Also, would the new “super cane” be able to be grown in non-food producing land?

Also, would the new “super cane” be able to be grown in non-food producing land?

One sugarcane crop takes 12 to 16 months to mature, whereas their super sorghum can produce 3 crops in one year in the tropics. The plant also produces a grain plume, which the locals use to make flour and bread, and the leaves are used to feed their animals. After the sugary juice is squeezed to make ethanol, then you have the fiberous residue that can be put in a digester or a gassifier to make biogas or more fuel or energy. Super Sorghum is a highly advanced crop that small farmers can use to support their families and improve their standard of living.

Texas A&M has also developed a similar group of Super Sorghums that are well suited to more northerly climates, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska – where sugarcane is out of range. Again, you can plant sweet sorghum once a year and harvest it two or three times.

Here’s the Biggy: A variety of Corn is being developed with a sugary stalk. This could dramatically improve the productivity of the entire corn crop and the environmental footprint of corn ethanol refineries. Over 65% of Corn goes to livestock feed. So once we also get sugar out of corn stalk from all that feed corn, we’ll have another feedstock for domestic ethanol production that fits right into our infrastructure.

Biomass digesters and algae production are also being integrated into corn ethanol refineries. Waste CO2 bubbled through a 3% solution of sugar in ethanol plant waste water is an excellent growth medium for onsite heterotrophic algae – a double biofuel feedstock and a complete protein animal feed supplement.

Sugarcane and ethanol independence in Brazil is a remarkable achievement, but there is emerging agro-technology that will surpass it.

One sugarcane crop takes 12 to 16 months to mature, whereas their super sorghum can produce 3 crops in one year in the tropics. The plant also produces a grain plume, which the locals use to make flour and bread, and the leaves are used to feed their animals. After the sugary juice is squeezed to make ethanol, then you have the fiberous residue that can be put in a digester or a gassifier to make biogas or more fuel or energy. Super Sorghum is a highly advanced crop that small farmers can use to support their families and improve their standard of living.

Texas A&M has also developed a similar group of Super Sorghums that are well suited to more northerly climates, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska – where sugarcane is out of range. Again, you can plant sweet sorghum once a year and harvest it two or three times.

Here’s the Biggy: A variety of Corn is being developed with a sugary stalk. This could dramatically improve the productivity of the entire corn crop and the environmental footprint of corn ethanol refineries. Over 65% of Corn goes to livestock feed. So once we also get sugar out of corn stalk from all that feed corn, we’ll have another feedstock for domestic ethanol production that fits right into our infrastructure.

Biomass digesters and algae production are also being integrated into corn ethanol refineries. Waste CO2 bubbled through a 3% solution of sugar in ethanol plant waste water is an excellent growth medium for onsite heterotrophic algae – a double biofuel feedstock and a complete protein animal feed supplement.

Sugarcane and ethanol independence in Brazil is a remarkable achievement, but there is emerging agro-technology that will surpass it.

One sugarcane crop takes 12 to 16 months to mature, whereas their super sorghum can produce 3 crops in one year in the tropics. The plant also produces a grain plume, which the locals use to make flour and bread, and the leaves are used to feed their animals. After the sugary juice is squeezed to make ethanol, then you have the fiberous residue that can be put in a digester or a gassifier to make biogas or more fuel or energy. Super Sorghum is a highly advanced crop that small farmers can use to support their families and improve their standard of living.

Texas A&M has also developed a similar group of Super Sorghums that are well suited to more northerly climates, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska – where sugarcane is out of range. Again, you can plant sweet sorghum once a year and harvest it two or three times.

Here’s the Biggy: A variety of Corn is being developed with a sugary stalk. This could dramatically improve the productivity of the entire corn crop and the environmental footprint of corn ethanol refineries. Over 65% of Corn goes to livestock feed. So once we also get sugar out of corn stalk from all that feed corn, we’ll have another feedstock for domestic ethanol production that fits right into our infrastructure.

Biomass digesters and algae production are also being integrated into corn ethanol refineries. Waste CO2 bubbled through a 3% solution of sugar in ethanol plant waste water is an excellent growth medium for onsite heterotrophic algae – a double biofuel feedstock and a complete protein animal feed supplement.

Sugarcane and ethanol independence in Brazil is a remarkable achievement, but there is emerging agro-technology that will surpass it.