Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'sugar'
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 industry gets new biofuel grading
The Philippines Sugar Regulatory Authority has decided to set up a new classification for sugar to be used for biofuels. It looks like a way of properly accounting for sugar which would otherwise be counted as exports. Sugar production in...
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...
Syngenta in high yeild sugar cane development
In a statement issued late last week, Syngenta said it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta´s innovation would reduce planting costs per hectare by some 15%, driven by...
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...
Syngenta unveils tropical sugar beet in India
Syngenta has unveiled a new tropical sugar beet that produces around as much sugar as cane, the company says. The crop matures in five months and uses less water than cane. This could be useful for ethanol production in the...
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....
How India could join the biofuel explosion
There's an interesting article about how India's policies are stopping India create biofuel on the Hindu business line. They're subsidising the wrong thing, apparently. I think. ...
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. ...
Praj wins big biofuel contract to supply Vivergo
Praj has won a big biofuels contract to supply key equipment to Vivergo Fuels, UK through its subsidiary, BioCnergy Europa B. V, a Joint Venture with Aker Solutions, Netherlands, according to myiris.com,. The plant is designed to produce 400m litre/year fuel...
Brazil wants biofuels tariff reduction fast tracked at WTO
Brazil wants the WTO to fast track tariff reductions for biofuels on the basis that they are an environmental good, according to Bridges Weekly Trade Digest. Brazil was making representations at Doha Round negotiations on liberalising trade in environmental goods,...
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' Sweet adiction to sugar farmers
The price of the US' sweet addiction to sugar farmers and the potential for further distorting the market for ethanol in the US is explored in a post over on the Politics of Food. Rachel C. Dechenne says in a...
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