Gerbens-Leenes, P.W.; Hoekstra, A.Y.; van der Meer, Th. - In: Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 4, pp. 1052-1060
This paper assesses the water footprint (WF) of different primary energy carriers derived from biomass expressed as the amount of water consumed to produce a unit of energy (m3/GJ). The paper observes large differences among the WFs for specific types of primary bio-energy carriers. The WF...