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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDIFFERENCES FOUND BETWEEN ETHANOL ENERGY BALANCE STUDIES
Renewable Fuel News, December, 2005 by Cole, Carol
Does ethanol carry an energy credit or debit? Does it require more energy than it provides? Those questions are the centerpiece of a long-running debate, which increased in rancor this summer as lawmakers in Congress debated national energy policy.
The net energy value (NEV) of ethanol is the difference between the energy content of ethanol and the energy used in producing and distributing it. Despite the advent of a national ethanol mandate, ethanol's "real" NEV remains a controversial and, from an analytical standpoint, unresolved issue, according to analysts at MathPro Inc., a consulting firm specializing in energy economics.
Ethanol proponents, most notably the U.S. Department of Agriculture, assert that corn ethanol has a positive NEV, meaning ethanol provides more...
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