ABSTRACT:
A variety of commercial and experimental starch- and sugar-rich crops were evaluated for their suitcbility as feedstocks for both small-scale, on-farm and intermediate-scale, off-farm fuel ethanoi production in California's Sacramento Valley. Solutions of linear programming models indicated that sweet sorghum is the least-cost feedstock for on-farm production of 50,000 gallons of fuel ethanol per year. Fodder beet proved to be the least-cost feedstock for off-farm production of 1 million gallons of fuel ethanol per year.
Footnotes
Mark Meo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543. This research was supported by the Public Service Research and Dissemination Program and the Center for Environmental and Energy Policy Research at the University of California, Davis. Manuscript preparation was supported by the Pew Memorial Trust and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Policy and Ocean Management Center.
- Copyright 1985 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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