relationship between expanded biofuel production and the cost of food. The economics of biofuels is inherently linked to policy … several articles address the welfare economics of governmental efforts to promote biofuels, with a focus on U.S. ethanol …

the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). The study was sponsored by the Biomass Program of the Assistant … Office of Policy and International Affairs (PI), Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), National … system. ETP was updated for this study with biomass resource data and biofuel production technology cost and performance data …

The use of gas fermentation for the production of low carbon biofuels such as ethanol or butanol from lignocellulosic … biomass is an area currently undergoing intensive research and development, with the first commercial units expected to … commence operation in the near future. In this process, biomass is first converted into carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H …

Analysis of the potential to supply 25% of projected 2025 U.S. transportation fuels indicates sufficient biomass … continue to be important feedstocks for ethanol and biodiesel production, but cellulose feedstocks (agricultural crop residues …

through the production of liquid biofuels, e.g., ethanol, as a substitute for liquid transport fuels. Biomass also offers a …Biomass offers an alternative renewable energy source to fossil fuels and can be used to produce energy directly or … some cases, e.g., forests, there is a tension between biomass energy and biomass sequestration of carbon. This paper …