Cattails and Biomass energy

Here are is a cattail plant showing the starchy root.       

From which feed or fuel (ethanol) can be made           

The leaves and stems also contain sugar, just as do        

the sugar cane plant. Cattail tissue is soft and easier       

to complete enzyme reduction of cellulose than wood

Here are cattails in their natural habitat

Cattails serve a role of water purification by 

trapping nutrients and saving as biomass. 

In nature this stabilized the ecosystem and serves the

food chain

Cattails are also tool for biological water treatment

In storm-water retention  holding ponds

In industrial effluent treatment               

In municipal sewage treatment lagoons 

Now our study topic - a new application. If we can show profit from extracting food and energy value from cattails the we will be able to expand this concept to region wide watershed water treatment in drainage basins that are polluted with nutrients and chemicals from agriculture, urban and industry

This is our vision