Giant King Grass has already been successfully grown in China. Giant King Grass has similar characteristics to sugar cane but is not a food crop as it develops cellulosic material rather than sugar. It has been demonstrated to have the highest energy yield per hectare of potential energy crops. The government of Thailand has set a target of 3,700 MW of biomass capacity by 2022.
It is usually represented as follows: Rate of Natural Increase = Crude Birth Rate-Crude Death Rate This version of the rate of natural increase shows net addition of people from births and deaths per thousand people in the population.
Under our high income assumption, residential natural gas usage will increase from a level of 17.6 Bcf in 2000 to 21.9 Bcf in 2010 to 27.3 Bcf in 2020. This represents a 24.7 percent increase over the short run forecast period, and a 55.5 percent increase over the longer run forecast period.