Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts

by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering

The transportation sector cannot continue on its current path: The volatility of oil prices threatens the U.S. economy, the large proportion of oil importation threatens U.S. energy security, and the massive contribution of greenhouse gases threatens the environment. The development of domestic sources of alternative transportation fuels with lower greenhouse emissions is now a national imperative.

Coal and biomass are in abundant supply...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309137128
• ISBN13: 9780309137126
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.9"