A worker cuts sugar cane in a field belonging to the Moema sugar mill in Orindiuva, about 530 km (330 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 4, 2008. The Moema mill is one of dozens in Brazil which produce ethanol, as well as sugar, as part of Brazil's sugar can boom. Ethanol production began during the in 1970s during the nation's military government as a national security measure for energy independence. The independence never happened and ethanol gradually fell out of fashion, but those first steps have put Brazil at the forefront of the world's Bio-fuel boom as the fuel makes a comeback. More ethanol per acre is made from cane than from corn, and for less cost. The mills even use part of the cane to produce electricity run the plant. Aside from the fuels used in the field machinery, plants are energy self-sufficient. (Australfoto/Douglas Engle)
Workers cuts sugar cane in a field belonging to the Moema sugar mill in Orindiuva, about 530 km (330 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 4, 2008. The Moema mill is one of dozens in Brazil which produce ethanol, as well as sugar, as part of Brazil's sugar can boom. Ethanol production began during the in 1970s during the nation's military government as a national security measure for energy independence. The independence never happened and ethanol gradually fell out of fashion, but those first steps have put Brazil at the forefront of the world's Bio-fuel boom as the fuel makes a comeback. More ethanol per acre is made from cane than from corn, and for less cost. The mills even use part of the cane to produce electricity run the plant. Aside from the fuels used in the field machinery, plants are energy self-sufficient. (Australfoto/Douglas Engle)
