Author:
Pimentel, David, 1925-
Imprint:[Dordrecht, Netherlands] : Springer, c2008.
Descriptionxxi, 504 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Note:Renewable and solar energy technologies: energy and environmental issues / David Pimentel -- Can the Earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? / Tad W. Patzek -- A review of the economic rewards and risks of ethanol production / David Swenson -- Subsidies to ethanol in the United States / Doug Koplow and Ronald Steenblik -- Peak oil, EROI, investments and the economy in an uncertain future / Charles A. S. Hall, Robert Powers and William Schoenberg -- Wind power benefit and limitations / Andrew R. B. Ferguson -- Renewable diesel / Robert Rapier -- Complex systems thinking and renewable energy systems / Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi -- Sugarcane and ethanol production and carbon dioxide balances / Marcelo Dias De Oliveira -- Biomass fuel cycle boundaries and parameters: current practice and proposed methodology / Tom Gangwer -- Our food and fuel future / Edwin Kessler -- A framework for energy alternatives: net energy, Liebig's law and multi-criteria analysis / Nathan John Hagens and Kenneth Mulder -- Bioethanol production in Brazil / Robert M. Boddy, Luis Henrique de B. Soares, Bruno J.R.Alves and Segundo Urquiaga -- Ethanol production: energy energy and economic issues related to U.S. and Brazilian sugarcane / David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek -- Ethanol production using corn, switchgrass, and wo9od : Biodiesel production using soybean / David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek -- Developing energy crops for thermal applications: optimizing fuel quality, energy security And GHG ,mitigation / Roger Samson, Claudia Ho Lem, Stephanie Bailey Stamler and Jeroen Dooper -- Organic and sustainable Agriculture and energy conservation /Tiziano Gomiero and Marizio G. Paoletti -- Biofuiel production in Italy and Europe: benefits and costs, in the light of the persent EuropeanUnion biofuel policy / Sergio Ulgiati, Daniela Russi and Marco Raugei -- The power density of ethanol from Brazilian sugarcane / Andrew R. B. Ferguson -- A brief discussion on algae for oil production; energy issues / David Pimentel.
Bibliography Note:includes bibliographical references and index.
