Agricultural and forest biomass production for energy use

Integrating agricultural pest biocontrol into forecasts of energy biomass production

a Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, 164 Food Safety and Toxicology Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States b Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Agriculture Hall, 446 W Circle Dr., East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States c Department of Entomology, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Unive...

Sustainable agriculture and the production of biomass for energy use

Modern bioenergy is seen as a promising option to curb greenhouse gas emissions. There is, however, a potential competition for land and water between bioenergy and food crops. Another question is whether biomass for energy use can be produced in a sustainable manner given the current conventional agricultural production practices. Other than the land and water competition, this question is oft...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor BIOMASS TO ENERGY: FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR WILDFIRE REDUCTION, ENERGY PRODUCTION, AND OTHER BENEFITS

Non-Parametric Energy Use Efficiency, Energy Ratio and Specific Energy for Irrigated Wheat Crop Production

In this paper, non parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was subjected to the energy data of wheat producers in Punjab state, India, and technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies were calculated for farms both category wise and zone wise. The main objective was to determine the strength of the correlation between non-parametric efficiencies and indices such as energy ratio and speci...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor BIOMASS TO ENERGY: FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR WILDFIRE REDUCTION, ENERGY PRODUCTION, AND OTHER BENEFITS

Key assumptions, modeling structures and terminology were altered and refined to accommodate new thinking during the course of this study. The reader will observe in the appendices that the scenarios are referred to as " Scenarios 1, 2 and 3 " or " S1, S2 and S3. " In both the main text of the Final Report and in the Life Cycle Assessment appendix (Appendix 4), the former Scenario 1 (S1) was re...