Biofuel Literature
 

Science Letters: Rebuttals to the biofuels articles in Jan. 27, 2006, Science  (Click here to read the article)
The real biofuel cycles, Tad W. Patzek, Supporting Online Material to the Letter in Science, Vol. 312, p. 1747, 26 June 2006    (Click here to read the article)
The Earth, Energy, and Agriculture, Tad W. Patzek, Paper presented at the Climate Change and the Future of the American West - Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions, June 7-9, 2006, Boulder, Colorado (Click here to read the article)
Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower, David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek, Natural Resources Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2005 (Click here to read the article)
Thermodynamics of energy production from biomass, Tad W. Patzek and David Pimentel, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 24(5-6), 327-364, 2005  (Click here to read the article)
Thermodynamics of the corn-ethanol biofuel cycle, Tad W. Patzek, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 23(6), 519-567, 2004  (Click here to read the article)
UC scientist says ethanol uses more energy than it makes A lot of fossil fuels go into producing the gas substitute - Elizabeth Svoboda, Special to The Chronicle Monday, June 27, 2005, Page A-4 (Click here to read the article)
Proceedings of the Energy Analysis Workshop on Methodology and Conventions, 25-30 August 1974, International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, The Nobel House, Stockholm, Sweden (Click here to get the proceedings)
Proceedings of the  Workshop on Energy Analysis and Economics, 22-27 June 1975, International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, Lidingö, Sweden (Click here to get the proceedings)
Sheehan, J., Camobreco, V., Duffield, J., Graboski, M., and Shapouri, H. 1998, Life Cycle Inventory of Biodiesel and Petroleum Diesel for Use in an Urban Bus, Final Report NREL/SR-580-24089, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401 (Click here to get the paper)

 

 
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