New Fuels - Biofuels: Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape

New Fuels - Biofuels: Meeting biofuel production targets could change agricultural landscape

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Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new study has found. An alternative, according to a study in
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vor 3 Monaten
Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be
devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet
current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new
study has found. An alternative, according to a study in ACS’
journal Environmental Science and Technology, would be to convert
60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.
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