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Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Production of Energy and Co-products (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, 66
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This book is a collection of chapters concerning the use of biomass
for the sustainable production of energy and chemicals-an important
goal that will help decrease the production of greenhouse gases to
help mitigate global warming, provide energy security in the face
of dwindling petroleum reserves, improve balance of payment
problems and spur local economic development. Clearly there are
ways to save energy that need to be encouraged more. These include
more use of energy sources such as, among others, manure in
anaerobic digesters, waste wood in forests as fuel or feedstock for
cellulosic ethanol, and conservation reserve program (CRP) land
crops that are presently unused in the US. The use of biofuels is
not new; Rudolf Diesel used peanut oil as fuel in the ?rst engines
he developed (Chap. 8), and ethanol was used in the early 1900s in
the US as automobile fuel [Songstad et al. (2009) Historical
perspective of biofuels: learning from the past to rediscover the
future. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant 45:189-192). Brazil now
produces enough sugar cane ethanol to make up about 50% of its
transportation fuel needs (Chap. 4). The next big thing will be
cellulosic ethanol. At present, there is also the use of Miscanthus
x giganteous as fuel for power plants in the UK (Chap. 2), bagasse
(sugar cane waste) to power sugar cane mills (Chap. 4), and waste
wood and sawdust to power sawmills (Chap. 7).
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