29th and 31st of July
The news have arrived in Castilla-La Mancha, homeland
of Francisco's parents, native of Los Cortijos, a small
village in the province of Ciudad Real.
The TV Station of Castilla-La Mancha convokes us to
make a report for its programme CLM en Vivo, on 31st of
July. On 29th July Fran is in Madrid, I am in León. On 30th
I arrive in Madrid and pick up him. Next day we are in
Los Cortijos, to make ready the tv programme.
The reporter Teresa Rodríguez and her cameraman do a
wonderful work.
After that, Castilla-La Mancha television make us a
second report for a news programme.
When we were coming back Madrid, we were very
surprised to receive another telephone call from TV-CLM
informative services again.They were very interesting in
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doing us another report to include it in that day's news. So
we come back Los Cortijos. This report is shorter and it's
focused mainly on the novel character of the ecological
fuel (known in Spain as Eco-combustible-FA from that
moment).
We come back the Spanish Capital again. During this trip,
more relaxed after the pressure provoked by the
interviews, started a cheerful talk.
- Francisco. How did you come to mind the idea that
from organic residues of rubbish could be obtained
this product? – I ask kim with a curiosity that until
that moment I hadn't had.
- It happened precisely in Los Cortijos, during my
youth. I had got a motorbike and the nearest petrolstation
wasn't near enough to arrive at it with fuel in
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the motorbike deposit. Perhaps by this reason,
unconsciously, I intented to find a home made fuel to
solve my problem.
- And, what did you do? Because, wouldn't you think
that the same as food is our carburant you could made
a kind of pap for you motorbike? – I asked him
ironically, using an easy joke.
- No, no. I was only a boy but I wasn't silly. I think
some important discoveries for the humankind have
appeared by chance or simple mistakes. The truth is
that when I was walking by the river, I had often seen
a light layer whitch seemed a strange kind of oil that
was produced in backwaters and immobilized waters.
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