Denmark's One Straw Revolution
alarmClock Nov 20 09Masanobu Fukuoka would have been proud of this. This is indeed an "one-straw revolution" towards a greener planet. Denmark based DONG Energy has taken a big step in meeting the carbon emission challenge facing the transport sector by producing ethanol on the basis of straw. This process to be streamlined in one of the world's first and largest bio-ethanol plants at Kalundborg in Denmark which was inaugurated by His Royal Highness Prince Joachim, along with Fritz H. Schur, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DONG Energy and Anders Eldrup, Chief Executive Officer of DONG Energy. Torkil Bentzen, Chairman of the EUPD-program under the Danish Energy Agency and Kyriakos Maniatis, a representative from the EU Commission, both providing financial support to the plant, also attended the inauguration. Full story...
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