tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post8811716372284699161..comments2024-03-29T06:37:24.116-07:00Comments on Green Explored: Gangrene SugarLindsay Leveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04155181091924399702noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690971792500080381.post-3985949878954769822011-11-12T21:24:38.747-08:002011-11-12T21:24:38.747-08:00Thanks for walking through how to get to the ultim...Thanks for walking through how to get to the ultimate farnesAne cost ($1.50-2.00/lb ~ $3307-4409/ton), that was very interesting.<br /><br />I'm confused because for companies that seem to go out of their way to say they are "feedstock agnostic", they seem to ferment the same sugar (sucrose). My hunch is that it is just a cost thing (~$25-30/pound, $551-661/ton for a 96% sucrose commodity called the #11 contract on the NY Intl Exchange) and that this key input represents a lot of the production costs. <br /><br />Does anyone know of an economic argument for using "organic" sugar? In terms of "Energy Returned on Energy Invested", wouldn't it make sense to use this input rather than fossil fuel intensive production (e.g. fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, irrigation pumps, etc)?<br /><br />I fear that we will be the only species to go extinct because it didn't make economic sense to survive.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07274439809676007675noreply@blogger.com