Who would have thought, sugar cane is a renewable feedstock.

   Yes, sugar cane can be used as a renewable feedstock. I was just shocked, just as you are reading this. Sugar cane is said to be a more beneficial and safer feedstock than corn. Ethanol that is produced from corn can damage the envirnoment. This type of ethanol can damage the envirnoment because this ethanol has the capability to release more gas emissions from greenhouses than regular fuels that are used daily.

    The ethanol produced by sugar cane, is the most efficient and the one that is the safest for the envirnoment. Some of the many reasons why it is the safest and most efficient is because it is a raw material that is commonly used in plastics, papers, and chemicals.  Another reason why it is the most efficient renewable feedstock that provides ethanol is because sugar cane is easy to grow and process and provides a high yield.

      The efficiency of sugar cane ethanol is better than that of the ethanol produced by corn. A sugar cane  plant can convert 2 percent of its solar energy into useable biomass. When the sugar from the sugar cane is extracted it is done with ease, so with being said the amount of energy of sugar cane is able to yield is  greater than that of corn. Each ton of sugar cane has the energy of 1.2 barrels of petroleum.

       In closing keeping in mind the information I have gathered about sugar cane ethanol, I would like to say that it does seem better than ethanol from corn. The sugar cane ethanol is also safer for the envirnoment since it does not produce green house gas emissions.  The uses of sugar cane are in items that are used daily by many people. This is just another way that the world can go green, using ethanol produced by sugar cane instead of ethanol produced by corn.
   

    




http://www.therenewablecorp.com/eco_efficiency/sugarcane_as_feedstock.htm