Cuba boosts bio-mass as renewable source of energy
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| Published on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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GUANTANAMO, Cuba (ACN) -- Cuba, with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, known in Latin America with the acronym COSUDE, is investing in a research program named "Bio-Mass as a Renewable Source of Energy for the countryside".
The Cuban provinces to benefit the most from this initiative, to conclude in 2011, are eastern Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, though it will later be extended to the central and western Cuban regions.
Bio-mass is the main energy renewable source in Cuba, and its definition is organic matter originated in a biological process, spontaneous or caused, which can be used as an energy source.
Almost 3 million dollars have been invested in this project, whose main goal is to boost the production of biogas, a fuel obtained from the decomposition of organic matter when there is lack of oxygen in the air.
In statements to ACN news agency José Sotolongo MSc, founder of the Application of Technologies for a Sustainable Development Center, said that they plan to obtain this bio fuel by processing the waste from coffee beans, rice and forestry residues.
This entity is one of the participants in the Project, which also includes de Indio Hatuey Experimental Station, from Matanzas University, the Sugar Cane Research Institute, and the Science and Technology's Agency's Priority Projects Group.
This last entity belongs to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, which is the Cuban party in this project and which gives continuity to a scientific workshop that ended today in this easternmost province. | | | | Reads : 532 | | | |
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