| The project raises awareness on the upcoming production of biofuels in Europe. In the recent article ‘Analysis: Bioethanol trumps biodiesel say Europe's producers’ (Reuters July 5, 2010) it is reported that “cheaper, local ingredients make bioethanol more profitable and sustainable, than far more widely produced biodiesel in Europe.” As the EU has promised that “by 2020, 10% of transport fuels must come from renewable sources,” and considering the contradictory implications of this aim (‘Europe finds politics and biofuels don't mix’ by Pete Harrison, Reuters July 5, 2010), the proposal for this Solar Park seeks to investigate that critical debate –and produce biofuel- as a pilot park where not only the accurate production and implication of these two sources would be tested and compared, but would also become at the same time a ‘solar’ land-art linear park, placed on top of what used to be the Autostrada del Sole; a yellow ‘dashed-line’. |
