How Green Are Biofuels?
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- 4 January 2008
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 319 (5859) , 43-44
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1153103
Abstract
Many biofuels are associated with lower greenhouse-gas emissions but have greater aggregate environmental costs than gasoline.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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