1 The Scale of a Sustainable Bioenergy Resource
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Corn Harvest Ethanol consumes 29% of the US corn harvest, but provides only 2% of US transportation energy
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1) Scale of the Resource 2) Crop Yields 3) Land Areas 4) Energy Conversion Pathways 8
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) Abandoned agriculture areas from historical land use data (HYDE, SAGE) 2) Exclude agriculture-to- forest and agriculture-to-urban (MODIS12C1) 3) High estimate of potential yields from ecosystem model (CASA) 4) Regional bioenergy potential on abandoned agriculture lands.
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Field Trials Unplanned Experiments EBI Model Inter-comparison Top-Down Yields from Carbonyl Sulfide 13
(Tilman et al., Science, 2006; Schmer et al., PNAS, 2008) 14
Native Grass Field Trials (DeBolt, University of Kentucky) Abandoned Coal Mines and Secondary Forests (Fox, University of Kentucky) 15
An Unplanned Experiment… County: Logan, ND 16
Comparison for field sites Comparison for regional area estimates of marginal lands 17
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Airborne Measurements (Blake, UC Irvine; Vay, NASA/Langley; Montzka NOAA/ESRL) Regional Atmospheric Model (Carmichael, U Iowa) Ecosystem Model (Collatz, NASA/GSFC) 19 (Campbell et al., Science, 2008)
20 (Campbell et al., Science, 2008) Drawdown COS (ppt) Drawdown CO2 (ppm) TotalModel Components
County-Level Areas Tracking Current Expansion 21
County – County-level total crop area based on USDA data – , annual HYDE – 5 minute, based on state-level data – , decadal SAGE – 5 minute, based on state-level data – , decadal 22
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% 97% 30-40%92%80-90%75% 45-47% 20% 27
28 a) Ethanolb) Bioelectricity (Campbell, Lobell, & Field, Science, In Review)
Corn Switchgrass 29 (Campbell, Lobell, & Field, Science, In Review)
Corn Switchgrass 30 (Campbell, Lobell, & Field, Science, In Review)
Bioelectricity: IGCC power plant Ethanol: Hybrid vehicles 31
Bioelectricity: IGCC power plant Ethanol: Hybrid vehicles Ethanol Bio- electric 32
Bioelectricity: IGCC power plant Ethanol: Hybrid vehicles Ethanol Bio- electric Bioelectricity averages 75% greater distance 33
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35 Thank you! Elliott Campbell tel: skype: elliott.campbell
Area to meet U.S. Transportation Demand 36