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Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol

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The quantity of land available to grow biofuel crops without impacting food prices or greenhouse gas emissions from land conversion is limited. Therefore, bioenergy should maximize land-use efficiency when addressing transportation and climate change goals. Biomass could power either internal combustion or electric vehicles, but the relative land-use efficiency of these two energy pathways is [...]

Four basic steps in converting Biomass to Bioethanol/Ethanol

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Producing biomass results in the fixing of atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic carbon. Converting this biomass to a useable fermentation feedstock (typically some form of sugar) can be achieved using a variety of different process technologies. These processes for fermentation feedstock production constitute the critical differences among all of the bioethanol technology options. Fermenting the [...]