I do not understand: Is he asking about food grade sugar (the product), or about beet roots (the feedstock)?
It would be pretty....suboptimal to use food grade sugar for fuel ethanol production..... Camillo Holecek -----UrsprŸngliche Nachricht----- Von: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. November 2002 12:52 An: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Cc: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [biofuels-biz] FW: Sugar to ethanol From: "Rodolfo Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In the context of discussion of reform of the EU Common Agriculture >Policy (recognising that the current MTR proposals do not cover the >sugar regime, but anticipating that such reform may come down the >line), I was asked the following question: > >"By how much would sugar prices within the European Union have to >fall before it would become economic to consider conversion to >ethanol for fuel (as per Brazil)". > >I'd be very pleased to hear any ideas (in terms understandable to a >non sugar industry specialist). > >Jim Harvey, London Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
