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Science 10 February 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4329, pp. 644 - 651
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4329.644
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Fuels from Biomass: Integration with Food and Materials Systems

E. S. Lipinsky 1

1 Research Leader at the Battelle, Columbus Laboratories, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43201

The development of fuels from biomass can lead naturally to dispersed facilities that incorporate food or materials production (or both) with fuel production, forming adaptive systems that can be modified to meet evolving needs and constraints. The technology that is appropriate to each system needs to be worked out, taking into account associated food and materials opportunities in order to decrease the ultimate cost of energy delivered to the consumer. I analyze possible systems based on sugarcane, corn, and guayule.


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