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Sugarcane yeilds set to soar
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog)
Quoting from the World Ethanol meeting in Amsterdam last week, organised by FO Lichts the Energy blog talks about the yield from sugar cane increasing over the next few years
If this is true, it seems that countries in the tropical and semi-tropical climates have a huge advantage when their ethanol is compared to corn ethanol and will continue to have an advantage compared to cellulosic ethanol. The energy advantage combined with their labor cost advantage are a powerful combination.
The comments are worth looking at in terms of the amount of fertiliser that will be needed to maintain yields and what it might do to the soil.
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Quoting from the World Ethanol meeting in Amsterdam last week, organised by FO Lichts the Energy blog talks about the yield from sugar cane increasing over the next few years
If this is true, it seems that countries in the tropical and semi-tropical climates have a huge advantage when their ethanol is compared to corn ethanol and will continue to have an advantage compared to cellulosic ethanol. The energy advantage combined with their labor cost advantage are a powerful combination.
The comments are worth looking at in terms of the amount of fertiliser that will be needed to maintain yields and what it might do to the soil.
More (from The Big Biofuels Blog)...