What is the Scale of Sustainable Bioenergy Resources?
Seminar | February 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall Speaker/Performer: Elliott Campbell, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, UC Merced Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Converting forest lands into bioenergy agriculture could accelerate climate change by emitting carbon stored in forests, while converting food agriculture lands into bioenergy agriculture could threaten food security. Both problems are potentially avoided by using abandoned agriculture lands for bioenergy agriculture. The global potential for bioenergy on abandoned agricultural lands is less than 8% of current primary energy demand, based on historical land use data, satellite-derived land cover data, and global ecosystem modeling. Given this limited cropland area, bioenergy technology must maximize land use efficiency when addressing transportation and climate change goals. Two technologies, cellulosic ethanol and electric vehicle batteries, may be leading the race to provide the basis for sust
