Brazilian company Raizen SA made the country’s first shipment of sugar-cane ethanol to be converted into green jet fuel in a US plant, as competition heats up to supply the nascent market.
The sugar and ethanol maker, a joint venture between Shell Plc an Cosan SA, was behind a cargo of ethanol sent to the US in March to be used as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), according to documents seen by Bloomberg.
The race to supply the ethanol feedstock for SAF is critical, as ethanol’s traditional key market — cars with internal combustion engines — has been threatened by the rise of electric vehicles. With about 40% of US corn today supplying domestic mills making ethanol for use as a transportation fuel....
Adding ethanol to our gasoline has been a net negative for so-called "carbon emissions", you use way more energy farming that garbage.....It's just farmer welfare.
It's a massive waste of resources to turn plants (sugar cane or corn) into roughly the same molecular structure that we already get from domestic petroleum resources with few of the downsides.
Don't even get me started what it does to small engines and the fuel system.
