Water Intensity of Transportation

Renewable Energy (Other Energy Resources) / Economics, Batteries

As the need for alternative transportation fuels increases, it is important to understand the many effects of introducing fuels based upon feedstocks other than petroleum. Water intensity in "gallons of water per mile traveled" is one method to measure these effects on the consumer level. In this paper we investigate the water intensity for light duty vehicle (LDV) travel using selected fuels based upon petroleum, natural gas, unconventional fossil fuels, hydrogen, electricity, and two biofuels (ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soy).

URL withdrawn: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/es800367m