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Re: [VO]: Biomass/ Ethanol economics

Jed Rothwell
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:08:00 -0700

Edmund Storms wrote:

I suggest we have three separate issues here.
. . .
3. How much oil is used in the US for transportation.

That I can answer:

petroleum and NGPL (Natural Gas Plant Liquids)

Inputs:

15.0 quads U.S. production
23.8 quads inputs
38.8 total

Outputs:

25.7 (60%) transportation
5.7   (15%) non-fuel (plastic feedstocks and so on)
3.3   (9%) industrial
2.2   (6%) residential
1.2   (3%) electric power generation

1% misc.

See:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NRELenergyover.pdf

Last page. Note that transpiration is by far the least efficient sector. Most of the oil goes into waste heat.

- Jed