Sentences with phrase «brazilian sugarcane»

Brazilian sugarcane is less expensive than US corn.

It also plans on buying Brazilian sugarcane mills and ethanol plants, and converting them to run on its process.

This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13 % of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.

Additionally, Brazilian sugarcane is often boiled and processed using leftover plant matter — as opposed to using fossil fuels (like in the United States) to separate the plastic materials — said Mayfield.

By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Earthborn's PlantBag ® contains up to 30 % plant - based plastic, made from renewable and sustainable Brazilian sugarcane ethanol.

Competitiveness of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Compared to U.S. Corn Ethanol, Christine Crago, Madhu Khanna, Jason Barton, Eduardo Giuliani, Weber Amaral, Social Science Research Network, August 17, 2010.

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm on biofuels in the Working Group II report published on March 31.

We are also able to access the scale of the most successful renewable platform in the world — from an environmental and cost perspective — Brazilian sugarcane.

Their model revealed asymmetrical and north - to - south alignment produced the highest yield, which was 10 percent greater than that which typical Brazilian sugarcane fields currently supply.

Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.

Not exact matches

American agribusiness company Cargill and Brazilian sugar - cane processor Grupo USJ have entered into a joint venture (JV) called SJC Bioenergia in order to triple sugarcane processing in Brazil to 15...

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

Brazilians meet much of their motor fuel needs with ethanol from sugarcane; on a smaller scale also in India.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

Brazil's sugarcane - based ethanol program is «appropriate for replication in many countries,» writes José Goldemberg, secretary of the environment for the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in a perspective article in this week's issue of the journal Science.

Biofuels driving destruction of Brazilian cerrado (8/21/2007) The cerrado, wooded grassland in Brazil that once covered an area half the size of Europe, is fast being transformed into croplands to meet rising demand for soybeans, sugarcane, and cattle.

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also came to Rome to defend his country's cultivation of sugarcane ethanol.

The Program for Sustainable Production of Palm Oil, announced today by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, is novel in its approach to protecting standing forests while allowing cultivation in areas that have been deforested in the past, namely for use as short - lived sugarcane plantations or lumber operations.