Iowa Public Television   Farmers Convert Switchgrass To Electric
Power  posted on February 9, 2007  The campaign to reduce global
warming is, if you'll pardon the expression, heating up.  While
most environmental issues seem to have a polarizing effect, the
issue is transcending traditional political and social
boundaries and creating a few estranged bedfellows in the
process.  It seems that everyone from former Vice President Al
Gore to evangelical Christian writer Rick Warren is trying to
get Americans to respond to "the inconvenient truth" of global
warming.  Even those targeted as key emitters of CO2, like power
plants, are looking for ways to reduce or sequester their
emissions.  One innovative project is attempting to replace a
portion of its coal with cleaner-burning switchgrass. David
Miller reports on the Midwestern farmers who are betting their
grasses on energy.  Farmers Convert Switchgrass To Electric
Power The connection between Southern Iowa farmland and a coal
fired power plant would appear to