Greenhouse gas release from land use change (the so-called "carbon debt") has been identified as a potentially significant contributor to the environmental profile of biofuels. The time required for biofuels to overcome this carbon debt due to land use change and begin providing cumulative greenhouse gas benefits is referred to as the "payback period" and has been estimated to be 100-1000 years...

The objectives of this presentation are to evaluate and compare the environmental burdens of the two different concentrate feed supply systems to Japanese domestic livestock industry. Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) method is used on the two systems such as the conventional system depending on US-imported corn and the proposed new system. Japanese domestic livestock industry could reduce 78,462 ton...

The Federal Government of Nigeria based on its sizable gas reserves, identified the need for accelerated development industry as a focal strategy achieving national aspiration aggressive GDP growth. Endowed with energy resources, has about 188tcf proven reserves. Active power plants are mainly gas-fired, but they face feedstock shortages, result dearth infrastructure investment. Nigeria’s is st...

It is notable that over the past decade, proven reserves of natural gas have dramatically increased as higher prices and advances in technology have turned previously unrecoverable resources into major sources of domestic production. Moreover, the decline in crude oil reserves has significantly slowed over the past decade. Therefore, there would be an end to the conventional hydrocarbon resourc...

The number of deaths from suicide in the City of Birmingham has fallen dramatically over the past eight years. Investigation shows that this seems to be wholly due to a reduction in deaths due to domestic coal-gas.

in this paper, an adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (anfis) is used for forecasting of natural gas consumption. it is clear that natural gas consumption prediction for future, surly can help statesmen to decide more certain. there are many variables which effect on gas consumption but two variables that named gross domestic product (gdp) and population, are selected as two input var...

The imposition of environmental regulations, such as greenhouse gas charges, to domestic manufacturing traditionally creates concerns over the impacts of those regulations on international competition and downstream product prices. The US Nitrogen fertilizer industry, an energy-intensive trade-exposed industry, has been considered by conventional metrics to be one of the most vulnerable to such...

abstract i n this paper we investigated total energy consumption and its individual forms (oil, natural gas, electricity, renewable energies and coal) relationship with real gross domestic product (gdp) in iran. we employed hsiao’s (1981) methodology and annual data which cover 1967-2010 for investigation. the empirical findings indicate there is bidirectional causality effect with real gdp and...