Sentences with phrase «sugar ethanol industry»

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That's a big reason Brazil developed its sugar - cane ethanol industry.

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.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Brazil owes its present - day sugar cane ethanol industry to the decisions of a military government during the energy crunch of 1973.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

This system, now well established in the Brazilian ethanol industry, is spreading to sugar mills in other countries that produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.

Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University,...

One wonders how, given that the Australian sugar industry seems to be as efficient as any in the world, ethanol can really be produced more cheaply elsewhere; perhaps the lower prices are due to subsidies?

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

Because sugar cane to ethanol is estimated to have a much higher energy return on energy invested than many oils to biodiesel, it is not apparent if people expect to make monetary returns similar to the industrial scale ethanol industry.

Hawaii also has a thriving sugar cane industry, which many people have eyed for the renewable production of ethanol.

In the United States, the sugar - cane industry has had little incentive to diversify into ethanol production because import quotas support U.S. sugar prices far above world levels.