Biofuels Methods and Protocols
With the dwindling supplies of fossil fuels and growing concerns regarding climate changes due to green house gasses from these fuels, public opinion has swung dramatically towards favoring the development of renewable energy sources. In Biofuels: M
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Series Editor John M. Walker School of Life Sciences University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK
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Biofuels
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Methods and Protocols
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Edited by
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Jonathan R. Mielenz
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Editor Jonathan R. Mielenz Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN USA [email protected]
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ISSN 1064-3745 e-ISSN 1940-6029 ISBN 978-1-60761-213-1 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-214-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-214-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London
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Preface
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This editor believes the public finally understands that bioenergy should be a critical new component of our world’s future energy supply. While this new enlightenment might have come from bioenergy’s environmentally friendly attributes and its renewable and sustainable nature, the reality is that the primary driver has been both the high cost of energy, led recently by petroleum products, and the unique climatic changes such as local weather events and reports of melting of ancient glaciers. I believe that much of the public understands the primary cause of these changes is the growing demand for fossil fuels for heating and transportation needs driven by both population increases and dramatic economic development around the globe. This increased demand, as well as global politics, has impacted the costs for these energy products. At the same time, increased use of fossil fuels has been liberating unprecedented levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses (GHGs) that must be impacting the global climate. As a resu
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