Author: Josmar VerilloPublisher:
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Category : Elasticity (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Energy-substitution in the Paper Industry in Brazil
Author: Josmar VerilloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elasticity (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Economics of Utilizing Bark and Forest Residues for Energy Substitution in the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry
Author: Aga M. RazviPublisher:
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Category : Paper industry
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries
Author: Suzana Tavares da SilvaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000034119
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book presents a comparative analysis of energy efficiency policies in developing countries. Although there is a vast amount of literature available about renewable energy policy and implementation in the developing world, energy efficiency tends to lack attention. This book fills this lacuna by examining the current state of the field and scope for future improvements. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Brazil, China and Chile, the authors use a comparative approach to examine the policies and programmes being implemented, looking at the existing legal frameworks and regulatory challenges. By showcasing stories of success, as well as barriers to energy efficiency, they highlight the opportunities for increased energy access and efficiency and demonstrate how these opportunities may directly impact on climate change mitigation. This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and practitioners with an interest in energy policy and efficiency, climate change and international development.
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy
Author: Frank Rosillo-CallePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482268183
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. Brazil, uniquely, has a recent history of large-scale biomass industrial uses that makes it a specially important test-bed both for the development of biomass technology and its utilisation, and for understanding h
Petroleum, Alcohol, and Energy Substitution in Brazil
Author: Dan BillerPublisher:
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Category : Alcohol as fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
As in other Latin American nations, the petroleum industry has always been surrounded by controversy in Brazil. Issues related to exploration, exploitation and import of crude have received special attention by Brazilian decision makers. In the past decade, an additional relevant issue was brought into play by the oil crisis. An import substitution program for energy was implemented by the development of alternative indigenous energy sources. Among these sources, sugar-cane was viewed as a reliable renewable resource for the production of fuel-alcohol and very recently of electricity. Brazil engaged in a gigantic program of fuel substitution, which is now facing severe problems due to the fall of petroleum prices. The objective of this dissertation is the analysis of the recent energy import substitution program in Brazil, specifically concentrating on microeconomic and environmental aspects of fuel substitution. The dissertation is divided into six chapters. Chapter one introduces the problems. Chapters two and three discuss the development of the Brazilian petroleum industry and the alcohol program, respectively. Chapter four presents a microeconomic dynamic optimization model of fuel substitution planning. Chapter five examines the Program's environmental issues, its possibilities for producing other sources of energy besides alcohol, and the importance of sugar prices in the recent alcohol crisis. Chapter six concludes the dissertation analyzing the relation between alcohol producers and the petroleum monopoly, with particular attention paid to possibilities of privatization measures in the fuel industry for automobiles. The dissertation addresses several important issues not commonly discussed in the literature of natural resource economics. Additionally, with the microeconomic and environmental analysis of urgent questions pertaining the energy substitution effort in Brazil, it contributes a different approach to policy making in this area. In view of the recent fall in international petroleum prices, adjustments in energy substitution programs are important. Nevertheless, decision makers should attempt to avoid myopic policies in energy development, due to their possible harmful environmental consequences and the exhaustible nature of petroleum.
Sustainable Freedom?
Author: Edùardo A PlatonPublisher: Viseu
ISBN: 6525458730
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book, conceived in the 2010s, demonstrates that the thesis of renewable energy prevailed. Despite still having a long way to go, after the epic battle between the forces of maintaining fossil fuels in the energy market in Brazil and in the U.S. and the favorable winds of energy and renewable energy infrastructure projects, renewables advanced quickly and are here to stay, whether we like it or not. Renewable energy developments that have taken place in the past decade (from 2010 when this book was conceived to 2020) shaped the way we humans function in society. In this book, the author highlights the beginning of the history of the oil industry in Brazil and oil in the US and the bold and baby steps towards renewables. The rest is history validating itself in the daily life of the third decade of the 21st century until we reach the massive scale of the electric vehicle industry already represented by Tesla, Li Auto, NIO, Lucid Motors, Rivian, among others. Indeed, we see a great change and orientation towards sustainability. In this case, the direction became more important than the speed of implementation of the green, global, diversified future. The question in the current chapter of humanity is whether the concept of sustainability will be expanded to reach the political dimension through the current weakening of Western democracies in the modern world facing massive challenges such as global pandemics, the emergence and rapid expansion in all economic sectors and industries of artificial intelligence, robotics, not to mention the threats of nuclear wars and cyber-attacks between nations and global environmental devastation.
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