ecology
Bagasse | Unwanted Byproduct or Clean Energy
Thursday, November 19th, 2009When sugar juice is extracted from sugar cane, what’s left is a fiber called bagasse. Every 10 tons of sugar cane leaves 3 tons of the stuff. Until recently it was simply waste, but scientists realized that sugar cane bagasse can be used to produce energy; for example, energy used for sugar production. Get it? You take sugar cane and, with minimal overhead expenditure, you turn it into sugar.