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mission arrives in Sicily Salvador interested in expanding trade

A mission of six businessmen in the region of Sicily, Italy, will be in Salvador for the 17 April 22, interested in expanding trade, especially in the food, beverages and ceramic products. The mission is part of the delegation led by Secretary of Commerce, Handicrafts and Cooperation in Sicily, Raguz Mariano, and the mayor of the town of Sciacca, Mario Turturici, whose purpose is to deepen relations cultural and commercial. The agenda of the mission begins on Friday, Dec. 17, at 15.30, with the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the cities of Salvador and Sciacca, reinforcing the agreement signed in July 2001 Sister Cities. The meeting of Italian businessmen with the Bahia was scheduled for Promo - International Business Center of Bahia - and happens to 18h, at Casa D 'Italia, will be presented when the project "Culture Neighbor of Distant Earth," which focuses on the actual production of cooperatives for the production of Italian wine, extra virgin olive oil, fish, ceramics, oranges and other products typical Sicilian. The expectation of the Italian Consul in Bahia, Giovanni Pisanu, and the coordinator of the project "Culture Neighbor of Distant Earth," Salvatore Dimimo, is to "expand the friendly relations and thereby develop joint cultural projects and also conduct business. " Promo is also coordinating the visits of Italian businessmen to import companies from Bahia on Monday, April 20. The focus is to expand trade bilateral Bahia and Italy, which in 2008 was approximately $ 582 million, U.S. $ 492 million exports and U.S. $ 90 million worth of imports, resulting in a surplus of $ 402 million to Bahia. The main Bahia products were exported to Italy cellulose, copper, oil and hides and skins. Among the products imported by the Italian State are naphtha, polyurethane sheets, machinery and industrial equipment.

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Biodiesel in Brazil: current situation.

Sebben ambiziosa l'obiettivo iniziale di vincolare was 200mil agricoltori family to the "Program of biodiesel," the Brazilian federal government has recently found out that you can not even maintain what, revised, to arrive at least 100 thousand small farmers. At the end will only 82mila families, about 20 percent less than expected.

A biodiesel refinery

The news has learned that just when the Ministry of Energy began studying the possibility of increasing the addition of biodiesel to diesel fuel from the current 3 ` to 4 per cent already at the beginning with 2009. This would bring additional supply of 400 million liters of fuel per year.

The biodiesel program was created in 2005 with a focus on social inclusion. Small farmers should plant oil (such as the typical crops Mamona , Pinhão manso , sunflower and nabo ) on those industries, generating employment and income in rural reality. But the regional agriculture so far have not shown so receptive.

Among the reasons, the high cost of establishment of agricultural cooperatives, the final price a little competitive, but also technical difficulties, such as in the case of Mamon, viscose considered for the engines. In practice, as explained by experts in the field, biodiesel is currently produced by soybeans and tallow from animal large enterprises that use technology more than anything else in the place of family farming.

Besides the Ministry of Energy data are clear: 97 percent of biodiesel consumed in the country (1.2 billion liters per year) is produced from soya oil and sebum from animal giants Adm as industrial, granola, and Caramuru biocapital. While the oil as Mamon, Pinhão the manse and sunflower are not forthcoming, added together, the 1 per cent of the total.

Pinhão manso

Biodiesel is produced entirely by the state Petrobras purchased at auction by the National Agency of subsidized oil prices. Since the program were purchased 2.26 billion gallons. Petrobras has paid a total of 4.8 billion for real this volume at an average price of 2.13 real per liter.

According to specialists the program is satisfactory, since it meets the goals of production, but is far away from the "revolution in the sector 'boasted when it was launched. A new ingredient has been the fall in the price of soybeans in the world market, the effect of global economic crisis, which made the more attractive commodity for fuel. It is expected there will be no change in the medium term, while the government is now betting on Pinhão manse of which however there is still no technological domain.

The case of Bahia

Even companies that have invested in the production of biodiesel from family agriculture have changed course. It 's the case of Brasil Ecodiesel, which has built four industries in northeastern Brazil to produce fuel from oilseed crops.

Iraquara The refinery, a center about 500 km from Salvador, in the State of Bahia

The company has come to establish cooperatives of farmers as Juazeiro (Bahia), where a hundred families have planted Mamona to supply the unit Iraquara, also in Bahia. Today, these industries produce biodiesel from soybeans, they buy in the center-east of the country.

The project has been suspended. From the top of the company's explanation was that - in addition to the issues of quality and cost - the farmer is not taken off due to lack of commitment by the government. Farmers in the region have poor knowledge of the fact that type of cultivation, have no access to a bank account or to other forms of credit. Cooperatives were created, but too expensive for a company.

The problem does not occur only in the north-east of the country. Even Barbacena, City Hall in the State of Minas Gerais, Fusermann the company unveiled a biodiesel industry based on the cultivation of forrageiro nabo. Hundreds of local farmers have ventured into new, but the cost turned out to be absurd.

The harvest has not been purchased, and has been used for the upkeep of the animals. A reality quite different from that presented a couple of years earlier by enticing presentations government on Powerpoint, and that led to the sale of one liter of biodiesel.

Plant Mamona

Large companies that work with soy instead have much lower costs, and in this case would be in contradiction to the generous tax incentives to large companies through the certification of fuel granted by social Ministry of Agrarian Development.

Basically firms producing biodiesel using a minimum maturity of raw materials from family farmers are eligible for certification, and to make matters worse the controls in place are often subject to serious doubts. The volume of biodiesel sold and given the limited number of small farmers in the program, it becomes very difficult to believe in the validity of this certificate.

The program is certainly still far from realizing the economic and social inclusion as advertised until a couple of years ago. Considering the Brazilian agrarian landscape as a whole, one can see how the reality is often still a faded mirror of past centuries. Many farmers are still too many obstacles to development. Excessive taxation and lack of a viable land reform are still the ball at the foot of this important production sector in Brazil.

08/04/2009

Source: Musibrasil (Alberto Pisciotta)

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Did you know that in addition to geothermal systems, installed in certain parts of the world, dedicated to the exploitation of volcanic or geological anomalies there are more children are classified as "low enthalpy" relating to the use of subsoil as a reservoir to extract heat from the heat during the winter season and to whom to hand over the summer. Geothermal systems take advantage of domestic natural energy, clean and renewable, in the land captured by sensors buried, and multiplying with a heat pump for heating, for production hot water, and in summer for cooling a single macchina.Il system is applicable in any type of soil in any region of Italy, at any geographical location: sea, mountain, plain, hill, near the lake, city, country.

Operation:

The system works by using a simple circuit drawing heat into the ground and a heat pump. The circuit of heat transfer between building and ground is by means of an exchanger immersed in the soil. This exchanger consists of a tube forward and one return, placed in a vertical hole with a length generally between 70 and 120 m, drilled in the ground surrounding the house. The implementation of the trading system involves the insertion of polyethylene tubes connected with a U-fitting at their lower end. Inside the tubes, which form a closed circuit, is circulated a heat transfer fluid which is the physical medium through which heat exchange takes place. During a cycle of winter heating the liquid down to low temperatures (around zero) in one of two tubes, heated by the heat to go up in the soil. This simple collection system is called probe geotermica.Il only extract heat from the ground is enough to heat a building and the liquid must then be conveyed to a heat pump, which raises its temperature to be able to eventually transfer to the terminals: heaters, hot plates or panels radianti.Una heat pump operates similarly to a domestic refrigerator. In fact, as it removes heat from inside the refrigerator to reject the premise where the equipment is located, so the heat pump removes heat from the geothermal probe (after the latter took it from the ground) and provides the heating circuit. Heat pumps are recognized to be one of the most promising and economically viable technologies to reduce harmful emissions, including greenhouse gases (eg. CO2). The building has geothermal and appropriate terminals is thereby heated with free energy from the ground. The only cost to the user 's electricity needed to operate the heat pump. With direct experience in this technology is now well established and yields of the plants are growing. E 'was found that this solution results in a substantial savings over traditional systems in seasonal boiler and also cancels the emissions of polluting gases into the atmosphere. The installation of the geothermal probe is simple and does not require large areas and involves a visual impact and size zero in esterno.Misure and studies of real plants have shown that the heat taken from the subsoil is regenerated quickly and completely by geothermal energy, even after many years of operation. Sampling of geothermal energy is then a levy environmentally favorable energy sources. The almost constant temperature of soil throughout the year allow the heat pump to achieve high returns even in winter, electricity for less than a quarter of the geothermal energy that provides the heating system. This, in addition to lower operating costs, means using less energy resources more valuable and renewable energy. The efficiency of these devices is very high: you can turn 1 kW of electricity at about 4.5 kW of thermal energy. A geothermal system will pay for itself within a few years and, with a minimum expenditure in terms of electricity, it is possible to have heating, cooling and hot water all year. The advantage of geothermal systems is that they allow, through a single system, to provide housing for both heating and cooling environments. This represents a significant reduction not only on the costs of winter space heating but also cooling in the summer. Through cooling is also possible to reinstate the heat removed from the soil during the winter months, and then restore the conditions optimal for subsequent years of operation.