Tag: biofuel

Brazil Will Have By 2013 World’s First Seaweed Biofuel Plant: a US$ 10 Million Project

The first industrial plant in the world capable of getting biofuels from seaweed should ...

Shell Shifts from Algae to Brazilian Sugarcane in Global Biofuel Push

Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s largest energy company and also the biggest ...

GM Is Turning Brazil into Biofuel Car World Leader

General Motors, in spite of its misfortune or long standing mismanagement in the US, ...

Brazilian President Touts Oil Discoveries as Brazil’s Second Independence

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says that while his government ...

There’s No Place for Brazil’s Ethanol and Biofuels in a Real Green World

An assorted alliance of organizations published an open letter [1] this Thursday, January 15, ...

Egypt Wants Brazil’s Technology on Deep-Water Drilling and Ethanol

The Egyptian minister of Petroleum, Sameh Fahmi, is in Brazil to attend the International ...

Brazilian President to Unveil Roadmap for Brazil’s Agriculture

One of the aims of the International Conference on Biofuels: Biofuels as a Vector ...

Brazil Starts Petrobras Biofuel, a US$ 1.5 Billion Venture

Brazil's Petrobras Biofuel, a subsidiary of the state-controlled oil multinational Petrobras, was officially inaugurated ...

Brazilian President Calls World Criticism of Biofuels “Dirty Trick”

Brazil is not that "poor little thing" anymore and the country will not allow ...

A Pre-Columbian Brazilian Practice Teaches World How to Grow Food

With food riots across the globe in the news, the immediate cause of food ...