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Electronic Resource
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November 1975
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Library's review
ABSTRACT:
An integral part of any study of the feasibility of fuel production from plant matter must be documentation of all direct and indirect support energy requirements to drive the process. Likely energy inputs to the agronomic phase of the system are considered in this paper. Data on the
An integral part of any study of the feasibility of fuel production from plant matter must be documentation of all direct and indirect support energy requirements to drive the process. Likely energy inputs to the agronomic phase of the system are considered in this paper. Data on the
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energetics of irrigation are scanty but what is available suggests requirements under typical circumstances may be of the same order as the energy needs of all other inputs. It is concluded that support energy for the agronomic system alone would in a self-contained system utilize a sizeable part (20-40%) of the fluid fuel synthesized from its products. Show Less