Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2512-2522

  Dwivedi, Puneet ^a,b   Wang, Weiwei ^a   Hudiburg, Tara ^a,d   Jaiswal, Deepak ^a   Parton, William ^c   Long, Stephen ^a   Delucia, Evan ^a   Khanna, Madhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ENERGY POLICY; ETHANOL; GAS EMISSIONS; GASOLINE; GREENHOUSE GASES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TAXATION;

ABATEMENT COSTS; CELLULOSIC BIOFUELS; GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG); INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; POLICY INCENTIVES; PRODUCTION COST; RENEWABLE FUELS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS;

CELLULOSIC ETHANOL;

ALCOHOL; BIOFUEL; GASOLINE; NITROGEN FERTILIZER;

CELLULOSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ETHANOL; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLICY MAKING; PRODUCTION COST; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROPPING SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HARVEST; MAIZE; NO TILLAGE; PANICUM VIRGATUM; SOIL; UNITED STATES; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

MISCANTHUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; ZEA MAYS;

BIOFUELS; ETHANOL; GASOLINE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; UNITED STATES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84923106772     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5052588     Document Type: Article

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