Italy’s “green fuel” crops to help cut global warming
From China’s Xinhua news service: Italy’s “green fuel” crops to help cut global warming
Sugar-beet, sunflowers, fruits and cereals could help Italy fight global warming, thanks to a new lawaimed at replacing fossil-derived fuels with green alternatives, Italian News Agency ANSA said on Monday.
Classic Italian crops are ideally suited for the production of bioethanol and biofuel, which emit 40 percent and 70 percent less carbon dioxide
respectively than traditional fuels, according to Italian experts.Italy has promised that bioethanol and biofuel will make up 5.75 percent of the Italian fuel market by 2010 and nearly 12 percent by 2020.
- It’d probably smell quite nice too - DS
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