Although the price of cellulosic feedstocks will likely remain lower than that of grain, the
added costs of pretreatment and enzymes for cellulosic biomass refining will likely continue …

To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative
analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored …

Ground, in which he argued that the combustion of fossil fuel would lead to global warming.
He was right, so we must deal with the consequences of global climate change and …

Most people think of ethanol as the only liquid biofuel, and that the major advances in
biofuels will revolve around enzymatic conversion of cellulosic or woody biomass (including …

ALTHOUGH RUDOLF DIESEL IMAGINED THAT HIS EPONYMOUS ENGINE WOULD BE
FUELED BY VEGETABLE oils, the widespread availability of inexpensive petroleum during …

BACKGROUND Cellulosic biofuels offer environmental benefits not available from grain-
based biofuels and are a cornerstone of efforts to meet transportation fuel needs in a future …

In 2008, the world produced approximately 87 gigaliters of liquid biofuels, which is roughly
equal to the volume of liquid fuel consumed by Germany that year. Essentially, all of this …

Ethanol produced from cellulosic biomass is examined as a large-scale transportation fuel.
Desirable features include ethanol's fuel properties as well as benefits with respect to urban …

The Editorial “Getting serious about biofuels”(SE Koonin, 27 Jan., p. 435) emphasizes three
important societal concerns that are addressed by a conversion to bioenergy: security of …

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