Biomass/Biofuel Options – Bruce McCarl

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Papers on Bioenergy lignocellulosic feedstock logistics

• Lifecycle Carbon Footprint, Bioenergy and Leakage: Empirical Investigations\ Presented at USDA, FARM Foundation Conference on The LifecycleCarbon Footprint of Biofuels: January 29, 2008 in Miami.  It is an early draft of a paper that will appear in a proceedings volume.
• Biofuels: Will we see more ? An Economists View\ Presented at Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, Texas Renewables ’06 Conference, Austin, Nov 13, 2006
• Switchgrass as an Alternate Feedstock for Power Generation: Integrated Environmental, Energy, and Economic Life-Cycle Analysis\ Paper in draft form, 2005.
• Switchgrass as an Alternate Feedstock for Power Generation: Integrated Environmental, Energy, and Economic Life-Cycle Analysis: Appendix
• U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Mitigation: An Economic Exploration of Time Dependent Effects\ A chapter in Rural Lands, Agriculture and Climate beyond 2015: Usage and Management Responses, edited by F. Brouwer and B.A. McCarl , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.
• Economic Exploration of Biofuel-based Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation\ A chapter in Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, edited by K. Collins and J. Outlaw, forthcoming, 2005.
• Biocomplexity Analysis of Alternative Biomass Routes for Power Generation: Environmental, Economic, and Technical Assessment\ Presented at Complex Processes Symposium, College Station, TX, March, 2005.
• The Dynamic Competitiveness of U.S. Agricultural and Forest Carbon Sequestration\ Paper submitted to Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• The Comparative Value of Biological Carbon Sequestration\ Paper submitted to Journal of Agricultural and Rsource Economics.
• An Economic Exploration of Biofuel based Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation\ Presented at Workshop on Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, Washington D.C., June 24-25, 2004.
• Climate change Mitigation as a stimulus for biofuel adoption:\  An economic evaluation\ Presented at Workshop on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Bio-Based Production, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 8 – 9, 2004.
• Competitiveness of Biomass-Fueled Electrical Power Plants\ This is an earlier version of an article in Annals of Operations Research, 1998, see journal for a final copy.
• Economic Potential of Biomass Based Fuels from Agricultural Sources\ Paper prepared for workshop on “Sustainable Energy : New Challenges for Agriculture and Implications for Land Use”, May 18-20, 2000 – Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• Economic Potential of Biomass Based Fuels for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation\ Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 24(4), 291-312, 2003.
• Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Through Energy Crops in the U.S. With Implications for Asian-Pacific Countries\ Paper in book by Mendelssohn.