Sue,
A very interesting article!
I wish that they said a little more about actually using it as a fuel ie, could you burn it in your wood stove ......

I loved the look of this grass grown as a very large patch. I will have to take a few chunks off mine & get a lovely big patch started next spring!!!
a.

another article...

Here is a link that might be useful: miscanthus as bioenergy

so if you covered 20% of Illinois land literally with Miscanthus, you could generate all of Illinois' electricity needs? That doesnt factor in the fuel needed to power the machinery that would harvest and transport the grass. That is a lot of grass! Maybe it could replace corn. Do they use the corn stalks for anything?

Is the way we consume energy really possible possible to replace with bio-fuels without changing things. I dunno.

I've got some 'Giganteus' started this year in my yard, so maybe I'm help providing future rhizomes for the new era