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Brazilian sugarcane industry not happy with "Deadly Brew" documentary

Jan 26th 2008 8:28PM - 6 Comments

This past week, Bloomberg Television aired a documentary on the Brazilian ethanol industry called "Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol." With a name like that, you can probably guess that the filmmakers have a certain viewpoint on the way ethanol ...

Is sugarcane ethanol still a good alternative?

Jul 22nd 2008 10:58AM - 9 Comments

85 liters of ethanol per each tonne (metric) of sugarcane harvested. This is the output of a standard sugarcane ethanol plant. As we know, 45 percent of Brazilian fuel needs are covered by ethanol. Of course, what once was thought as the easy ...

Friends of the Earth, Brazilian sugarcane industry fight it out on ethanol

Sep 14th 2008 12:24PM - 3 Comments

Photo by Marxchivist. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. It's been so long (like six months) since there was a nice dispute about the impacts of Brazil's ethanol industry. In the past we've seen questions raised about the workers' ...

State of Florida gives out grant to develop cellulosic ethanol from sugarcane

Feb 24th 2007 7:20PM - 1 Comment

The State of Florida handed out $15 million in grants for a variety of biofuel projects resulting from the 2006 Florida Energy Act. Two thirds of that went to a variety of fuel and energy production projects, such as ethanol production facilities. ...

Brazil forecasts record sugarcane and ethanol production

Sep 3rd 2007 10:19AM - 2 Comments

Brazil's Companhia Nacional do Abastecimento is forecasting record levels for the 2007-2008 sugarcane production fuelled (pun intended) by the expansion of ethanol. According to this official organisation, this year's production of sugarcane will ...

Good sugarcane harvest means ethanol will continue to be cheap in Brazil

Sep 26th 2007 8:05AM - 0 Comments

Good news for Brazilians: the prices for ethanol has dropped 38 percent because of an increase in sugarcane production. Prices will continue its decrease, according to Júlio Maria Borges, an analyst at JOB Consultaría, even when the ...

Argentina establishes mandatory E5 and help for the sugarcane industry

Oct 16th 2007 4:02PM - 0 Comments

The President of Argentina, Néstor Kirschner, signed a bill (yet to be passed by the Senate) to promote sugarcane ethanol. This helps the recently passed Biofuels Bill, which establishes a mandatory five percent ethanol blend in all gasolines. ...

Brazil is not losing the train of cellulosic ethanol

Oct 31st 2007 11:06AM - 3 Comments

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 pomace bagasse (what's left after sugar is extracted). Petrobras, the company ...

So Paulo searching for cleaner ethanol through mechanization

Jan 2nd 2008 1:56PM - 0 Comments

Marcos Jank, president of the Sugarcane Union Industry (Unica) in Brazil recently said that, "We're ready to discuss an environmental, social and economic certification of ethanol." São Paulo's ethanol industry is ready to introduce new ...

Colombia and the United States announce biofuel cooperation agreement

Apr 27th 2008 8:41AM - 3 Comments

Some countries believe that their development expectations can be improved if they switch from oil-based fuels to biofuels. Such is the case of Colombia, a country that has just received the support of the United States to produce biofuel to satisfy ...

President Clinton headed to Ethanol Summit 2009

May 7th 2009 8:07AM - 8 Comments

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has snagged former U.S. President Bill Clinton to be a speaker at the upcoming Ethanol Summit 2009. The Summit takes place in Sao Paulo, Brazil in early June. Part of Clinton's post-White House ...

UNICA says 4th of July is the right time to end ethanol tariffs

Jul 3rd 2008 4:14PM - 4 Comments

Fourth of July equals fireworks, parades and, if the Brazilian sugarcane growers - represented by UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association - get their way, a reduced or eliminated ethanol import tariff. UNICA is calling on the U.S. ...

BYU research hints at a possibility of a fuel cell powered by sugar

Oct 5th 2009 8:00AM - 17 Comments

When it comes to sugar and cars, there's a type of cellulosic ethanol made from sugarcane, much of which is produced in Brazil. However, researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) have developed a catalyst that breaks glucose molecules in such ...

Dakar 2010: Klever Kolberg goes ethanol with UNICA's help

Sep 6th 2009 9:36AM - 1 Comment

Klever Kolberg and his ethanol-powered MItsubishi Pajero Sport - Click above for high-res gallery The 2009 Dakar Rally was won by a pair of diesel-powered Touareg TDIs. The oil-burners will face a new type of competition in the 2010 Dakar race ...

SEKAB claims the "World's First Verified Sustainable Ethanol"

May 27th 2008 12:13PM - 1 Comment

We're not 100 percent sure what "verified sustainable ethanol" means to everyone, but we do know that Swedish ethanol company SEKAB has worked hard to define the term. In fact, SEKAB is claiming to be the first in the world to supply this type of ...

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