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…sugar prices, and by valorizing waste streams such as molasses for ethanol and bagasse for cogenerated electricity. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Sugar is the crucial feedstock for one-third of…
Our outlook for biofuels in energy transition investigates how food and energy shortages will re-shape liquid biofuels? This 11-page note explores four questions. Could the US re-consider its ethanol blending…
…are GDP growth, fuel economy, electric vehicles, going online, industrial efficiency, expanded recycling, wind and solar, heat pumps, corn ethanol and sugar ethanol, renewable diesel, ammonia shipping fuels, biogas to…
…lignocellulosic energy that is contained in fast-growing grasses and crops, but which is not currently useful, and thus ends up decomposing. This could involve digestion into biogas, combusting sugar ethanol…
…yields fall to c11-13M calories/acre for rice, 4-6M for wheat, 2-6M for soybeans. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/04/29/ethanol-getting-wasted/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/05/13/ethanol-hangover-cures/ (3) Animal agriculture has >85% lower yields per overall acre. Producing 1 calorie of eggs…
…acre, and 2.8 gallons of ethanol per bushel. Multiply through and the total ethanol production would be 80 bn gallons per annum, equivalent to c5Mbpd of oil: 5x larger than…
This data-file provides an overview of the 3.5Mbpd global biofuels industry, across its main components: corn ethanol, sugarcane ethanol, vegetable oils, palm oil, waste oils (renewable diesel), cellulosic biomass, algal…
Greater decarbonization at a lower cost is achievable by burying biomass (such as corn or sugarcane) rather than converting it into bio-ethanol. This model captures the economics. Detailed costs are…
…of reforestation potential in the US, and for perspective, 30M acres of US cropland is tied up in producing ethanol. Controversies and debates? Time for a humility moment. This model…
…Ethanol projects are most numerous, but also tend to be smaller at 0.2MTpa, and thus only underpin 4% of our risked total by 2035. Note that these are all pre-combustion…