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Brazil BioFuels
An excellent article about the Brazilian Biofuel industry. They are far ahead of almost all countries with the production of biofuel from sugar as opposed to our idiotic pursuit using corn. They produce close to 4.7 billion gallons a year and are looking for the US as a market to supply. Of [...]
May 12, 2008 | bfarrey | Comments 0
Corn ? Sugar ? Why not Switchgrass?
Problem: Why is this difficult ? Farm lobbies, congress and others are getting in the way of the logical conclusion that energy from a food source is not as preferable as energy from a material grown for energy production.
Ethanol based on corn is not only inefficient in terms of net energy produced but also drives [...]
September 10, 2007 | bfarrey | Comments 1