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Abstract Using fine-scale panel data and an econometric model, we predict land use change in the Midwestern United States if a new bioenergy crop, Miscanthus × Giganteus (miscanthus), is introduced. To explain farmers' current crop choices, we use a local, limited dependent variable regression based on soil and weather characteristics. To this model, we add miscanthus as a new crop, based on its place dependent BioCro model-predicted yield. We find that the vast majority of land used to grow miscanthus will come from land now used for non-major crops, pasture, woodland, and other uses. This implies that miscanthus can help mitigate climate change by displacing oil usage without causing food conflict.

LBNL-56207 Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Commercial Equipment: Additional Opportunities Greg Rosenquist, Michael McNeil, Maithili Iyer, Steve Meyers, and Jim McMahon Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 September 2004 This work was supported by the National Commission on Energy Policy through the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.

A field exercise was performed on a high-energy beach east of the Sunday's River in Algoa Bay on the east coast of the Republic of South Africa in the latter half of April 1983. Recorded data include nearly continuous wave data at 7 stations within the breaker zone with simultaneous waverider recordings in a water depth of 10 m, suspended sediment data gathered by means of 'bamboo' poles and instantaneous bottle samplers, daily topographical measurements of the beach and inshore area, data on rip current intensity and spacing for a 10 km coastal strip, more than 3 000 bottom sediment sample analyses and visual observations of wave height and longshore current velocity at hourly intervals through the recording period. Analysis of the data has been completed and interpretation and correlation of various measured phenomena are underway. A second exercise was performed in August 1984, when the emphasis was on nearshore circulation patterns.