Grand challenges for life-cycle assessment of biofuels.
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Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels T. E. McKone,* W. W. Nazaroff, P. Berck, M. Auffhammer, T. Lipman, M. S. Torn, E. Masanet, A. Lobscheid, N. Santero, U. Mishra, A. Barrett, M. Bomberg, K. Fingerman, C. Scown, B. Strogen, and A. Horvath University of California, Berkeley, California, United States Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States Energy Biosciences Institute, Berkeley, California, United States
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental science & technology
دوره 45 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011