Showing papers in "Energy for Sustainable Development in 2006"

TL;DR: A review of the literature of published life cycle analyses of liquid bio-fuels, with a focus on elucidating the impacts that production and use of such biofuels might have on emissions of greenhouse gases is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed and compared the cost and energy use of supplying pellets, pyrolysis oil and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuels to the international market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the focus of the paper is on fuel ethanol production from sugar and starches with emphasis on short-term issues and implications for the global market, and the international market in fuel ethanol is in its initial stage and its full development will require the diversification of production, in terms of both feedstocks and number of producing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the lessons learned from the 30 years of the Brazilian Alcohol Program (BP), with special attention paid to the following aspects: private investments now fund alcohol mill construction, eliminating the need for subsidies or other government incentives (so there is no influence of the sunk capital investments made in the past).

TL;DR: In this article, the links between international bio-energy trade and socioeconomic development and how sustainable bioenergy production could be realized are explored, and several key opportunities and issues for the developing international bioenergy markets and their possible socioeconomic impacts on developing and rural regions are raised.

TL;DR: In this paper, technologies and processes for converting biomass into transport fuel are described and fuel properties compared to those of the fuels they are supposed to substitute are compared, and the main barrier to the development of biofuel is economic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the prospects for international bio-energy trade within the context of regional integration and sustainable development in the region of southern Africa, focusing on the particular case of bio-ethanol made from sugar cane and sweet sorghum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the sustainability of renewables for the world using the criteria of life-cycle cost, net energy ratio, resource constraint and greenhouse gas emissions, and assess renewable options for electricity generation and hydrogen generation for vehicles are assessed on the basis of these criteria.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the provision of electricity in rural areas can bring about desired socioeconomic changes (increased economic opportunities, improved health and education facilities) has been challenged on two related counts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the main power policy, regulation and institution characteristics in force in China, examine these power sector reforms (initiatives), and attempt to evaluate their influence on the rural poor population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the potential for large-scale import of biofuel into Sweden and found that the Swedish bioenergy potential is large enough to accommodate a substantial increase in the domestic use of both solid and liquid biofuels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used step-wise regression to predict household solid fuel use based on rural population, gross national income (GNI) and geographic regional variables, which was used for completing missing country data for household use of solid fuels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the view that with more aggressive policies for reducing power waste both at the production and consumption level and promoting new renewable energy, Brazil could cut by 38 % the projected power demand growth by 2020 - equal to a saving of 293 TWh, avoiding 74.6 GW of installed capacity and saving of US$ 15 billion.

TL;DR: In this article, the sustainability of a biofuel production system must be assessed through evaluation of the ecosystem carbon budget, accounting for carbon-based inputs in all on-farm operations and industrial processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the Chinese policy path and impact on the speed and benefit of domestic wind turbine installations is presented, and it is found that policy-makers have faced a critical tradeoff between "fast-track" cutbacks on fossil energy sources through wind power development and "slow-track” wind power installations through development of a local manufacturing industry.

TL;DR: The majority (93 %) of the respondents experienced reduced hand roughness while 88 % of them claimed not to have hand burns while cooking with the improved system, and virtually all women said they had better health and lifestyle improvements by using the improved earthen stove.

TL;DR: The first signs of an international market price for wood-fuel are emerging in Europe as mentioned in this paper, where cross-border trade in solid biofuels (including wood-fuels) in Europe has reached a level of almost 50 PJ/annum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the economics of investments in liquid biofuel production, both from a national interest and a commercial perspective, and concluded that fuel bio-ethanol investment is desirable from an economic perspective and thus fiscal support is justified.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental study of the conversion by pyrolysis of long-stick wood to charcoal in a partial combustion kiln was conducted to understand and upgrade the process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the significance of end-use energy efficiency improvement for sustainable development and of the status of such projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the links between sustainable development and carbon sequestration as a climate change mitigation (CCM) strategy with a focus on Latin America, which has hosted the majority of sequestration activities to date.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the benefits that can be obtained through this policy, which countries are implementing standards and labels and for which products, the impacts such programs have been having in some countries, and recent progress through regional cooperation and alignment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the linkages between energy efficiency, sustainable development, and climate change in India using the household sector as a case-study, and look at the prospects of these "options" against the backdrop of the CDM, the financial incentives for investors in the form of CERs and the possibility of trading cERs in the international markets.

TL;DR: The authors discusses some of the underlying conditions needed for other developing countries to benefit from the Brazilian experience and move down the ethanol production cost curve, including rural development, externalities, and energy source diversification.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a synthetic version of the extensive study An Analysis of the Obstacles to the Development of a Sustainable Biodiesel Industry in Argentina, conducted in Argentina from October to December 2005 in collaboration between the University of Paris-Dauphine, France and the Instituto de Ingenieria Rural INTA, Argentina The objective of the study is to analyze what is to date regarded as the most probable development scenario of the biodiesel industry in Argentina in the short, medium and long terms, and to identify the expected discrepancies with an ideal contribution of this

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for energy efficiency improvement in high-rise buildings is discussed and a map of the political, economic, social, social and legal opportunities for and barriers to financing and implementing the necessary energy efficiency investment is identified and proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for the assessment of potential land availability in developing countries is presented, which allows for the identification of countries with the highest longterm (2050) potentials for dedicated biomass energy plantations, considering that food and feed requirements are given priority.

TL;DR: This paper presents a simple simulation approach to study static voltage stability in power systems and three-bus and IEEE fourteen-bus test systems are used to demonstrate the proposed technique.