# Biomass/Biofuel Options – Bruce McCarl

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[Papers on Bioenergy lignocellulosic feedstock logistics](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/papers/biomass-biofuel-papers/biomass-logistics/)

- [Lifecycle Carbon Footprint, Bioenergy and Leakage: Empirical Investigations](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1553Lifecycle-Carbon-Footprint.doc)\
  Presented at USDA, FARM Foundation Conference on [The LifecycleCarbon Footprint of Biofuels](http://www.farmfoundation.org/projects/08-22LifecycleCarbonFootprintBiofuels.htm)**:** 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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/renewfuel.ppt)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1170Switchgrass-Paper-updated-Feb-15200511.pdf)\
  Paper in draft form, 2005.
- [Switchgrass as an Alternate Feedstock for Power Generation: Integrated Environmental, Energy, and Economic Life-Cycle Analysis: Appendix](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1170Switchgrass-Paper-updated-Feb-15200511.pdf)
- [U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Mitigation: An Economic Exploration of Time Dependent Effects](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1153.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1156.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1209.pdf)\
  Presented at Complex Processes Symposium, College Station, TX, March, 2005.
- [The Dynamic Competitiveness of U.S. Agricultural and Forest Carbon Sequestration](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1128.pdf)\
  Paper submitted to *Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics*.
- [The Comparative Value of Biological Carbon Sequestration](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/0915-1.pdf)\
  Paper submitted to *Journal of Agricultural and Rsource Economics*.
- [An Economic Exploration of Biofuel based Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/1157.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/679-1.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/846-1.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/889.pdf)\
  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](https://agecoresearch.tamu.edu/mccarl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/12/690.pdf)\
  Paper in book by Mendelssohn.