The secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the climate summit AP.

The secretary of American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has affirmed that United States is ready to fight against the climatic change and resolved to “recover the lost time” regarding the control of the emissions of hothouse effect gases. The responsible for External of the Government of Obama made these declarations during the inauguration in Washington of an international meeting on the climatic change summoned by the new tenant of the White House. Leer más »

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – It’s corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather — and hoping there is enough water.

Rexford plans to start seeding his 7,000 acres near Meade, Kansas, this week and he is relishing a recent heavy snow storm that dropped several inches of much-needed moisture.

Like corn farmers throughout the United States, Rexford hopes to grow a healthy crop yielding more than 150 bushels an acre this year. Much of his crop will wind up at a nearby ethanol plant.

And that puts the 65-year-old Rexford at the center of a bitter divide over biofuels, particularly corn ethanol. Leer más »

The fair achieved the support of San Lorenzo’s Chamber.Â

It will be held from April 3rd to 5th and the prices of the stands didn’t raise. It is expected to gather more than 120 companies and to be a thermometer of the cord activity.Â

Puerto San Martin has already set date for the fourth edition of the Expopuerto, the most important party in the area, where the small, medium and big industries that integrate the productive chain, show their potential. The event will held from the 3rd to 5th of April in the Parque Linda Vista. Leer más »

Important announcements for the promotion of the biofuels will be made this Wednesday January 14th by the minister of Energy, Marcelo Tokman, during a visit to the facilities of the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology of the Faculty of Sea Resources of this Institute of Superior Studies.   Â

The academic unit welcomes an interesting initiative of this area, developed by the Technological Scientific Center of Investigation for the Mining, CICITEM and the University of Antofagasta. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The bioenergy and the renewable fuels open the door to a new time for the humanity, augured this Tuesday diverse participants in the International Conference on Biofuels that is carried out in Sao Paulo.Â

With the development and the expansion of the ethanol and the biodiesel “I believe that we are in a paradigm change, in a time change for the humanity”, expressed this Tuesday the mexican Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nation’s Cepal (Comisión Económica para América Latina ). After the era of the fossil fuels, now “it is the era of the biomass, with the humanity developing the triptych of biodiversity, biotechnology and biofuels”, Bárcena affirmed. 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 »

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 »

The new world energy policies and the possibilities of the Argentina. Martin Fraguío, Executive Director of Maizar. Â

Source: Infocampo/Canal 9

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 »

The brewery paid that figure to start up a system that allows to generate energy starting from the sawdust that the timber industry discards.

Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes invested more than 10 million pesos in the implementation of a system that allows to generate energy starting from the sawdust that the timber industry discards. The initiative began in 2004, in Corrientes, and now it will become extensive to the plants that the company possesses in Zárate and Quilmes. Leer más »