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Estimating the efficiency of the production of nontraditional and renewable energy sources

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The author considers a method of energy flow analysis in terms of ethanol production. This method may also be used in the production of other nontraditional energy sources: various vegetable oils, biodiesel, biogas, algae fuel, etc.

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Original Russian Text © G.A. Bulatkin, 2009, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 79, No. 7, pp. 608–616.

Gennadii Aleksandrovich Bulatkin, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), is a leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Basic Biological Problems.

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Bulatkin, G.A. Estimating the efficiency of the production of nontraditional and renewable energy sources. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 79, 345–351 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331609040042

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