Ethanol production: Energy, economic, and environmental losses

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 189, Issue , 2007, Pages 25-41

  Pimentel, David ^a   Patzek, Tad ^b   Cecil, Gerald ^c  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

BIOENERGY; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; MAIZE; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; SUGARCANE;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ETHANOL; SACCHARUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34547877071     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35368-5_2     Document Type: Article

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