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. 2009 Feb 3;2:3. doi: 10.1186/1754-6834-2-3

Table 3.

Normalised feedstock cost estimates

Feedstock (delivered to the plant as chips/bales) Cost (2005US$ odt-1)

Low Mid High
Softwooda 51.5 74.5 107.7

Straw 66.1 100.9 153.9

aMid-point is equal to geometric mean of pulplog and forest residue costs only. The geometric mean was chosen because plotting a histogram of estimates indicated a log normal distribution.