sugarcane Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:44:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Lufthansa Powers a Commercial Flight With New Biofuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lufthansa-powers-commercial-flight-new-biofuel-20140923/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lufthansa-powers-commercial-flight-new-biofuel-20140923/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:41:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49313 For a first time in European aviation history, a commercial airliner completed an entire flight using sugar-based biofuel. LH190 of the German Lufthansa, flew between Frankfurt and Berlin on the revolutionary blend of green fuel. The sugar-based biofuel is a product of the American biotechnological company Amyris in collaboration with Total oil group. It is […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lufthansa-powers-commercial-flight-new-biofuel-20140923/feed/ 0 49313 Burning Sugarcane Fields Bad for Ethanol's Carbon Footprint, Researchers Find https://www.greenoptimistic.com/burn-sugarcane-fields-ethanol-20111219/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/burn-sugarcane-fields-ethanol-20111219/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:35:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21572 Ethanol is already established as a good biofuel source and is being blended with gasoline to make the fossil fuel cleaner-burning. But ethanol that is made from sugarcane crops has been found dirtier than previously thought, if the fields are burned prior to harvesting. The discovery has been made by a team of researchers from […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/burn-sugarcane-fields-ethanol-20111219/feed/ 2 21572 Sugarcane Crops Showed to Cool Climate https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sugarcane-climate-cool-20110426/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sugarcane-climate-cool-20110426/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:29:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18199 Sugarcane has been touted as a sort of an inefficient biofuel crop, since it consumes a lot of water and fertilizer, and hence its carbon footprint is not the best for such a purpose, compared to algae, for example. Sugarcane, on the other hand, can help cool the climate in a certain way.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sugarcane-climate-cool-20110426/feed/ 0 18199 Low-Cost Way to Convert Sugarcane Juice into Useful Fuel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/low-cost-way-to-convert-sugarcane-juice-into-useful-fuel-20090711/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/low-cost-way-to-convert-sugarcane-juice-into-useful-fuel-20090711/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:19:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4001 The company Amyris Biotechnologies opened a plant in Campanis, Brazil, with a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons a year, to demonstrate large-scale production of hydrocarbons from sugarcane processed using its engineered microbes, which will convert sugarcane into conventional diesel fuel.

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