"Publicado em 19 de Março de 2013.
A economia verde “não é lucrativa, em Portugal, e ainda há muito a fazer” para que seja. Apesar da afirmação não augurar nada de bom para as empresas que actuam na área do desenvolvimento sustentável, mobilidade e energias renováveis, a frase pertence a uma empresária do sector, Cristina Montez.
Em 2008, Cristina e um sócio, Rui Fonte, lançaram a Wattmove, uma empresa com sede em Aveiro e especialista em mobilidade sustentável e eficiência energética. “O lema da empresa é a sustentabilidade. Pretendemos crescer de forma sustentável e promovendo serviços que promovam, cada vez mais, a qualidade de vida urbana”, explicou Cristina ao Green Savers.
Germany, that's among the "number ones" in Europe in developing alternative energies and applied technologies, is now focusing its interest on biogas, which it looks in optimistic way at as the most effective green source in order to reduce the CO2 emissions. (Remind the Union has fixed the 20% level by 2020). Among all biomass energy sources, the biogas – coming out from the anaerobic digestion of trash – is infact the most useful one, and the most respectful towards the environment. Turning part of the fields that compose the widest Germanic plain into plant for biogas would permit to obtain: new clean energies, the thermal one (by means of the combustion in boiler) and electric one (through cogeneration groups); and more, the Digestate – another “output” of digesters, which represents a very good organic phertylizer for cultivated fields. For completing this virtuous circle, the plant could then be fueled by the energy produced by biogas itself. Other very advantageous externalities deriving from biogas plants could be: creation of new jobs and revaluation of farmers' estates.
