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Energy is an essential ingredient in nearly all goods and services, but its use exacts heavy financial, environmental, and security costs. A key method of reducing energy costs while retaining its benefits is to use it more efficiently. Industry is a very large consumer of energy and has unexploited potential for energy savings. To lower the intensity of industrial energy dependency one has to add ...

Conventional production of biomass for biogas plants is often eco-inefficient due to the dominant use of maize and the increased risk of soil erosion and nutrient losses, as well as the low use of thermal energy during the generation of electricity in the combined heat and power plant. Furthermore, competition with food production on fertile land and the resulting increase of prices for land and a ...