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ASEE Prism, Summer 2008

The amount that greenhouse gases would increase over 30 years with the use of corn-based ethanol, compared with gasoline, as a result of widespread land-use changes needed to grow the corn, according to a controversial study reported in Science. The researchers at Princeton and Iowa State universities and the Woods Hole Research Center argue that the land-use changes would release sequestered carbon.

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