Sentences with phrase «cane ethanol»

In practice, Brazil has been successful with sugar cane ethanol (but the Amazon rain forest has suffered as a result).

I should add that wind, geothermal power, concentrating solar thermal power, cane ethanol, and biodiesel are the only safe, proven, minimally controversial, non toxic, cost competitive technologies available today that can be rolled out immediately and in sufficient quantity to meet global warming CO2 reduction requirements.

PS Sugar cane ethanol yields per acre are around twice as high as those from corn (but sugar cane does not grow in most of the US).

Jose Goldemberg, former Minister of the Environment, Brazil, who was present at the beginning of the push for sugar cane ethanol in that country.

But your comments are irrelevant to whether sugar cane ethanol makes sense in itself Its the EROI value of 10 which saying that ethanol made sense in itself on energy terms.

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

Sugar cane ethanol makes sense in Brazil mainly because they have a large, poor labor force to harvest the cane.

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.

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

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Flavorganics recently switched to a cane - based ethanol.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

(Brazil is a big producer of sugar, and the country's ethanol is made from sugar cane.)

The ethanol produced from 1 -, 5 - and 10 percent oil cane would add to the cost benefit.

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.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Ingredients: Bilberry extract (25 % anthocyanosides), Noni, Milk Thistle, Echinacea (purpurea & angustifolia), Goldenseal, Shiitake, White Willow (bark), Garlic, Grapeseed extract (min 90 % polyphenols), Black Walnut (hull and leaf), Raspberry, Fumitory, Gentian, Tea Tree oil, Galbanum oil, Lavender oil (plant and flower), Oregano oil (plant and flower), < 5 % alcohol (potato and / or cane source) * Other Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Ethanol, Vitamin E (as d - alpha tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate)

In keeping with the car's «green» mantra, the seats are comprised of a bio-fabric called Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) made from a sugar - cane sourced ethanol, which feels decent to the touch — if not a bit slippery.

The cane is crushed and mashed to produce juice, which is then fermented and distilled, producing ethanol.

I think it's very interesting that last November, Florida Governor Charles Crist — the governor of the state that produces more sugar cane than any other, and about a fifth of all American sugar — visited Brazil and proposed ending America's tariff on sugar ethanol from that country.

They have portrayed sugar cane as the steamroller of agriculture, flattening forests and untold species of wildlife in its path, and decried ethanol as a serious polluter crossdressing as green fuel.

The last drew a round of applause, and Mr. Clinton took the opportunity to endorse — perhaps controversially — the effort undertaken by President Bush and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year: To heavily promote the production and use of ethanol made from sugar cane throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Re # 153, A recent report tells us that Ethanol from corn / sugar cane is good but not good enough, however Ethanol from biomass is a very good idea and could provide > 20 % of the USA's liquid fuel.

Ethanol's EROI is around 5:1 with 7:1 available from sugar cane.

Western Biomass Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Blue Sugars Corporation (previously KL Energy) reported the major milestone of claiming the first cellulosic ethanol tax credits under the RFS2 for a 20,069 gallon batch of cellulosic ethanol produced from bagasse (sugar cane waste) in April 2012.

Similarly emissions factors would be developed for wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel.

Other bioenergy fuels such as wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel have their own distinct lifecycle fuel inputs and carbon emissions, raising the thorny issue of assessing and taxing their lifecycle carbon emissions.

This received a big boost in Brazil, when companies with cane - based ethanol distilleries realized that burning bagasse, the fibrous material left after the sugar syrup is extracted, could simultaneously produce heat for fermentation and generate electricity that they could sell to the local utility.

That will be handled like cane juice to make more ethanol, on top of the above estimates.

Corn to ethanol yields per acre are around 40 % of sugar cane to ethanol yields, so I calculate that it would take 100 % of all the agricultural cropland of the USA to generate its current gasoline demand.

Industrial countries could produce enough sugar cane / grain ethanol and / or cellulosic ethanol to replace the 75 + million barrels / day they consume without adversed effects on food production and / or major changes in land use.

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel.

The sugarcane would then provide feedstock for an ethanol plant, with leftover cane used to create biomass electricity at night with a nearby solar concentrator complex generating power during the day.

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).

The success of biofuels in Brazil is largely a result of the high productivity of sugar cane and the suitability of the feedstock for efficient conversion to 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.

The total water flow in a sugar - cane - ethanol distillery is approximately 22 m3 per tonne of sugar cane processed, but new plants can be designed to withdraw only 1 m3 per tonne of cane.

SunOpta's patented pretreatment and hydrolysis technology will prep and convert sugar cane bagasse and possibly hard wood waste to ethanol at a plant in Jennings, Louisiana.

In summary, there is sufficient land zoned for sugar cane for Brazil to produce approximately 4 — 5 times as much ethanol than is produced today (˜6.2 billion gallons in 2008).

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

I have seen studies showing corn ethanol from sugar cane grown in tropical áreas (for example in Brazil) does have a positive emissions ratio.

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.

But dropping the subsidy makes Brazil's cane sugar ethanol more viable on the market — and that is a more environmentally sound fuel.

Biofuels» Emissions Benefits Often Overstated Citing the study, Reuters reports that, «The OECD said that if Brazil's ethanol produced from sugar cane cuts greenhouse gas emissions by around 80 %, biofuels from other feedstocks in the United States, the EU or Canada tend to have a far lower environmental benefit.

Plantations in Brazil, the world's biggest producer of ethanol from sugar cane, haven't encroached on land used for food cultivation or on the Amazon rainforest, he asserted.

For ethanol from sugar cane produced in Brazil, the net energy gain is about 8 or 9 to 1.

Though it's only occasionally on the public biofuel radar in the United States, what with corn ethanol and Brazilian sugar cane hogging the headlines, in the subtropical and tropical regions where the plant thrives, Jatropha has received much more attention.

Sugar cane is inherently more viable for ethanol production than is, say, corn.