Brazil: Biodiesel to Bring Electricity to Amazon Villages
By | Published: July 31, 2008
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: Oil from native tucuma, ouricuràand murumurú palm trees will be used to provide electricity to isolated communities in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon, which are too remote to supply with power by conventional means. A research team is preparing to start producing biodiesel this year at a plant in CarauarÃÂ, a district of 25,000 people that can only be reached by a 1,600-kilometre river journey, or by a two-and-a-half hour flight from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state. …
Brazil: Biodiesel to Bring Electricity to Amazon Villages
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Inter Press Service: Oil from native tucuma, ouricuràand murumurú palm trees will be used to provide electricity to isolated communities in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon, which are too remote to supply with power by conventional means. A research team is preparing to start producing biodiesel this year at a plant in CarauarÃÂ, a district of 25,000 people that can only be reached by a 1,600-kilometre river journey, or by a two-and-a-half hour flight from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state. …
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