Tunuyán, first municipality to participate in the Bioenergy Program for UNC.

Tunuyan, also participates in investigations of oilseed rape, topinambur and biomass.

The municipality supports the research and development of biodiesel with a monthly financial contribution. Besides is the only department involved in the Bioenergy Program for 2007-2010.

Tunuyan is the only department across the province participating in the Bioenergy Program 2007-2010. With a monthly financial contribution, the municipality of Tunuyan supports research and development of biodiesel. 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 »

President Bush abandoned his resistance to the fixing of a long term objective for the climate protection. He did it in the mark of the G8 Summit. Â

The president of the United States, George Bush, abandoned today his resistance to the fixing of a long term objective for the climate protection, in the second day of the summit of the Group of the Eight (G8) that is carried out in the Japanese city of Toyako.Â

The bosses of State or of government of the seven richest nations of the world (United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Japan) plus Russia agreed to reduce the emissions of hothouse effect gases at least in half from today to year 2050. Leer más »

A british team of investigators, directed by a spanish, has developed a technology able to transform carbon dioxide (CO2), main responsible of the climatic change, into natural gas. The scientists assures that the discovery would be the perfect solution to the environmental contamination produced by CO2, when transforming combustion remainders into fuel. Leer más »