Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'cane'
Sugar cane ethanol and Brazil
There's a piece entitled Why the Promise of Biofuels is a lie by Robert Bryce. It is pretty anti biofuels, mainly ethanol, it doesn't talk about biodiesel. It is worth looking at for the way it pulls together a couple...
Peru eyes US for ethanol exports... perhaps
Greentech Media has a story about sugar cane ethanol from Peru, potentially being exported to the US. I think it is doubtful for a number of reasons... The delivered cost to a coastal blending plant in the US,would have to...
Philippines Sugar Regulatory Administration wants to use excess to make biofuel
The Philippines Sguar Regulatory Administration is working on a plan to connect biofuel producers with sugar mills and planters in the country to use up excess sugar. The plan is scheduled to be implemented in the first half of next...
FAO wants biofuel support examined and outlines world biofuel capacity
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation wants subsisidies, tariffs and tax-breaks for biofuels production examined and possibly reduced in a press release which marks the publication of its annual report The State of Food. That report makes a compelling...
Ethanol to power in Pakistan
There's an interesting story about Pakistani sugar cane growers making ethanol to power an electricity generation station from the Associated Press of Pakistan. Could this model be used elsewhere? Thanks to rsteenblik....
Indian Sugar cane to ethanol: a study
Thanks to Draka for this information on the state of ethanol production in India from Current Science. As Draka says, in a comment below, sugar cane takes a lot of water to grow....
Are biofuels causing food price rises? Gallagher's answer
The Gallagher Review into biofuels has a view on how the diversion of food into biofuel crops affects prices but its not clear. Partly that's because it's economics (if predicting the weather is hard, why do economists try to produce simple...
Possible biofuel crops for Mozambique
A preliminary study on biofuel production in Mozambique has suggested that the most appropriate crops to use would be sunflower, sugar cane and sweet sorghum, according to a repot in allAfrica.com. The report points out the difficulty of trying to...
Brazil's sugar cane cutters to lose their jobs
According to the Guardian online, Brazil's sugar cane plantations are going to be increasingly mechanised, leading to job losses in the cane cutters. ...
Nevermind molasses, ferment sugar cane-- Indian government
According to Planet Ark, yesterday India's cabinet started allowing sugar companies to manufacture ethanol directly from sugarcane juice to aid mills struggling with surplus stocks. Until now, ethanol was produced entirely from the sugarcane byproduct, molasses. Looks like they're solving...
Look out for Japanese super sugar cane ethanol
Japanese researchers have developed a super sugar cane that produces double the volume of sugar comapred with traditonal cane, and could help make ethanol more cheaply... here's the video......
Indian government Energy advisor warns on biofuels
An Indian government energy advisor has warned that biofuels could pose problems for his country and would not be the best way to use land or water resources. Surya P Sethi was quoted by Ashok Sharma in the Financial Express,...
Ethanol is not always good, in Barbados
Ethanol is not always a good idea, in countries like Barbados. That is the story the Barbados Free Press has on-line, about the visit of some European Union advisors to the country, who were sent to look into the suitability...
US looks to sugar for biofuels
The United States congress is looking to amend the agriculture act to allow sugar beet and sugar cane grown in the states to be used to make biofuels, according to biopact....
Brazilian government liberates sugarcane workers from slave like condidions
The Brazilian government liberated sugar cane workers from slave like conditions yesterday, according to a report on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) 1100 people were released in the first move on a sugar cane field since...
Venezuela’s plans for biofuel are they bananas?
Bioethanol aficionados may be pleasantly surprised to see this recent post on Biopact.com which states: According to Prensa Latina state-run company Petroleos de Venezuela is creating a joint venture (not clear with who, but likely a Brazilian partner) for the...
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