Fuel
New Jet Biofuel Derived from Oil-producing Sugarcane
If grown on 23 million acres of now-marginal land in the U.S. Southeast, the sugarcane-plant feedstock could supply 65 percent of U.S. jet-A consumption.

A new jet biofuel feedstock developed by researchers at the University of Illinois could produce up to 15 times more jet fuel per hectare than soybeans, according to the scientists. If grown on 23 million acres of now-marginal land in the U.S. Southeast, it could supply 65 percent of U.S. jet-A consumption, they said.


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