Farm-level feasibility of bioenergy depends on variations across multiple sectors

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Myhre, Mitchell ^a,b   Barford, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ALLIANT ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

bioenergy; bioheat; biomass; land use

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; PROPANE;

BIO-ENERGY; BIO-ENERGY SYSTEMS; BIO-HEAT; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; PRODUCTION EXPENSE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY RESOURCE; FARM; GRASS; LAND USE CHANGE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84876176477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015005     Document Type: Article

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