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Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels

Tropical maize may be better than US corn for biofuels according to Physorg.com . There are researchers in the mid west growing tropical maize, it grows to about 14 feet (about 4m) and because it does not produce ears concentrates sugar in its stem. I guess that it grows in a manner similar to traditional...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
World Bank blames biofuels for rising food prices

The World Bank's Development Prospects Group blames biofuels for rising food prices. For me the key passages in the 21page pdf are these. The United States is the largest producer of ethanol from maize and is expected to use about 81 million tons for ethanol in the 2007/08 crop year. Canada, China...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008
Fuel from Corn

I saw this image on Flickr (thankyou Mista Fitz) and thought it was a rather strong image of what many people think is wrong with biofuels at the moment. It may not tell the whole story in terms of the price of food. It's a pretty healthy-looking piece of corn, not a dried-up seed head from a drought...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008

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