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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Free, online crop radius calculator available from Ceres; calculates land required for biomass for bioenergy plants

Biofuels Digest
August 03, 2009 Jim Lane

In Florida, energy crop developer Ceres highlighted its free, web-based crop radius calculator for calculating the radius of land required for biomass around a prospective bioenergy processing plant in a company update at the Florida Farm to Fuel Summit . The calculator features sliders controlling three variables: amount of biomass required per day, the percentage of acres dedicated to biomass, and the local yield of biomass per acre.

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