Sentences with phrase «cane ethanol industry»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.