The president from Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, participated in the closing of the “International Conference on biofuels”, in Sao Paulo (Brasil) Photo: EFE.Â

The alimentary crisis is due to the speculation in financial markets, in raw materials, and of the oil industry; the ethanol and the biodiesel, combine growth with environmental development, but also with social responsibility.Â

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, exempted the biofuels today of any responsibility in the world alimentary crisis, that attributed to the speculation in the financial markets and the raw materials. Leer más »

As they informed from the brazilian government the reedbeds sowed to obtain ethanol, would not be dangerous. Agency APÂ

The expansion of the reedbeds in Brazil to satisfy the growing demand of ethanol in the world won’t damage the Amazonas rainforest, said on Monday a high employee of the government. Â

In declarations at the beginning of a five days international conference on biofuels, the government’s general secretary, Dilma Rousseff, said that the country will announce a plan of agricultural areas very soon to specify where the cane can be cultivated, both for sugar or energy generating. Leer más »

The high specialization and professionalism of Expobioenergía has transformed it into the  sector´s annual appointment and so is it shown by the numbers that have been mentioned during its third edition. Â

Expobioenergía.08 reached the foreseen objectives and it attracted a total of 13.186 visitors, 40% more than in the previous edition. This fact, next to the high grade of satisfaction shown by the exhibitors makes Expobioenergía become again the obliged appointment of the bioenergy sectorduring 2009. Leer más »

The next leader has a plan for the rural communities of his country. Here, the main points. Â

The elected president of the United States, Barack Obama, and its co-equiper, vice-president Joe Biden, are already working in what they have denominated the “Plan of Support to the Rural Communities.” Â

To guarantee economic opportunities to the establishments of family nature is one of the objectives that heads the list of the next leader, according to his platform. Leer más »

Experts assure that the impact in the country will be minimum, but they advise to be alert. Â

When the 40 entities that conform the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain decided the agenda of their fifth annual forum-under the title “agriculture and atmosphere, a shared agenda for the sustainable development”-, the scenario on which the complex moved was far from being the desired one, but it was much better than the current one. Leer más »

Barack Obama-EFE Técnicas Reunidas can suffer by the taxes to the oil companies and Iberia and Acerinox, due to the labor costs.

The victory of Barack Obama is not only going to have repercussions on the American companies. Many Spanish values have interests on the greatest economy of the world and its future growth on the other side of the Atlantic can be conditioned by the new president´s support to one or the other sector.

Esther Martin remembers that Obama was committed to invest 15,000 million annual dollars during 10 years in clean energies. In this point, she adds that Spain is the major foreign investor in wind power, with almost 5,000 MW installed in the USA. Therefore, she hopes that Acciona, Gamesa, Iberdrola Renovables, Abengoa y CIE Automotive will be favored. Leer más »

A mushroom able to produce components as those that are in the diesel gasoline were discovered in the Patagonia.Â

The mushroom could be a potential source of clean fuel for cars. Â

The mushroom, affirmed an investigation published in the Microbiology magazine, could potentially be a new green energy source. Leer más »

Many agricultural products can be transformed into raw materials for the production of alternative fuels. Now an analysis by scientifics of the Agricultural Research (ARS) indicates that the agricultural products can be used this way without reducing the food supply, the capacity of the floor to produce cultivations, or the environment quality of USA. Leer más »

In recent years we have seen a fast increase in the prices of the petroleum barrel, what has had a cascade effect in the prices of most of the products of the consumers. This largely is due to that the petroleum is primarily the main source of raw material for many products. Other reasons given in the public debate is the growth of CHINDIA (China and India), speculation in the stock exchange, uncertainty in the Half East, Venezuela and Chávez, predictions of locations, among others.Â

The biofuels is combustible derived of alive beings or of the waste that these produce. These include Solids (Wood, straw, etc.), Biogas from excrements/waste, and Liquids (bioethanol, biobuthanol, biodiesel, etc.) derived of the compounds of the plants (starch, lignocellulose, oils, etc.). Based in this definition the biofuels has been used for centuries, a lot before the petroleum became the main source of the element carbon (C) in our lives. Leer más »

Studies by the investigators Yong Gu (left) and John Vogel on the wild grass Brachypodium is revealing genetic information that could be useful in investigations of the grass Panicum virgatum as raw material for the biofuel.Â

A small and short herb called Brachypodium distachyon (also known as chirate or wall grass) could accelerate the discoveries on the grass Panicum virgatum, its famous cousin that has much potential as a raw material for biofuels. Leer más »