The nation added more than 34 billion kiloliters of ethanol to gasoline in 2008, using 3.2 billion bushels of corn. |
Energy use rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier to the equivalent of 9.83 million kiloliters of oil in August, the Bureau of Energy said yesterday. |
The new plant, located in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, west of Shanghai, is expected to produce 95,000 kiloliters of beer in the first year, company officials said. |
That's because, each day, Earth's atmosphere recycles billions of kiloliters of salty seawater and turns it into fresh water. |
Brazil produced about 25,000 kiloliters of ethanol in 2008, and exported about 15 percent. |
The use of petroleum, which includes crude and fuel oil, more than doubled to 23.3 million kiloliters, or 147 million barrels, according to the federation. |