Sentences with phrase «leaves of sugarcane»
Since then, through genetic engineering we've increased production of oil and fatty acids to achieve 12 percent oil in the leaves of sugarcane.
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MIT students and lecturer Amy Smith turned to widely available bagasse, the stalks of sugarcane plants left after squeezing the sugar out, and created a charcoal replacement by burning, compressing, and mixing the material with a binding agent.
Today you'll leave Port Douglas for the friendly town of Mossman, passing through sugarcane fields on the 30 minute scenic drive north.
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.
Though sugar is refined from both sugarcane and beets, cane sugar is preferred — accounting for about 70 percent of the world's sugar supply — and it is the molasses left over from this process that most rum makers use.