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to show how to use it in the agroforestry management. …
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The purpose of the study was to determine the efficiency and costs of energy biomass transportations, when using a …
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The objective of this article is to help biomass heating industry in its marketing tasks, by helping the industry … segment its consumers so that marketing efforts can be targeted at households that will purchase and use biomass home heating … motives that influence biomass equipment purchase. One-in-three households in the nation possess these values and hence are …
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Biofuels are prominent in current discussion both as a solution to problems and as a creator of problems. They have promise as a substitute for fossil fuels, particularly for petroleum as the raw material for transportation fuel. But biofuels also have pitfalls, especially when produced at a...
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forestry process chains in an energy system model, on a regional scale. The main focus is on land use for biomass production … biomass potentials. The optimisation tool was applied in two case studies. Findings – The optimisation results allow an … revealed the limits on biomass availability, even in rural areas, and the fossil fuel price sensitivity of an optimal system …
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Purpose – In the Baltic Sea area, wood fuels have been traded internationally on a relatively large‐scale since the 1990s, with trade flows primarily from the Baltic States to Sweden and Denmark. This has been driven by strong demand for renewable energy in Scandinavia, inexpensive wood...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of a proposed biomass facility on prospective property … the proposed biomass facility. Findings – The paper found no statistically significant difference in the respondents' WTP … for a house based on whether they read about the baseline scenario (no mention of the biomass plant) or the proposed …
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Purpose – A variety of biomass plantations are being raised for energy production. This case study is on energy … well as biomass as agro residue (solid fuel). The purpose of the study is to estimate total energy yields of oil bearing …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the viability of using bamboo hybrid fencing fertigated with grey water as a means of providing energy to rural communities in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper establishes such returns by developing a decision...
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may affect the competitiveness of more mature bioenergy technologies such as bioheat through competition in the biomass … biofuel production in Norway. Findings – The results show that there are regional variations in biomass price effects … wood biomass qualities will face lower biomass prices than technologies using only one species as raw material, causing …
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