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Energy and greenhouse gas emission effects of corn and cellulosic ethanol with technology improvements and land use changes

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2011

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Wang, Michael Q., Han, Jeongwoo, Haq, Zia, Tyner, Wallace E., Wu, May, and Elgowainy, Amgad, 2011, Energy and greenhouse gas emission effects of corn and cellulosic ethanol with technology improvements and land use changes: Biomass and Bioenergy, v. 35, iss. 5, p. 1885-1896.

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Use of ethanol as a transportation fuel in the United States has grown from 76 dam3 in 1980 to over 40.1 hm3 in 2009 — and virtually all of it has been produced from corn. It has been debated whether using corn ethanol results in any energy and greenhouse gas benefits. This issue has been especially critical in the past several years, when indirect effects, such as indirect land use changes, associated with U.S. corn ethanol production are considered in evaluation. In the past three years, modeling of direct and indirect land use changes related to the production of corn ethanol has advanced significantly. Meanwhile, technology improvements in key stages of the ethanol life cycle (such as corn farming and ethanol production) have been [...]

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ISSN WECC 0961-9534

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citationTypeJournal Article
journalBiomass and Bioenergy
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typePages
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