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Larkin, Narasimhan K.; O'Neill, Susan M.; Solomon, Robert; … - 2009

Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts from fires...

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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Economics for Irrigated Cropping Systems in Northeastern Colorado.

Archer, David W.; Halvorson, Ardell D. - 2010

Recent soil and crop management technologies have potential for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions; however, these management strategies must be profitable if they are to be adopted by producers. The economic feasibility of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions in irrigated cropping systems was...

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Integrierter Umweltschutz in der Metallerzeugung: Simulationsgestützte operative Produktionsplanung zur Optimierung metallurgischer Abfallverwertungsprozesse. Schlussbericht des Forschungsvorhabens

Rentz, Otto; Fröhling, Magnus; Nebel, Falk; … - 2006

Als Resultat der Metallerzeugung und -verarbeitung fallen zwangsläufig eine Reihe von Abfällen an. Zur Aufbereitung und Verwertung eines Teils dieser Kuppelprodukte, hauptsächlich Stäuben und Schlämmen aus Gasreinigungen, konnte sich in den vergangenen Jahren die Verwertung in modifizierten...

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Barriers to a biofuels transition in the U.S. liquid fuels sector

Webber, Michael E. (contributor) - 2009

Demand for liquid fuels (i.e., petroleum products) has burdened the U.S. with major challenges, including national security and economic concerns stemming from rising petroleum imports; impacts of global climate change from rising emissions of CO2; and continued public health concerns from...

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The Relative Impacts of U.S. Bio-Fuel Policies on Fuel-Energy Markets: A Comparative Static Analysis.

Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn; Daberkow, Stan - 2010

analysis to measure the relative magnitudes of the impacts of tax credits and blending mandates on fuel-energy market … gasoline decline as the biofuel tax credit increases, but they increase as the rate of the blending mandate increases. Second …, the shadow value of a blending mandate represents the marginal rate of substitution between the marginal price change …

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World Biofuels Study

Alfstad,T. - 2009

This report forms part of a project entitled 'World Biofuels Study'. The objective is to study world biofuel markets and to examine the possible contribution that biofuel imports could make to help meet the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)....

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Understanding and Informing the Policy Environment: State-Level Renewable Fuels Standards

Brown, E.; Cory, K.; Arent, D. - 2008

Renewable fuels standard (RFS) policies are becoming a popular public policy mechanism for developing the market for renewable fuels in the transportation sector. During the past decade, U.S. states and several countries began implementing these more market-based (less command and control)...

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Scientific analysis is essential to assess biofuel policy effects: in response to the paper by Kim and Dale on "Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and improving analytical methodologies"

Kline, Keith L; Oladosu, Gbadebo A; Dale, Virginia H; … - 2011

Vigorous debate on the effects of biofuels derives largely from the changes in land use estimated using economic models designed mainly for the analysis of agricultural trade and markets. The models referenced for land-use change (LUC) analysis in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final...

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The Future of Biofuels: An Economic Analysis of the Design and Operation of a Microalgae Facility in Texas and the Southwestern United States

Richardson, James W. (contributor); … - 2010

The world of energy is changing. With rising energy costs and concerns over thesupply of energy materials, more research is being conducted into alternative sources offuel and microalgae is one of the sources being researched, although much research hadbeen conducted on it as a part of the...

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Environmental and Social Impacts from Palm based Biofuel Development in Indonesia

Andriani, Rubeta; Andrianto, Agus; Komarudin, Heru; … - 2011

"This paper reviews oil palm biofuel development and analyzes social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. Three plantation study sites were selected in West Papua (Manokwari), West Kalimantan (Kubu Raya) and Papua (Boven Digoel) and used as case studies to illustrate...

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