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Table 5 Land use emissions due to US ethanol production

From: The role of irrigation in determining the global land use impacts of biofuels

Simulations

Ethanol production (billion liters)

Annualized ILUC emissions

  

(g CO2e/MJ)

Deviation from no-irrigation (%)

Unconstrained

50.08

35.6

−0.05

No-irrigation

50.08

35.6

0.0

Constrained

50.08

45.4

27.5