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Suggested Citation: "Appendix D: Presentations to the Panel." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Research Council. 2009. Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12620.

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Presentations to the Panel

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Robert Perlack, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Overview of Plant Feedstock Production for Biofuel: Current Technologies and Challenges, and Potential for Improvement


Jonathan Foley, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Regional and Global Environmental Consequences of Expanding Biofuel Production from Agricultural Feedstocks: Potential Production Issues and Environmental Impacts

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Bruce Dale, Michigan State University

Why Cellulosic Ethanol Is Nearer Than You May Think: Creating the Biofuels Future

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Otto Doering, Purdue University

Economics of Production of Liquid Fuels from Plant Feedstocks

Suggested Citation: "Appendix D: Presentations to the Panel." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Research Council. 2009. Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12620.

Robert Williams, Princeton University

Overview of the Production of Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal Feedstocks and from Biomass Feedstocks via Gasification and Similar Technologies


Samuel Tam, Headwaters

Direct Liquefaction: Total Production Costs, Current Status of Conversion Technologies and Potential for Future Improvement, and Environmental Impacts


Sam Tabak, ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Methanol to Gasoline


Theodore Wegner, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forest Biomass for Liquid Transportation Fuels Production

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Rich Bain and Maggie Mann, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass


Amory Lovins and James Newcomb, Rocky Mountain Institute

Importance of Scale in the Production of Biofuels

Next Chapter: Appendix E: Research Supporting a Landscape Vision of Production of Biofuel Feedstock
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