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Record W3155845062 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.10068

6. Perennial grasses as a viable biofuel source in eastern Ontario

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Jason LeBlanc

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBioenergy crop production and management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBioenergyGreenhouse gasEnvironmental scienceAgronomyPerennial plantPanicum virgatumBiofuelAgroforestryProductivitySoil carbonRenewable energyEnergy cropLife-cycle assessmentProduction (economics)EcologySoil waterBiology

Abstract

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Climate change and energy security issues have made renewable energy production an important global issue. Bioenergy crops may be able to provide a large amount of the world’s energy needs; therefore it is important to determine their potential for viable and sustainable use. Perennial grasses are an ideal bioenergy crop because they grow quickly across a wide range of climatic and soil conditions. Nitrogen based fertilizers are often used to increase productivity but overuse can lead to excessive nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, a greenhouse gas (GHG) 300 times more potent that carbon dioxide (CO2). Fertilizing becomes counterproductive when N2O emissions outweigh the benefit gained from reduction in CO2 emissions. Three perennial grass species (Panicumr virgatum, Schizachyrium scoparium and Andropogon gerardii) were grown in collaboration with Lafarge Cement in Bath, Ontario. Each species was grown under three different fertilization regimes: 0, 50 and 150 lbs/acre of nitrogen as urea. Results of one study indicate that low levels of fertilizer addition enhance the GHG benefits of the grass, but results from another site suggest no benefit. Our current research is exploring the importance of various soil processes to production of GHG’s in these perennial grass bioenergy systems, and whether the grasses alter soil conditions to favor certain soil processes. The information gained will help to further predict the feasibility of using nitrogen fertilizers to enhance production in these bioenergy systems and the overall viability of bioenergy crops for cement manufacturing and other applications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.024
Threshold uncertainty score0.108

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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