Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply
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The purpose of this report is to determine whether the land resources of the United States are capable of producing a sustainable supply of biomass sufficient to displace 30% or more of the country's present petroleum consumption.
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The US Department of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture estimate that over 50 million oven-dry metric tons of smaller material could be recovered in fuel treatments across the United States for biomass energy.
“The US Department of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture estimate that over 50 million oven-dry metric tons of smaller material could be recovered in fuel treatments across the United States for biomass energy (Perlack et al. 2005).”
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Costs of wildfire suppression in the United States from 1994 to 2004 averaged over $400 per ha burned.
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- Authors
- US Department of Energy (USDOE), W., Perlack, R., USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), O. O. S. T. B. T. O. (., Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), O. R., USDA, Wright, L., Turhollow, A., Graham, R., Stokes, B., & Erbach, D.
- Affiliations
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- United States Department of Agriculture (US)
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- 2005-04-01
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- DOE (AC05-00OR22725)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Keywords
- biomass feedstock, bioenergy, bioproducts, land resources, biomass supply, oil displacement, technical feasibility, sustainable biomass production
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