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A negative-carbon corn ethanol plant?
Cogeneration and ethanol production |
Joseph Romm |
03 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I am not the biggest fan of corn ethanol. But I am the biggest fan of cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power, or CHP (well, maybe the second-biggest fan). It is probably the single most overlooked strategy for sharply cutting greenhouse-gas emissions while reducing overall energy costs. Now a new EPA report finds that running an ethanol plant on natural gas CHP can, with the right design, result in negative net CO2 emissions (click on figure to enlarge) ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, climate, cogeneration, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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