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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Why sugarcane? -- part 2. Cultivation and optimization processes -- part 3. Economic and environmental factors -- part 4. Options for the future. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sugarcane.
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Sugarcane. |
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Energy crops.
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Energy crops. |
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Biomass energy.
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Biomass energy. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science. |
| Added Author |
Gikonyo, Barnabas, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781771881296 |
| ISBN |
9781498728836 (electronic book) |
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1498728839 (electronic book) |
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9781771881296 |
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1771881291 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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