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Biofuels, solar and wind as renewable energy systems

benefits and risks

by David Pimentel

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Table of Contents

Renewable and solar energy technologies : energy and environmental issues / David Pimentel

Can the Earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? / Tad W. Patzek

A review of the economic rewards and risks of ethanol production / David Swenson

Subsidies to ethanol in the United States / Doug Koplow and Ronald Steenblik

Peak oil, EROI, investments and the economy in an uncertain future / Charles A.S. Hall, Robert Powers and William Schoenberg

Wind power : benefits and limitations / Andrew R.B. Ferguson

Renewable diesel / Robert Rapier

Complex systems thinking and renewable energy systems / Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi

Sugarcane and ethanol production and carbon dioxide balances / Marcelo Dias De Oliveira

Biomass fuel cycle boundaries and parameters : current practice and proposed methodology / Tom Gangwer

Our food and fuel future / Edwin Kessler

A framework for energy alternatives : net energy, Liebig's law and multi-criteria analysis / Nathan John Hagens and Kenneth Mulder

Bio-ethanol production in Brazil / Robert M. Boddey, Luis Henrique de B. Soares, Bruno J.R. Alves and Segundo Urquiaga

Ethanol production : energy and economic issues related to U.S. and Brazilian sugarcane / David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek

Ethanol production using corn, switchgrass, and wood ; Biodiesel production using soybean / David Pimentel and Tad Patzek

Developing energy crops for thermal applications : optimizing fuel quality, energy security and GHG mitigation / Roger Samson, Claudia Ho Lem, Stephanie Bailey Stamler and Jeroen Dooper

Organic and sustainable agriculture and energy conservation / Tiziano Gomiero and Maurizio G. Paoletti

Biofuel production in Italy and Europe : benefits and costs, in the light of the present European Union biofuel policy / Sergio Ulgiati, Daniela Russi and Marco Raugei

The power density of ethanol from Brazilian sugarcane / Andrew R.B. Ferguson

A brief discussion on algae for oil production : energy issues / David Pimentel.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
[Dordrecht, Netherlands], New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
TJ808 .B54 2008, GE300-350TJ807-830GE, GE300-350, TJ808 .B56 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 504 p. :
Number of pages
504

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25184115M
Internet Archive
biofuelssolarwin00pime
ISBN 10
1402086539, 1402086547
ISBN 13
9781402086533, 9781402086540
LCCN
2008931413
OCLC/WorldCat
233934516

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16483995W

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