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Sugarcane as biofuel feedstock : advances toward a sustainable energy solution /

As the world's energy hunger grows ever larger, fossil fuel reserves are diminishing-and concerns about climate change remind us that our love affair with fossil fuels cannot continue much longer. This has inspired intense research into sustainable energy sources. Biofuels seemed initially prom...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Gikonyo, Barnabas (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakville, ON : Apple Academic Press, [2015]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:As the world's energy hunger grows ever larger, fossil fuel reserves are diminishing-and concerns about climate change remind us that our love affair with fossil fuels cannot continue much longer. This has inspired intense research into sustainable energy sources. Biofuels seemed initially promising, but the world soon realized that food-based biofuel has its own dangers. Second-generation biofuels, however, use biomass from crops' inedible parts-such as the stalks and leaves of sugarcane-offering a far more practical, sustainable, and commercially viable solution. In this book, researchers fro.
Description matérielle:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781498728836
1498728839