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| ISBN: | 9781402056017
140205601X
9781402056000 (hd. bd.)
1402056001 (hd. bd.)
6611107606
9786611107604
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | "Simulation models suggest that the agriculture and water resources of the Plains may be stressed even further as its climate changes because of global warming, which is due primarily to the emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion. This book explores the possibility that the ecology and economy of the Plains region (and similar regions) would benefit from the introduction of perennial biomass crops. Biomass production and processing on the Plains (possibly aided by genetic engineering) would partially restore a perennial vegetative cover and create new employment opportunities. Biomass also offers a means of reducing fossil fuel use, providing fuel to local power plants and a feedstock for production of cellulosic ethanol, a gasoline substitute. Interest in biofuels is growing rapidly in public, political and business circles with rising fossil fuel prices and because of a growing recognition of the need for energy independence in petroleum importing countries."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rosenberg, Norman J., 1930- Biomass future for the North American Great Plains. Dordrecht : Springer, 2007 9781402056000 1402056001
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