Oversight: biomass. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications of the Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, March 10, 1980
Testimony from a number of public witnesses concerning various biomass-production systems that facilitate the forest and agricultural lands for energy crops and conversion technologies that convert biomass to gaseous and liquid fuels was presented. Biomass will make a significant contribution to the administration's goal of 20% solar by the year 2000. The Department of Energy's budget calls for a $13 million reduction in biomass gasification which is the preliminary step in the production of methanol. Witnesses were asked to comment on that reduction. What it will take to convert less-expensive cellulosic feedstocks into ethanol for blending into gasohol and efforts to accelerate the use of wood for near-term contributions are also discussed. The possibility of increased use of forest and agricultural lands for producing energy-related crops and the program to develop hydrocarbon from palm trees and alcohol from cassava and sugar are also examined.
- OSTI ID:
- 5461825
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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