Table 3.5. United Stateslandarea (Mha) required for biomassproduction in CCSP scenarios Ref Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 ... in land productivity. Globally, landarearequired for bioenergy production in 2100 ... is possible to estimate the amount of physical land that would be required. Estimates for the world are provided in table 3.4 and in table 3.5 for the United States: the land
26.5 million hectare (Mha) land, i.e. 85% of all maize-producing areas (Monfreda et al 2008) or 20% of total US cropland (USDA 2007), would be required ... to produce the same amount of biomass. In contrast, using Miscanthus requires only half ... united states
level and little biomass is traded, Smeets et al. (2007) found that no land would ... agricultural land – mainly pastures and with large areas in Latin America and sub-Saharan ... considerations in biomass resource assessments Some studies exclude areas where attainable
be required if biomass were the feedstock for 100 percent of the hydrogen production ... the United States would be using about 650, 000 mi2 of land to grow the biomass needed to fuel ... tons of bone-dry biomass can be grown per year for each acre of land
Table 2. Biomassproduction, potential ethanol production, and landarea needed for different potential bioenergy systems to reach the 35 billion gallon U.S. renewable fuel goal (adapted from Heaton et al., 2008). ... In the United States, giant miscanthus can yield more annual biomass than any other major biomass ... under the Energy Independence and Security Act (2007) using only the same landarea currently
. It is estimated that the future landrequirements for bioenergy production ... requirements for energy crop production to supply the biomass demand from dedicated plantations calculated earlier Corresponding landrequirements given regional-average ... In order to complement the above assessment of landrequirements for food production, the earlier calculated regional demand for biomass from dedicated plantations
(The Impacts…, 1998), increases, the amount of landrequired to meet current U.S. light ... Figure 4. The impact of vehicle efficiency on landrequirements for biomass-based fuel production. LandArea (Millions of Hectares) Without wastes Idled by federal programs, mid 80s to mid 90s CRP With wastes Vehicle Efficiency Multiplier ... 4, the landrequirements as determined from Figure 4 are modest: 4 to 8 million hectares
The results above assume that, in North America and the EU, 50% of the landrequired for dedicated biomassproduction would come from land that otherwise would ... additional biomass were to be produced on land other than that used for crop production ... Change compared to base - no second gen. fuels North America Lat. America Europe Asia Oceania Africa World Agr. Share = 0 Agr. Share = Base Agr. Share = 1
US Surface Area Total = 2.2B acres Useful Biomass: 130M x 8kW = 1TW Corn 90M Other ... The next step is to figure out how much biomass is available. In the US ... techniques are introduced), 1.3 billion tons of biomass will require 130 million acres of plant area (see Figure 13). For comparison, the total US surface area is 2.2 billion
bone dry ton (bdt)/day are possible in areas with highly concentrated biomass ... below indicates the collection arearequirements for plants of various scales using ... require 500, 000 acres or more of land or most of the residue from land within a 15