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Home > News > Searching for Biofuels' Sweet Spot

February 24th, 2010

Searching for Biofuels' Sweet Spot

Abstract:
California-based Amyris has used breakthroughs in synthetic biology to reinvent biofuels. To turn its technology into an industrial process, it has headed to the land of sugar: Brazil.

Brazil offers Amyris one critical advantage over the United States: the economic conditions there lend themselves to exploiting the technology commercially. Brazil is the world's most efficient producer of sugar. Huge mounds of it pile up at the country's 420 sugarcane refineries. With its tropical weather and aggressive business culture, the country dominates the global sugar trade. And enormous supplies of inexpensive sugar are the key to making Amyris's technology practical.

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