Comparing emissions from
various fuel crops versus carbon storage in natural ecosystems, Renton Righelato and Dominick Spracklen write that «forestation of an equivalent area of land would sequester two to nine times more carbon over a 30 - year period than the emissions avoided by the use of the biofuel.»
Not exact matches
Bio-jet
fuel can be produced from
various plant materials, including oil
crops, sugar
crops, starchy plants and lignocellulosic biomass, through
various chemical and biological routes.
Others have further elaborated on the carbon implications of
various forms of bioenergy, from corn ethanol to
crop residue cellulosic
fuels to wood bioenergy.
Through
various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy
crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil
fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.