|  | | Sustainable Fuel-Sourcing Systems for Biomass Energy Production: Two Minnesota Case Studies
Date Approved: 2/17/04
Amount: $24,600
Leads: Nicholas Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Dean Current, CINRAM
Contacts: Nicholas Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and Dean Current, CINRAM
Benefits and Deliverables:
- Identify
economic and environmental differences between traditional energy and
bioenergy production systems as well as traditional crops and perennial
cropping systems as feed stocks for bioenergy production.
- Identify
opportunities for market-driven targeted landscape level change
provided by bioenergy production and the environmental and econo mic
benefits of that change.
Description:
The researchers will use IREE seed-grant funding to develop a framework for a larger project: creation of a comprehensive design/development process for sustainable fuel-sourcing systems. Design and development of targeted fuel-sourcing systems must integrate closely interlinked processes of biomass production, harvest, transport, processing, storage, as well as related economic, environmental and social dynamics. Sourcing systems must be sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The researchers will build the proposed work by leveraging two "real- time" opportunities for biomass energy development in Minnesota.
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