News : The substance from which SAs new mealie petrol will be made is known as bioethanol.Ethanol is 99 per cent alcohol in its purest form. The bioethanol industry is the largest economic development in the Free State since gold mining was started there. Unlike gold the supply of mealies is unlikely to be exhausted — farmers simply plant new crops to keep up the supply Brazil, the world leader in the development of biofuel, -uses sugarcane to make ethanol. In New Zealand ethanol is produced in an unusual way— as a by-product of lactose (milk sugar). Lactose is fermented using a special yeast that changes it into alcohol Who would have thought cows would one day keep trucks rolling?
