Ethonol from Phillipeans

As ethonol demand grows it becomes profitable to increase sugarcane acerage in various parts of the world. Still in the longrun, the required investment in sugar mills, may eventually need to go dark or to process sugar again when a better source of ethonol is found. In the meantime


"Quezon City (1 September) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) has already validated a total of 60,250 hectares of new sugarcane areas that can produce a combined 274 million liters of bioethanol, which is more than enough to meet the requirement under the Biofuels Act on the blending of crop-based alternative fuels with gasoline by 2009. "

The Waterfront That Sugar Built

The Waterfront That Sugar Built

This article provides a good summary of sugar refining in New York. People like me, living in the shadow of the massive C & H Refinery, should read it with the knowledge that the C & H brand and the Domino brand are now owned by the same company.

The Havemeyer family began refining sugar in Manhattan in 1805. Many of the
firms that made up Brooklyn's industrial waterfront originated in Manhattan, and
moved across the river when they needed more and cheaper space. Frederick
Havemeyer and his brother William, the once and future mayor of New York City,
moved the family business to Williamsburg in 1857. The firm became Havemeyer
& Elder in 1863, when Frederick's son-in-law, Joseph Elder, joined. The firm
eventually passed to Frederick's son, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, who became, in
effect, the John D. Rockefeller of sugar, forming the Sugar Trust and becoming
the most powerful person in the global sugar trade. The plant on the
Williamsburg shore served as Henry's flagship. Before the federal government
broke up the Sugar Trust in 1922, New York City had refined as much as 70% of
the raw sugar in America.
Domino's closing in 2004 meant that 2005 was the
first year in 275 years that no sugar refinery operated within the present
boundaries of New York City.
With the trust, the Havemeyer & Elder name
disappeared. The company became American Sugar Refining in 1891, and registered
Domino as a trade name in 1902. In 1970, American Sugar became Amstar, then
Domino Sugar Corp. in 1988, and in 2001 American Sugar once again.

Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF - San Francisco Bay Area - Chowhound

There was the day that Coke was a major customer of C and H Sugar.



Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF - San Francisco Bay Area - Chowhound: "Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF Yesterday, I bought a case of 24 glass bottles of Coke bottled in Mexico at the Costco at 10th and Harrison in SF. There was a sign posted with the Coke that said that it was made with pure cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. I haven't tried it yet, because I'm letting the bottles chill in the fridge. I'll report back when I taste it. --NancyB Permalink Reply Nancy Berry May 01, 2007 06:31PM "

GO BARRY!

ESPN - Washington Nationals vs. San Francisco Giants Preview, August 6 2007 - MLB

Despite not being a baseball fan, I am excited about Bonds breaking the homerun record.

Domestic Fuel » Archives » North Dakota Gets “e” for Ethanol

Domestic Fuel » Archives » North Dakota Gets “e” for Ethanol: "North Dakota Gets “e” for Ethanol "

Corn was never a real big crop in ND. Maybe they can find a way to convert alkali weeds to ethanol. Actually sugar beets can be used for this purpose too.