Brazil is not losing the train of cellulosic ethanol
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil visited last week a plant near São Paul which is testing a new method to obtain ethanol from sugarcane
Plans are to have a full-working plant in 2011 that is able to process 10 tons of pomace and produce 2,800 liters of ethanol from it per day. Although theoretically the process can use any kind of agricultural waste, the plant is being tuned up to use sugarcane pomace, because there's currently more of that than anything else.
Both Petrobras and the Government of Brazil consider this plant the country's first step towards second generation biofuels.
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[Source: Econoticias]
[Edited: Thanks to Chris for the correction on the correct term for bagasse]
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dean 2:57PM (11/01/2007)
Funny thing. We (in the US)want to be like Brazil with pretty much making all their own fuel. But they are cutting down rainforest for more sugarcane fields and other crops. So they aren't really "greening" themselves. I hope the US learns from this.
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Guenther 12:03PM (11/01/2007)
Sweeeeeeet!- sorry, had to be said. If the Brazilians can make it work with sugar cane , it should then be ready to put an end to this corn ethanol stupidity.
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Chris M 5:49PM (11/01/2007)
Minor technical correction: "Pomace" is what is left over after extracting the juice from grapes.
The leftovers from sugar cane juice extraction is called "Bagasse".
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