Tag: biodiesel

Brazil’s Petrobras Signs Biodiesel Contracts. 65,000 Families to Be Benefited

Brazilian oil company Petrobras signed today with four private companies their first contracts for ...

Brazil: Rio Wants All Buses Running on Biodiesel by the 2007 Pan American Games

A pilot bus run on biodiesel, a mixture that is 95% diesel oil and ...

Brazil Takes the Biodiesel Route

When German engineer Rudolf Diesel took the first diesel engine to the world fair ...

Poor families in Brazilian Northeast planting castor beans

A Model Farm Plants Fuel and Hope in the Brazilian Northeast

The dry and lifeless scenery of an abandoned cashew farm in the city of ...

Brazil Opens World’s Largest Cow-Fat Biodiesel Plant

The largest world factory converting bovine tallow into biodiesel will begin production next June ...

Lula Gives Push to Biodiesel Inaugurating Plant in Brazil’s Northeast

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will inaugurate today Brazil’s first biodiesel plant ...

Brazil Counting on Biodiesel to Generate 400,000 Jobs in Northeast

Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) hopes that the cultivation of castor beans, together ...

Brazil Dreams of Becoming a Biodiesel World Power

The III Brazil-Germany Working Meeting on Biodiesel, which took place on Friday, July 1st, ...

Brazil Has US$ 42 Million for Farmers Growing Crops for Biodiesel

Over 50 thousand family farmers and their families will be able to make more ...

Lula Wants Brazil to Be World’s Biofuel Supplier

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva affirmed that Brazil has the necessary requirements for ...