saturday the 20, it was only a block long.

Sweet sorghum as the next great fuel?

Pass the biscuits and fill up the car.... ~Corey



The hardy sweet sorghum plant could be the miracle crop that provides cheap animal feed and fuel without straining the world's food supply or harming the environment, said scientists working on a pilot farming project in India.

"We consider sweet sorghum an ideal 'smart crop' because it produces food as well as fuel," William Dar, Director General of the non-profit International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) said in a statement.

Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is the world's fifth largest grain crop after rice, corn, wheat and barley.



Read the entire story HERE.

Billy Falcon at Fuel Tonight

Going to see Billy Falcon tonight at Fuel.

Performing tonight will be Mr. Falcon, his daughter Rose Falcon, Billy Block, the Mulch Brothers, maydayground and surprise guests. We don't know who the guests are but we hope it is Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.

8:00pm
Free

Fuel
114 Second Avenue S.
Nashville, Tn
379-2120