ITALY: From the sunflowers a bio petrol

The project ?Vegetable oil initiative for a cleaner environment? will be coordinated by the research center for the alternative and renewable powers (Crear) of the University of Florence. The center studies the possibility to use pure oil of sunflowers to create electric and thermic power and fuels for transports. ? Is an initiative that wants to probe the real possibilities of gainful cultivations for the local agricultural enterprises. The energetic production in the rural field can be a valuable tool to reach Kyoto?s aims? said the President of the Province of Florence Matteo Renzi. The principal benefit of the pure oil compared with the bio-fuel is that it can be produced and used on the spot by the farmers without chemical processes of transformation. www.ecosportelloenergia.org/stampa/newsletter.html