Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: A Systems Approach to Biomass Sustainability
M. Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory) directed her talk toward the Laboratory’s system perspective; “waste as another sector’s resource” in biomass production. The growth of biofuels needs to be sustainable meeting economic, environmental, and social standards.
An important research question in this presentation deals with how, by looking for solutions to agricultural, environmental, and energy sectors as components of the same system, the plentiful biomass could be produced with positive impacts on environment.
The spatial analysis incorporates the designing of positive services to the environment and by transforming one sector’s waste to another’s resource. Also, a goal is to develop and analyze resource recovery strategies that would lead to increase biofuel feedstock production. Some of the successes and challenges of the Laboratory’s system perspective:
· The Geographic Information System (GIS) is useful to provide and validate quantitative measures of resource recovery strategies
· GIS introduces effective ways to overcome barriers of sustainable production
· Doubling yields of Cellulosic feedstock are possible through the use of nutrients and water from N-rich, degraded water resources
· Field validation needs to be conducted
· States have different opportunities according to regions where they are located
The presentation contains a description of field project in Nebraska and experience in environmental technologies with collected data and results. READ MORE
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