| Budget Amount *help |
¥19,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,410,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥6,890,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,590,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The scheme called as Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism based on Georgescu-Roegen' s flow-fund model and hierarchy theory of theoretical ecology has been extended to study the viability and feasibility of large scale biofuels production. Using this general framework, labor and land requirement was calculated to produce ethanol from corn. Labor and land requirement has shown to be tremendously large, thus no country(Japan, China and India) would not achieve feasibility conditions, let alone viability conditions.
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