About 44% of the total energy produced in Brazil comes from renewable sources.
Brazil was the world sugar cane’s ethanol production leader during long time. After the ethanol boom in the world in 2006, Brazil was also the largest exporter of it. Brazil produces around 17 billion liters of ethanol every year and exports about [...]
It is generally known that one of the major factors in the civilization development is the energy sources use. We basically use traditional energy resources, such as – oil or coal and natural gas. This causes great environmental pollution of our common home called Earth. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil are being merged [...]
The energy of the sun is a strong, not environmentally dangerous and not expensive energy source. It may be the best solution for those who wish their electricity bills were much smaller. People are even able to make the solar power system with their hands in order to cover all their electric needs at their [...]
The total amount of solar energy, which comes on the surface of our planet during a week, is larger than the energy of all oil, gas, coal and uranium resources in the world.
Nowadays, converting of solar energy into electricity is conducted with the help of photovoltaic cells – so called, solar cells. Material for [...]
The use of large areas of land for power plants with photocells of the first and second generation is needed because of the theoretical limitations in the spectrum transformation into the useful energy (about 30%). For example, it could take several tens of square kilometres for 1 GW power plant. For comparison, hydropower, with the [...]