Environmental Science and Engineering
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Question 65
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An agricultural land can support energy crops yield to produce 7000 L of bioethanol per hectare and energy content of bioethanol is 21 MJ/L. This bioethanol displaces fossil-based petrol.
The CO
offset potential of land used for growing energy crops as a bioethanol feedstock is _____
g of CO
/hectare (rounded off to one decimal place).Consider CO
footprints of 10 g and 80 g of CO
per MJ for bioethanol and petrol, respectively.Log in to check the answer
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