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 »

United nations predicts that millions of new employments will be created in the entire world in next decades through the development of alternative technologies. Â

More than a million people already work in the biofuels field, but a report of the UN says that it could rise to 12 millions by 2030.  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 »

The Spanish energy company Iberdrola will invest around 5.144 million Eurus (8.000 million dollars), in the renewable energy sector in United States between 2008 and 2010. Leer más »