Biofuels and water are in the news again:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/090410-bioethanol-water.html
Here's the html link for the associated scientific article in ES &
T.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es8031067?prevSearch=Suh&searchHistoryKey=
On a related note, and more directly relevant to Florida, is this
article that Matt Cohen and I just got published in the journal
Global Change Biology:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121639294/HTMLSTART
The water issue (including how we currently allocate water) is one
that will increasingly need to be talked about as we move forward
with liquid biofuel production.
-Jason
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Jason M. Evans, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
University of Florida
Newin-Ziegler 319
(352) 846-0148 - office
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