Not exact matches
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.