Blog posts relating to ethanol from sugar cane

APPLES, ORANGES, SUGARCANE AND CORNSugar cane ethanol EROEI, under correct technologies, is much higher than … Furthermore, total area dedicated to sugar cane in Brazil, devoted to ethanol … We must also consider that sugar cane and sugar cane ethanol industry is one …

Teaching ethanol economicsSugar cane produces as much as 10 times the energy required to produce it, while corn-based ethanol makes only 1.3 times its cost of production. The US trade and agricultural policies combined with the federal government’s requirement …

Teaching ethanol economicsI don’t require my students to purchase the WSJ, it seems like a tremendous waste, stacks of WSJ’s pile up, unread … and that is just in my office. However, the WSJ online edition is a great investment, both for research and teaching. And I get the weekly review in my email inbox that helps me avo…

ON SUGARCANE AND SOIL EROSION IN BRAZILIn short, these are the reasons why sugar cane is so much more efficient, at the culture field, than any other plant used for producing ethanol, including its marvelous low rate of soil erosion and high yield of both biomass of …

Krugman on the Plan to Use Ethanol to Replace Gasoline: Sugar …There is a place for ethanol in the world?s energy future - but that place is in the tropics. Brazil has managed to replace a lot of its gasoline consumption with ethanol. But Brazil?s ethanol comes from sugar cane. …

Brazilian ethanol is sustainable and has a very positive energy …In many impact categories, Brazilian scores average to … The report analyses the energy balances of sugarcane biomass and ethanol. … Moreover, most Brazilian sugar cane and ethanol producers are extremely …

Brazil on the road with GM fuel and sugar?. If the field-tests are successful, Brazil - the world’s No. 1 sugar and ethanol exporter - could…Brazil CTC to start field-testing GMO cane in coming weeks 30.jan.07 Dow Jones International News via Agnet DJ are reporting from SAO PAULO - that Brazil’s leading private sugarcane technology firm, CTC, is planning to begin field-testing three varieties of transgenic cane with high sucrose…. William Burnquist, the technology director of the Center for Cane Technology, or CTC, was quoted

Brazil on the road with GM fuel and sugar?Brazil CTC to start field-testing GMO cane in coming weeks … DJ are reporting from SAO PAULO - that Brazil’s leading private sugarcane technology firm, … 1 sugar and ethanol exporter - could be well on its way to commercializing …

Paul Krugman: The Sum of All EarsPaul Krugman discusses the president’s plans to use ethanol to replace gasoline, something he describes as "a really bad idea": The Sum of All Ears, by Paul Krugman, Corn Cop-Out, Commentary, NY Times: For those hoping for real action on global warming and energy policy, the State of the U…

Ethanol Fires Hope for China’s Poor Guangxi - Nao Nakanishi and Niu ShupingFrom Reuters: …Over the past year, small new farmhouses have sprouted, looking incongruous among the southern region’s fields of sugar cane and karst mountains — similar to those in Guilin, one of top tourist attractions in China. High prices for……

Krugman’s reaction to the State of the UnionRe: Ethanol Economics (The Sum of All Ears - $$) The only real substance was Mr. Bush?s call for a huge increase in the supply of ?alternative fuels.? Mainly that means using ethanol to replace gasoline. Unfortunately, that?s a really bad idea. There is a place for ethanol in the world?s energy futu…

State of the UnionI neither watched nor listed to George Bush give the State of the Union Address to congress earlier this week (and apparently I wasn’t the only one), but apparantly he floated a proposal that I think I could support. The idea, as I understand it is to make the cost of health insurance tax dedu…

Ethanol . . . a good idea turning into bad public policyEthanol is rapidly moving deep into the realm of “politically untouchable” in this country. The problem is, it’s a solution that’s only marginally better than the alternatives it is in theory to replace says Paul Krugman (and plenty of others) . . . There is a place for ethanol in the world?s energy…

Sunopta Updates on Current Cellulosic Ethanol ProjectsSunOpta Inc. provided an update on the status of four cellulosic ethanol projects which are or will be operational using SunOpta?s technology and equipment to produce ethanol from a variety of cellulosic biomass including woodchips, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, and wheat straw. SunOpta provides …

BioEthanol Japan Begins Production of Cellulosic Ethanol from Wood Scraps; Uses Celunol TechnologyBioEthanol Japan on Tuesday became the world?s first company to produce cellulosic ethanol from wood construction waste on a commercial basis. The plant in Osaka Prefecture has an annual capacity of 1.4 million liters (about 370,000 gallons US). In 2008, it plans to boost production to 4 million lit…

Middle Earth Journalsurpluses making HFCS cheaper than sugar from cane or beets. Shortly after the Japanese developed… mentioned Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in relation to Bush’s plan to push ethanol made from corn… the fructose in high fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar… of about 1975?1985. HFCS is comparable to table sugar (sucrose) in sweetness. This makes it useful to manufacturers as a possible substitute for sugar in soft drinks and other processed foods. Since

World Beet and Cane Growers Association Sees Future of Sugar in …http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/28/news/business/50-sugar.txt.

The ethanol program in BrazilHaving been rather negative about bio-fuels, I’ll be positive and mention The ethanol program in Brazil. And the abstract is: The number of automobiles in the world has been growing fast and today requires one quarter of the global petroleum consumption. This problem requires adequate solutions, one…

Ethanol is in, but so is Middle Eastern fast food: Do Brazilians know something we don’t know?Someone passed along to me something written by Byron King at Whiskey and Gunpowder, entitled Investing in Ethanol. Ethanol, via corn production, has been touted lately by some folks as the answer to all the oil woes we might face in the U.S. But every focus on a solution usually raises new problems…

Sunopta Updates on Current Cellulosic Ethanol ProjectsGreen Car Congress: SunOpta Inc. provided an update on the status of four cellulosic ethanol projects which are or will be operational using SunOptas technology and equipment to produce ethanol from a variety of cellulosic biomass including woodchips, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse,…