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The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass … represent actual policies enacted by federal and state governments to provide incentive to biomass utilization and are aimed at … better allocate limited resources. Effects of limiting the size of trees harvested and access to biomass markets were also …
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analyze the respective stages of the bioeconomy in the industry life cycle (ILC). Within the three fields of biomass …
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with special attention to biomass and multi-product crops for Poland. The potential to boost production of bioelectricity … of the bioelectricity sector will have to be based on biomass crops explicitly grown for energy purposes. The competition … between agriculture and biomass for scarce land remains limited, given the availability of relatively poor land types and …
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behave as if they maximize their net biomass subject to constraints which express the organisms' risk of being preyed upon … during predation. Like consumers, organisms face a 'budget constraint' requiring their expenditure on prey biomass not to … exceed their revenue from supplying own biomass. Short-run ecosystem equilibria are defined and derived. The net biomass …
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This paper presents a geospatial mapping model for assessing spatial distribution and demand of biomass sources for … household energy use in Nepal. In the context of rural households, correlation between supply and demand of biomass is crucial … topographical regions: lowlands, hills, and mountains, where geospatial distribution and demand of biomass are different. The supply …
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types of agricultural and wood biomass and for a wide variety of organic residues suitable for this purpose, these … agricultural biomass, wood, energy crops and food waste. …
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for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and … divergence of prices for biomass and land in both subsystems. Finally, we determine values of all components of the ecosystem in …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the strengths and weaknesses of theBiomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) as it was implemented according to Sect.9011 of the 2008 Farm Bill and to provide insight into the challenges of increasing theproduction of second-generation bioenergy...
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) renewable energy system, the focus of this thesis is biomass-based energy for: 1) The prominent contextual relevance these … construction and microeconomic interpretation of three case studies.First, the Brazilian biomass-based renewable industry is … working directly with grid-connected biomass-energy plants in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Additionally, the case study presents …
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Woody biomass in terms of short rotation coppice (SRC) could be a promising alternative for producing biomass to … an investment reluctance concerning building biomass heating stations. In the present study therefore, we focuses on the … further motivate farmers to cultivate SRC different types of incentives offered by the biomass heating station are …
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