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Eco Factor: Low-cost way to convert sugarcane juice into useful fuel. Colorado-based Amyris Biotechnologies opened up a demonstration plant with a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons a year in Campinas, Brazil, to demonstrate large-scale...

India, which is the largest grower of sugarcane in the world and also the second largest producer of sugar, wants to use the crop more than just as a sweetener. India will be using this massive oversupply of sugar to boost eco-friendly fuel and...

Making ethanol form corn and sugarcane is no more a new concept! With the demands for bio-fuel soaring, to shift a bit of the increasing burden from ethanol, a Japanese research group has developed a technology that extracts ethanol from 'inedible...

The world is chasing not only towards clean energy, but also cost-effective ethanol production. Queensland University of Technology and Farmacule BioIndustries have developed new sugarcane plants to produce cost-effective ethanol from it! The approach..