Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 22, Issue 1-3, Pages 1-8Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(00)00019-7
Keywords
methane; biomass; anaerobic digestion; renewable energy; global warming; economics; energy balances
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Production of methane via anaerobic digestion of energy crops and organic wastes would benefit society by providing a clean fuel from renewable feedstocks. This would replace fossil fuel-derived energy and reduce environmental impacts including global warming and acid rain. Although biomass energy is more costly than fossil fuel-derived energy, trends to limit carbon dioxide and other emissions through emission regulations, carbon taxes, and subsidies of biomass energy would make it cost competitive. Methane derived from anaerobic digestion is competitive in efficiencies and costs to other biomass energy forms including heat, synthesis gases, and ethanol. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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