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R.energy Expo Buenos Aires, October 22-24, 2008, invites the international industry of wind energy to fix the look in Argentina, celebrating a business and information meeting on the 22nd October in Buenos Aires. Argentina wants to generate 53 % of renewable energy aprox. in the year 2025 with the installation of windmills, reaching 2.000 MW. At this moment, Argentina has only installed 29,5 MW and assumes the number 40 in the world ranking of installed wind energy. Read all »
 The Brazilian ethanol contaminates less. Picture: AFP
The OECD says that it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%
PARIS (AFP). - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) highlighted, last Wednesday, the positive impact of the Brazilian ethanol, based on sugar cane, on the environment, since it reduces the emissions of polluting gases in at least 80%. Read all »
 The Petrosar buses that transport workers of Pan American Energy to the location of Cerro Dragón, constitute the pioneers in the use of that ecological fuel made of microalgaes.
The plant is the first in its type in the country. The refinement technique that is used doesn’t need water.
The governor and authorities participated of the ceremonial ribbon cutting that left the producing plant inaugurated. With the presence of the governor of Chubut, Mario Das Neves, and other provincial authorities, yesterday the first biodiesel refinery of Comodoro Rivadavia was inaugurated. Read all »
 Does Binner have support or not?
The ARI that integrates the ruling alliance in Santa Fe, presented a bill to finish with the tax benefits. But now the opposition came out to speak against it and the industry is expectant.
Legislators justicialistas came out today to oppose to the suspension of thebiofuel promotion régime, as a bill presented by the ARI proposes. Read all »
 INVESTIGATORS OF THE CSIC AND THE UPC
The device could transform ethanol into hydrogen in the own vehicle
Their applications would avoid the high costs of replacing the infrastructures
Image of the catalyst developed by investigators of the CSIC and the UPC. (Photo: CSIC)
MADRID. - A team of investigators of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC) and the Polytechnic University of Cataluña (UPC) has developed and patented a catalyst to obtain hydrogen starting from ethanol that, according to its designers, could be a definitive solution for the hydrogen based transport. Read all »
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Díaz, Sheryl Crow, Daryl Hannah… Many are the celebrities that make an effort to send their message in favor of the environment. They use hybrid cars, solar panels and possess sites and foundations dedicated to preach with the example. Read all »
 The alternative energies are not responsible for the shortage of foods, assured the Brazilian and outlined as solution to the problem the handing of incentives to developing countries to level the alimentary demand. Read all »
 The recycling, one of the keys to make of the planet a more livable habitat. Photo: Corbis
DiCaprio, Cameron Díaz, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, in campaign for a healthier world. Ecodesign, the tendency that arrives in the Argentina. 10 answers on green buildings.Advices to be a responsible consumer. What Obama and McCain propose on the climatic change. A group of citizens, to the rescue of the Reconquista river. Read all »
 A recent report of the World Bank considers that the biofuels production contributes by 75 percent in the rise of the food prices. And it points out, as an example, the North American case: there, more than a third of the corn began to be dedicated to the production of ethanol. The European case is not more encouraging: more than half of the vegetable oils are used as biodiesel raw materials. Read all »
 It is the Global Agricultural Resources (Gar) company.
Its representative in Argentina advanced that once they reach the 50.000 sowed hectares, they will install an oil factory and later on, a biofuel elaborato.
The Global Agricultural Resources (GAR) company, of Swiss capitals, advanced that it will build an oil plant oil in the Nea and later on, a biodiesel elaborator. Read all »
 The provincial deputy Antonio Riestra (ARI) presented a bill that establishes the suspension, for the term of one year, of the benefits foreseen in law 12.692, specifically in the biofuels area. The foundation is to determine, in this lapse, the impact that the promotion régime has in the provincial budget on the base of the annual report that should send to both legislative cameras the Ministry of the Production as application authority of the norm. Read all »
 The norm promotes as state policy the “regulatory outline and promotion for the investigation, development and sustainable use of sources of renewable not conventional energy, biofuels and hydrogen” in the whole provincial territory.
It aims to the self supply of energy in a ten year term, and to the revaluation of the role that the missionary producer has as central actor of the local economy. Read all »
 Green Fuel Argentina, of Spanish and national capitals, will lift a biodiesel plant in Rosario’s port.
As it was announced to punto biz by Osvaldo Sortino-president of Raiser, the local company that has 40% of Green Fuel Argentina-who specified that the works will start up toward ends of the year and that will take 20 months of work. The complex will demand an investment near to the u$s 30M. Read all »
 Leaders caricatured by activists said goodbye to the summit. Picture: AP
Annual summit of the powerful: polemic for luxuries at the end of the meeting.
Agencies EFE and AP
Toyako (Japan). The annual summit of the most powerful countries in the planet (G8) finished yesterday with words like “success” or “advances” in their leaders’ mouth, although the distant positions that they brought in many topics didn’t allow substantial agreements. Read all »
 The rise of the prices of petroleum and foods entered the world agenda.
The leaders of different countries began to refer to the possible causes of the problem, that can derive in the global industrial capacity loss, the increase of the poverty and the famines in important regions of the world. Read all »
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