Sunday, February 13, 2011

Ethanol



More than half of world ethanol production is produced from sugar and sugar byproducts, with Brazil being by far the world leader. Currently, there is no commercial production of ethanol from sugarcane or sugar beets in the United States, where 97 percent of ethanol is produced from corn. Above you see the price of sugar rising and this is exactly also happening with corn. 
Is it worth to use biofuel and live greener, but risking that in the poor countries the prices for food rise too much? I think we should look to other "green" sources and move our focus on big companies instead of the consumer.

8 comments:

  1. Yeah, Ethanol bio fuel sounds good, for Brazil!

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  2. Hydrogen is quickly becoming more popular. And you can't eat hydrogen...

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  3. Biofuel isn't as green as people would have you think

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  4. it's actually alcohol that you cant drink

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  5. It's time to go green already. Big oil is holding us back.

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  6. Crude oil is better anyway. Long live oil!

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  7. Why are they not using this resource for vehicles yet? :-/

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