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The optimal switchgrass genotype from among 250 alternatives for producing biomass for use in an enzymatic hydrolysis … conversion process to produce ethanol was determined. The consequences of the selected genotype, relative to the most common … commercially available variety, on ethanol production costs and on land requirements are determined. …
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estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013 …. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase in corn ethanol volume, we find that each billion gallon expansion in ethanol …, projection year, inclusion of ethanol co-products, international biofuel production, and baseline and policy ethanol volumes …
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Brazilian ethanol markets using a multi-market international ethanol model calibrated on 2005 market data and policies. The … removal of trade distortions induces a 23.9 percent increase in the price of world ethanol on average between 2006 and 2015 … relative to the baseline. The U.S. domestic ethanol price decreases by 13.6 percent, which results in a 7.2 percent decline in …
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We employ a multi-region computable general equilibrium model of the world economy to estimate changes in worldwide food insecurity that result from the imposition of the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard.
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gallon cellulosic ethanol plant located in south west Kansas that requires approximately 700,000 metric dry tons of biomass …When the lignocellulosic biofuels industry reaches maturity and many types of biomass sources become economically … biomass stored for off-season. The sensitivity of feedstock costs to changes in yield patterns, harvesting and transport costs …
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Agricultural biofuels require the use of scarce land, and this land has opportunity cost. We explore the objective function of a social planner who includes a land constraint in the optimization decision to minimize environmental cost. The results show that emissions should be measured on a per...
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actual costs of producing cellulosic biomass and converting it to cellulosic ethanol. Understanding of the implications of … implicit carbon price (or carbon credit) needed to sustain a biomass market and cellulosic ethanol industry. We evaluate … cellulosic biomass production is typically smaller scale than conventional crop production, limited knowledge exists of the …
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Among many, increasing the price of municipal water is considered to be the most effective mechanism for enhancing municipal water conservation, whether during times of drought or not. However, increasing the price of something that is considered to be, literally, a life-giving resource is...
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hundred percent of ethanol. This paper investigates how motorists arbitrage between hydrous ethanol and gasoline using … demands for hydrous ethanol and gasoline. I estimate using nonlinear seemingly unrelated regressions the demands for hydrous … ethanol and gasoline in Brazil, and motorists preferences for hydrous ethanol. I nd that on average, accounting for the …
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