Cuba tests biofuel vehicle successfully

[Judi Lynn]

Cuba tests biofuel vehicle successfully
New Delhi, Mon, 23 Jul 2012 NI Wire

A vehicle was tested with biofuel for the first time in Cuba by running an automobile for 1500 kms using biofuel produced from the jatropha plant, state-run media reported Sunday.

To carry on the test the part of first 400 litres of the biofuel produced by the plant were mixed in a ratio of 70:30 with diesel to ignite a 2007 Toyota Hilux, the head of the Applications Center for Sustainable Development, engineer Jose Sotolongo, said.

The biodiesel was produced using the oil of Jatropha curcas, which is an inedible angiosperm, at a factory that was opened a week earlier in the eastern province of Guantanamo.

The factory is build with a capacity of producing more than 100 tonnes per year of liquid biofuel.

More:
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/7/23/77-Cuba-tests-biofuel-vehicle-successfully.html

[flamingdem]

1. Sounds very interesting

I hope they get some major investment to carry this forward.

[TouchOfGray]

2. Major investment from whom? It's Cuba for cripes sake

Would invest your retirement account in a Cuban bio-fuel business?

Me neither.

[flamingdem]

3. China might

But it's true you have to be careful if the government controls the business, as certain European and Canadian businessmen have discovered