... Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems David Pimentel Editor Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems Benefits and Risks 123 Editor Dr David Pimentel Cornell University College of ... of the Optimum Population Trust (UK), started by the late David Willey, and since 2002 has been editor of the biannual OPT Journal Thomas Edgar Gangwer has a B.S in Chemistry from Lebanon Valley ... economics and complex hierarchy theory He is a professor at the University of Tokushima and an editorial board member of Ecological Economics, Organization and Environment, and International...
... Food, Energy, and Society Niwot Co., University Press of Colorado 363 pp This is a revised edition; the first edition was published by John Wiley and Sons in 1979 Shapouri, H., Duffield, J.A., and Wang, ... www.members.aol.com/optjournal/sugar.doc Hayden, H.C 2004 The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World (2nd edition) Vales Lake Publishing LLC P.O Box 7595, Pueblo West, CO 81007-0595 280pp OPTJ 3/1 2003 ... yield would only be about 6290 liters Regarding sugarcane itself, Howard Hayden, in the revised edition of his book The Solar Fraud, page 242, states that the power density of “Sugar cane (whole...
... Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems David Pimentel Editor Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems Benefits and Risks 123 Editor Dr David Pimentel Cornell University College of ... of the Optimum Population Trust (UK), started by the late David Willey, and since 2002 has been editor of the biannual OPT Journal Thomas Edgar Gangwer has a B.S in Chemistry from Lebanon Valley ... economics and complex hierarchy theory He is a professor at the University of Tokushima and an editorial board member of Ecological Economics, Organization and Environment, and International...
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... explains most of the differences Figure 3.1 displays the type and number of jobs the IRFA research credited to lowa First, from the original number of 46,938 jobs are subtracted the 19,733 jobs linked ... underwriting New ethanol plants across the U.S are reaping large amounts of risk-reducing tax credits, subsidies, and other kinds of public support According to one recent study (Koplow 2007), ... production ranged from $1.42 to $1.84 per gallon in 2006 considering all capital development, credits, and other support Using the same criteria for comparison that study concluded that subsidies...
... Tax Credit (low) Volumetric Excise Tax Credit (high) USDA Bioenergy Program Reductions in state motor fuel taxes State production, blender, retailer incentives Federal small producer tax credit ... $3 billion per year as domestic production grows 4.3.1.2 Tax Credits and Exemptions The federal Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), enacted in 2004 by the Jumpstart Our Business Strength ... excise tax credit would generate even larger declines in domestic prices (between $0.29 and $0.36 per gallon, per Elobeid and Tokgoz (2006) and Kruse et al (2007)) However, the tax credit subsidies...
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... http://www.Balance.org Hayden, H C (2004) The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World (2nd edition) (Vales Lake Publishing LLC P.O Box 7595, Pueblo West, CO 81007-0595 280pp) OPTJ 3/1 (2003) ... M (1996) Food, Energy, and Society (Niwot Co.: University Press of Colorado) This is a revised edition; the first one was published by John Wiley and Sons in 1979 Sharman, H (2005) Why windpower ... value of million kcal required an agricultural input of 7.8 million kcal However, an additional credit of 2.2 million kcal from the soy meal was assigned to the biodiesel, for an agricultural input...
... cost!), let alone a credit of fossil energy 8 Complex Systems Thinking and Renewable Energy Systems 205 But after having proved this point, if we take out the energy credit for by-products used ... there is another major problem with this accounting method: the rationale backing up the energy credit for by-products feeds does not address the issue of scale (Giampietro et al., 1997b; Giampietro ... biophysical inputs and outputs Details of our calculations are given in Box 8.2 (where no energy credit is given to the by-products in the form energy carriers) The two resulting benchmarks are:...
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... The L value is much more fuel composition and system efficiency dependent Capturing BFC energy credit for the use of biomass fuel in place of fossil fuel (e.g., co-generation, pre-heating a process ... specific energy exceptions or adjustments The consideration and justification of coproduct energy credit or labor caloric aspects is not eliminated by the BFCM, it is just excluded from the NEB analysis ... L., Boundy, B., Perlack, B., Davis, S & Saulsbury B (2006, September) Biomass Energy Data Book Edition 1, ORNL/TM-2006/571 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Chapter 11 Our...
... subsidized at the federal level by a nominal tax credit of 51 cents per gallon, and further supported by a tariff on importation of ethanol The tax credit has been shown in a report by the Congressional ... manner in which the credit is administered (Congressional Research Service, 2005) The federal subsidy is augmented in Oklahoma by legislation granting an additional tax credit of twenty cents/gallon ... most utilities in the U.S., but wind power in the U.S is still subsidized with a federal tax credit of 1.5 cents per kWh.14 Electricity is produced by wind with no gaseous emissions at all, though...
... the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, Oklahoma, in 1994 in a condensed format with small editorial adjustments and some additional notes.] Komar, P.D (2007) Higher Waves Along U.S East ... technologies yield co-products in addition to a primary energy product Most studies assume that a credit should be given for these co-products which increases the EROI by reducing the numerator for ... ethanol being an exception) If energy is the limiting variable to be optimized, a full energy credit for dry distiller grains or milk, may be aggressive, and the EROI of a technology giving full...
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