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This spreadsheet serves as an Input file to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Waste-to-Energy System Simulation (WESyS) model developed in Stella Pro (isee systems, Lebanon, NH). WESyS is a national-level system dynamics model that simulates energy production from three sectors of the...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This spreadsheet serves as an Input file to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Waste-to-Energy System Simulation (WESyS) model developed in Stella Pro (isee systems, Lebanon, NH). WESyS is a national-level system dynamics model that simulates energy production from three sectors of the...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This spreadsheet serves as an Input file to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Waste-to-Energy System Simulation (WESyS) model developed in Stella Pro (isee systems, Lebanon, NH). WESyS is a national-level system dynamics model that simulates energy production from three sectors of the...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This spreadsheet serves as an Input file to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Waste-to-Energy System Simulation (WESyS) model developed in Stella Pro (isee systems, Lebanon, NH). WESyS is a national-level system dynamics model that simulates energy production from three sectors of the...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Growing interest in renewable and domestically produced energy motivates the evaluation of woody bioenergy feedstock production. In the southeastern U.S., woody feedstock plantations, primarily of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), would be intensively managed over short rotations (10-12 years) to...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Co-Optimization (Co-Optima) initiative is accelerating the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable fuels and high-efficiency, low-emission engines with a first-of-its-kind effort to simultaneously tackle fuel and engine research and development...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Biorefineries, like other industrial facilities, require permits to emit air pollutants. Typically, air emission permits both to begin construction and later to begin operation are required. The permit applications necessitate interpretation of air quality regulations to determine applicability,...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Biomass Energy Data Book is a statistical compendium prepared and published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under contract with the Biomass Program in the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) program of the Department of Energy (DOE). Designed for use as a convenient reference...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Waste to Energy System Simulation Model (WESyS) - Scenario Inputs and Supplemental Tableau Workbook
Daniel Inman, Ethan Warner, Anelia Milbrandt, Alberta Carpenter, Ling Tao, Emily Newes, and Steve Peterson (Lexidyne, LLC)
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Conversion of biogas from organic waste materials to usable energy...
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NREL
The Federal Activities Report on the Bioeconomy has been prepared to emphasize the significant potential for an even stronger U.S. bioeconomy through the production and use of biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. Bioeconomy activities have already touched on the interests of many federal agencies...
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U.S. Department of Energy, Bioenergy Technologies Office
Abstract: Cellulosic-based biofuels are needed to help meet energy needs and to strengthen rural investment and development in the midwestern United States (US). This analysis identifies 11 categories of indicators to measure progress toward sustainability that should be monitored to determine if...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nitrogen (N) is an important nutrient as it often limits productivity, but in excess can impair water quality. Most studies on watershed N cycling have occurred in upland forested catchments where snowmelt dominates N export; fewer studies have focused on low-relief watersheds that lack snow. We...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
This dataset reports the pre-treatment hydrology and pre- and post-treatment water quality data from a watershed-scale experiment that is evaluating the effects of growing short-rotation loblolly pine for bioenergy on water quality and quantity in the southeastern U.S. The experiment is taking...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A new approach to hydrogen production using an integrated pyrolysis–microbial electrolysis process is described. The aqueous stream generated during pyrolysis of switchgrass was used as a substrate for hydrogen production in a microbial electrolysis cell, achieving a maximum hydrogen production...
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ORNL
Transitioning to a larger biofuels industry requires a robust biomass-to-biofuels system of systems that operates within existing agriculture, forestry, energy, and transportation markets. Using the existing fuel supply chain infrastructure as a framework, this paper discusses a vision for biomass-...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The Biomass Scenario Model (BSM) is a system dynamics model that represents the entire biomass-to-biofuels supply chain, from feedstock to fuel use. The BSM is a complex model that has been used for extensive analyses; the model and its results can be better understood if input data used for...
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NREL
Excess nutrients from agriculture in the Mississippi River drainage, USA have degraded water quality in
freshwaters and contributed to anoxic conditions in downstream estuaries. Consequently, water quality is a
significant concern associated with conversion of lands to bioenergy production. This...
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ORNL
There is an inextricable link between energy production and food/feed/fiber cultivation with available water resources. Currently in the United States, agriculture represents the largest sector of consumptivewater usemaking up 80.7%of the total. Electricity generation in the U.S. is projected to...
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The sustainability of future bioenergy production rests on more than continual improvements in its environmental, economic, and social impacts. The emergence of new biomass feedstocks, an expanding array of conversion pathways, and expected increases in overall bioenergy production are connecting...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A framework for selecting and evaluating indicators of bioenergy sustainability is presented.
This framework is designed to facilitate decision-making about which indicators are useful for assessing
sustainability of bioenergy systems and supporting their deployment. Efforts to develop...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The stakeholders involved in management of land and carbon (C) are diverse. Farmers and foresters are concerned with plants and management practices that are most likely to sustain profits. The opportunity to sell C sequestration credits adds a new
dimension to production strategies. Land managers...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Pages 75-97 in W. McShea, J. S. Davies, N. Bhumpakphan (Editors) The Ecology and Conservation of Seasonally Dry Forests in Asia.
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Humans currently spend over 3 billion person-hours per week playing computer games. Most of these games are purely for entertainment, but use of computer games for education has also expanded dramatically. At the same time, experimental games have become a staple of social science research but have...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In order to aid operations that promote sustainability goals, researchers and stakeholders use sustainability assessments. Although assessments take various forms, many utilize diverse sets of indicators numbering anywhere from two to over 2000. Indices, composite indicators, or aggregate values...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The US Congress passed the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) seven years ago. Since then, biofuels have gone from darling to scapegoat for many environmentalists, policy makers, and the general public. The reasons for this shift are complex and include concerns about environmental degradation,...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
As with all land transformation activities, effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services of producing feedstocks for biofuels are highly variable and context specific. Advances toward more sustainable biofuel production benefit from a system's perspective, recognizing spatial heterogeneity...
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Center for Bioenergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Understanding the development of the biofuels industry in the United States is important to policymakers and industry. The Biomass Scenario Model (BSM) is a system dynamics model of the biomass-to-biofuels system that can be used to explore policy effects on biofuels development. Because of the...
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NREL
In support of the national goals for biofuel use in the United States, numerous technologies have been developed that convert biomass to biofuels. Some of these biomass to biofuel conversion technology pathways are operating at commercial scales, while others are in earlier stages of development....
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model Zotero References
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Biofuels are promoted in the United States through aggressive legislation as one part of an overall strategy to lessen dependence on imported energy as well as to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. Meeting mandated...
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NREL
Deforestation due to ever-increasing activities of the growing human population has been an issue of major concern for the global environment. It has been especially serious in the last several decades in the developing countries. A population-deforestation model has been developed by the authors...
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University of Tokyo
U.S. Forest Cover for 25 Species from 1991
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Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)
Freight Analysis Framework Network dataset of the National Transportation Atlas Database distributed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) - US DOT
In a previous paper we presented an update of the highly referenced climate classification map, that of Wladimir Koppen, which was published for the first time in 1900 and updated in its latest version by Rudolf Geiger in 1961. This updated world map of Koppen-Geiger climate classification was...
The most frequently used climate classification map is that ofWladimir Köppen, presented in its latest version
1961 by Rudolf Geiger. A huge number of climate studies and subsequent publications adopted this or a
former release of the Köppen-Geiger map. While the climate classification concept has...
In 2002, the Strategic Energy Analysis Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed the first version of the Power Technologies Energy Data Book for the Office of Power Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The main purpose of the data book is to compile, in...
Hydrogen Data Book - contains a wide range of factual information on hydrogen and fuel cells (e.g., hydrogen properties, hydrogen production and delivery data, and information on fuel cells and fuel cell vehicles), and it also provides other data that might be useful in analyses of hydrogen...
In January 1976, the Transportation Energy Conservation (TEC) Division of the Energy Research and Development Administration contracted with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to prepare a Transportation Energy Conservation Data Book to be used by TEC staff in their evaluation of current and...
The 2011 Buildings Energy Data Book includes statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption. Data tables contain statistics related to construction, building technologies, energy consumption, and building characteristics.
The Building Technologies Program within the U.S....
Daily vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by county for Colorado is available here.
California traffic counts, such as vehicle miles of travel (VMT) and average annual daily (AAD) traffic data can be found here.
The link provides data and reports related to bioenergy - ethanol and biodiesel produced by Minnesota.
The link provides information on the E85 stations in Minnesota by city or county.
The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) and Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) are used to portray surface water on The National Map. The NHD represents the drainage network with features such as rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, coastline, dams, and streamgages. The WBD represents drainage...
The USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer (CDL) of the US for the growing seasons 1997 through 2013 are available using CropScape. Data for some states may not be available for one or more years.
NHD Basin Boundaries developed from the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD).
USDA Agricultural Projections for 2011-20, released in February 2011, provide longrun projections for the farm sector for the next 10 years. These annual projections cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm income and food prices....
The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP), Alpha Version consists of estimates of human population for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000 by 30 arc-second (1km) grid cells and associated datasets dated circa 2000. The data products include population count grids (raw counts), population density...
The U.S. Census Grids provide raster data sets that include not only population and housing counts, but a wide variety of socioeconomic characteristics. These gridded data sets transform irregularly shaped census block and block group boundaries into a regular surface – a raster grid – for faster...
Gridded Population of the World, Version 3 (GPWv3) consists of estimates of human population for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000 by 2.5 arc-minute grid cells and associated datasets dated circa 2000. The data products include population count grids (raw counts), population density grids (per square...
2010 total population counts per county in the United States from the 2010 decennial census.
R and D 100 Award Winner, uses spatial data and imagery analysis technologies and a multi-variable dasymetric modeling approach to disaggregate census counts within an administrative boundary. Since no single population distribution model can account for the differences in spatial data availability...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The APA Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change met in 2008-2009 to examine the role of psychology in understanding and addressing global climate change, including efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change.
The task force’s report reviews a wide range of...
Global climate change is one of the most complex environmental, energy, economic, and political issues confronting the international community. Its time and geographic scales are unprecedented in their scope, touching every human activity that involves energy or land and requiring a strategy that...
Earth warmed by more than 0.6 degrees Celsius (ºC) over the 20th century. Past fluctuations in naturally-occurring atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have caused Earth to warm and to cool, in cycles of around 100,000 years, with the timing of these cycles largely determined by a repeating...
Consensus is growing among scientists, policy makers, and business leaders that concerted action will be needed to address rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. The discussion is now turning to the practical challenges of where and how emissions reductions can best be achieved...
This paper describes the current Biomass Scenario Model (BSM) as of August 2013, a system dynamics model developed under the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The model is the result of a multi-year project at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). It is a tool designed to...
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NREL
Fishes in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3)
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NA
Fishes in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3) - Current
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NA
Fishes in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3) - Historical
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NA
Mussels in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3)
Mussels in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3) - Current
Mussels in critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable status (G1 to G3) - Historical
We present a system dynamics global LUC model intended to examine LUC attributed to biofuel production. The model has major global land system stocks and flows and can be exercised under different food and biofuel demand assumptions. This model provides insights into the drivers and dynamic...
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Strategic Energy Analysis Center, The National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The production of biobased feedstocks (i.e., plant– or algal-based material use for transportation fuels, heat, power and bioproducts) for energy consumption has been expanding rapidly in recent years. Biomass now accounts for 4.1% of total U.S. primary energy production. Unfortunately, there are...
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Enviroscapes Ecological Consulting
NOAA and other federal agencies administer a variety of financial assistance programs that support sustainable aquaculture in the United States. Funding may address a variety of issues such as environmental monitoring, recirculating aquaculture systems, shellfish farming, alternative feeds for...
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NOAA
The Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) Research Program builds capacity along our coasts for enhanced HAB monitoring and response. This helps NOAA and state partners identify when beaches, shellfisheries, and marine animals are at risk from harmful algae, and to make...
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NOAA
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has published the availability of funds and Announcements of Opportunity for the competitive programs.
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NOAA
The European Bioinformatics Institute - algae whole genome record - cyanobacteria.
NCBI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/AP008231
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Segal
Biomass Scenario Model: Supplemental Tableau workbook for Christopher M Clark et al 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 025016 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/025016 Growing a sustainable biofuels industry: economics, environmental considerations, and the role of the Conservation Reserve Program
To explore this...
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-diversity-focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2015
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Equal Access to Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Ethanol-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Minimal Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Output-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Pathway-Diversity-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Biofuel Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2020
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2025
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
Biomass Scenario Model
Point-of-Production-Focused Incentives scenario, Feedstock Production [ton/yr], 2030
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2013
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NREL
NREL's energy-water modeling and analysis activities analyze the interactions and dependencies of water with the dynamics of the power sector and the transportation sector. A variety of models and tools are utilized to consider water as a critical resource for power sector development and...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Vimmerstedt, L. J., Bush, B. W., Hsu, D. D., Inman, D. and Peterson, S. O. (2014), Maturation of biomass-to-biofuels conversion technology pathways for rapid expansion of biofuels production: a system dynamics perspective. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref.. doi: 10.1002/bbb.1515
To explore this file...
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NREL
Agroecosystem models that can incorporate management practices and quantify environmental effects
are necessary to assess sustainability-associated food and bioenergy production across spatial scales.
However, most agroecosystem models are designed for a plot scale. Tremendous computational...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Progress Toward Evaluating the Sustainabilty of Switchgrass as a Bioenergy Crop using the SWAT Model
ABSTRACT. Adding bioenergy to the U.S. energy portfolio requires long‐term profitability for bioenergy producers and long‐term protection of affected ecosystems. In this study, we present steps along the path toward evaluating both sides of the sustainability equation (production and environmental...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Workshop for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and their collaborators was held on September 10-11, 2009 at ORNL. The informal workshop focused on “Sustainability of Bioenergy Systems: Cradle to Grave.” The topics covered included sustainability...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
When we think about sustainable bioenergy feedstocks in the United States, we ask ourselves what we will grow, where we will grow it, and how much we will grow. We also must consider the local as well as the broad-scale implications. From the perspective of landscape ecology, we tend to look at the...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Landscape ecology focuses on the spatial patterns and processes of ecological and human interactions. These patterns and processes are being altered by both changing resource-management practices of humans and changing climate conditions associated, in part, with increases in atmospheric...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Defining and measuring sustainability of bioenergy systems are difficult because the systems are complex, the science is in early stages of development, and there is a need to generalize what are inherently contextspecific enterprises. These challenges, and the fact that decisions are being made...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Landscape design provides an approach under which bioenergy production systems can be integrated into other components of the land, environment and socioeconomic system. Landscape design is a spatially explicit collaborative plan for resource allocation and management. It should be applied to a...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Indicators of the environmental sustainability of biofuel production, distribution, and use should be selected, measured, and interpreted with respect to the context in which they are used. The context of a sustainability assessment includes the purpose, the particular biofuel production and...
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Center for BioEnergy Sustainability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T. Searchinger et al. propose "Fixing a critical climate accounting error" (Policy Forum, 23 October 2009, p. 527). We agree that greenhouse gas (GHG) emission accounting needs to be more comprehensive, but believe that Searchinger's proposal would make matters worse by increasing...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Understanding how large-scale bioenergy production can affect biodiversity and ecosystems is important if society is to meet current and future sustainable development goals. A variety of bioenergy production systems have been established within different contexts throughout the Pan American region...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
While soil enzymes have been explicitly included in the soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition models, there is a serious lack of suitable data for model parameterization. This study provides well-documented enzymatic parameters for application in enzyme-driven SOC decomposition models from a...
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ORNL, Environmental Sciences Division
We attempted to reconcile three microbial maintenance models (Herbert, Pirt, and Compromise) through a theoretical reassessment. We provided a rigorous proof that the true growth yield coefficient (YG) is the ratio of the specific maintenance rate (a in Herbert) to the maintenance coefficient (m in...
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ORNL, Environmental Sciences Division
The paper describes an approach to landscape design that focuses on integrating bioenergy production with their components of environmental, social and economic systems. Landscape design as used here refers to a spatially explicit, collaborative plan for management of landscapes and supply chains....
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Environmental Sciences Divsion, ORNL
Potential Avenues for High Biofuels Penetration in the U.S. Aviation Market, Supplemental Tableau Workbook, 2016
Emily Newes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Jeongwoo Han, Argonne National Laboratory Steve Peterson, Lexidyne LLC
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NREL
A presentation to share author's perspective on the importance of the 2011 BT2 data; to acknowledge the ARS REAP (Renewable Energy Assessment Project) team for their contributions to the BT2 report; and to predict ARS REAP team uses for BT2 data with regard to research needs and implementation...
This study provides a spatially comprehensive assessment of sustainable agricultural residue removal potential across the United States for bioenergy production. Earlier assessments determining the quantity of agricultural residue that could be sustainably removed for bioenergy production at the...