Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'France'

Crisis Distillation to start in France and Italy

The French and Italian wine industries are being paid by the EU to distil wine into ethanol, rather than have the price of wine fall because of overproduction. It is a mad world my masters. Why can't they sell the...

Biodiesel trialled in aero engine

Biodiesel has been trialled in an aeroplane engine in France, and reported on the Green Car Congress, CFM a joint venture between Snecma and General Electric, carried out the test on one of its CFM56-7B engine using an ester-type biofuel...

French biofuel farmers to the rescue!

According to the BBC the President of France, Jacques Chirac says non-food crops should be at the heart of European biofuels policy and France should get around 10% of its fuel needs from Biofuels by 2015. But he doesn't want...