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 »

Experts of the Valencian Community and of institutions at national level debate on the effects of the biofuels in the feeding, the deforestation and the human rights.”Â

A varied group of experts of the Valencian Community and entities at national level debated last Thursday September 11th on the myths and realities of the influence of the production and biofuels use in questions as the alimentary security, the climatic change, etc. Leer más »

Interview with Douglas Arent, director of the renewable energy laboratory of USAÂ

The official said that the use of raw materials in biofuels won’t necessarily imply an increase of prices
Douglas Arent: “I believe that the possibilities with the biofuels are very attractive in the Argentina”
Picture: Fernanda Corbani

The debate on the use of foods for the production of alternative energy could be solved with the development of new technologies. The projections of the United States are optimistic about the industrial reach that, as they say, will achieve the energy generation on the base of agricultural residuals and other natural sources. The advances would allow to avoid the competition with the nutritious products, to which is attributed between a 3 and 4 percent of their rise in the price, according to the index that elaborates the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Â

As was expressed by Douglas Arent, director of the renewable energy laboratory of the North American government’s (NREL, for his initials in english), when receiving LA NACION in the embassy of that country in Buenos Aires. Leer más »

The Oriental Republic of the Uruguay depends in great measure of external energy sources, at least until they discovered some gas and petroleum locations that could feed the country during almost 100 years. Anyway, it could try to incorporate a bigger load of renewable energy, since it doesn’t participate in the non renewable energy market. Leer más »

Siemens discards the nuclear market in the short term, Spain will be its “laboratory” to develop the business. The company won’t carry out new acquisitions.Â

LONDON. – The technological german group will intensify its presence in the renewable energy market and it won’t bet for the nuclear energy in the short term, as it has advanced its president and managing director, Peter Löscher, in an encounter with the international press held in London. 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 »

Parque Español: The minister Strada and congressman Doña (second and third, from right to left), in a great solar plant in Seville, Spain, some few weeks ago.Â

Besides the factory of solar panels, there is a plan to install a solar power station and for the houses. Leer más »

Mesa Power ordered hundred of windmills to General Electric to produce clean electric power in Texas.Â

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The american conglomerate General Electric received a purchase order for 667 eolic mills from the group Mesa Power, that plans to create the biggest eolic plant in the world, in the north end of the State of Texas, according to a press release published this thursday.

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Presidents from Latin America and Europe on Friday seeked for common formulas to counteract the global heating, in a debate impregnated with polemic on the biofuels and their supposed link with the world alimentary crisis. Leer más »