Biomass energy

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:7176413

Smil, V

This book offers a broad, interdisciplinary approach to assessing the factors that are key determinants to the use of biomass energies, stressing their limitations, complexities, uncertainties, links, and consequences. Considers photosynthesis, energy costs of nutrients, problems with monoculture, and the energy analysis of intensive tree plantations. Subjects are examined in terms of environmental and economic impact. Emphasizes the use and abuse of biomass energies in China, India, and Brazil. Topics include forests, trees for energy, crop residues, fuel crops, aquatic plants, and animal and human wastes. Recommended for environmental engineers and planners, and those involved in ecology, systematics, and forestry.

• OSTI ID: 7176413
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCOUNTING
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
ASIA
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BIOLOGICAL WASTES
BIOMASS
BRAZIL
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHINA
CROPS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECOLOGY
ECONOMICS
ENERGY ACCOUNTING
ENERGY ANALYSIS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FORESTS
INDIA
LATIN AMERICA
MATERIALS
NUTRIENTS
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PLANTS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SOUTH AMERICA
SYNTHESIS
TREES
WASTES