Green Options - Fuel - Sugar

Sugar

Green Options is NBR's continuing series examining the latest eco-friendly advancements and their economic impact. In this report filed under the Fuel category, NBR correspondent Jeff Yastine investigates U.S. efforts to produce ethanol from sugar cane waste product.



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External Links/Articles*

• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that "provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decisionmakers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society." One of the center's energy analysts, Jennifer Bovair, is interviewed in Jeff Yastine's report. This links to the "Energy" section of the CSIS website.
• Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
  CEI is a "non-profit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government." This links to an executive summary of a February 2007 CEI report titled, "The Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Experience." A link to the full report is also provided.
• Florida Crystals
  Florida Crystals is a sugar producer headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company's director of industrial research and development, Steven Clarke, and its vice president, Gaston Cantens, are interviewed in Jeff Yastine's report. This links to the "Renewable Energy" section of the Florida Crystals website.
• Florida International University (FIU)
  George Phillippidis, associate director of FIU's Applied Research Center is interviewed in Jeff Yastine's report. The This links to a February 2007 press release from the Applied Research Center that is titled, "FIU and Florida Crystals to Develop Ethanol Technology."
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) (PDF Document)
  NREL is U.S. government's "primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development." This links to a February 2000 NREL report titled, "Lessons Learned from Existing Biomass Power Plants." The report includes a look at the Florida Crystals biomass plant in Okeelanta, Florida, which is profiled in Jeff Yastine's report.
• U.S. Department of Energy
  This links to the "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy" section of the U.S. Department of Energy website, which incluldes information about the department's biomass program. Biomass includes cellulosic ethanol.

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