Today in Digest discussion groups: “Our enhanced Agave tequilana weber variety contains 3X more sugars than sugarcane (in Brazil).”

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At LinkedIn: Arturo Velez Jimenez, CEO, Agave Project: “Our enhanced Agave tequilana weber variety (the plant we have used to produce tequila for nearly 3 centuries) contains 3X more sugars than sugarcane (in Brazil) and more cellulose than the GMO Poplar tree. One hectare of our cultivar produces 5,000+ gallons of distilled ethanol and 80+ tonnes of dry biomass (with 52+ tonnes of cellulose) per year (average, since agave takes 6 years to harvest).”

David Green, Biotechnology professional: “I enjoy scale-up and design of large-scale fermentation facilities and have spent most of my career in that area. I am concerned about the use of corn or other foods for fuel but am very interested in technologies to convert cellulose to energy. I have done some work in the past on alternative fuels and have always found that the energy to produce, collect and process the feedstocks has exceeded the energy value of the product unless there was some unusual circumstance such as locating the processing plant next to a cheap source of energy. The most plentiful renewable energy source is solar and our ultimate goal shuld be solar energy but in the interim, the solution to the energy situation is probalby going to be a wide range specialized solutions.”

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