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  • Study Slams Economics Of Ethanol And Biodiesel

    07/06/2005 5:07:49 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 338 replies · 3,555+ views
    Science A Go Go ^ | 6 July 2005 | Staff
    A new joint study from Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley says that fuels produced from biomass are uneconomical as they use much more energy in their creation than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates. "There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel," said study author and Cornell researcher David Pimentel. "These strategies are not sustainable." The study, appearing in Natural Resources Research, entailed a detailed analysis of the energy input-yield ratios of producing ethanol from corn, switch grass and wood biomass as well as for producing biodiesel from soybean and sunflower plants. The researchers...