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Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses

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The supply of “conventional” oil is projected to peak before 2010, and its decline thereafter cannot be compensated fully by other liquid fuels (Youngquist and Duncan 2003). The United States critically needs to develop liquid fuel replacements for oil in the near future. The search for alternative liquid fuels has focused on the use of biomass.

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  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, 290 Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Gerald Cecil

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Pimentel, D., Patzek, T., Cecil, G. (2007). Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses. In: Whitacre, D.M., et al. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 189. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35368-5_2

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