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Getting Serious About Biofuels (Science)

By Diogo Shimizu Lima ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

The author, Steven Koonin, points out several important issues for developing the biofuels and making them a globally viable solution to the energy issue. (As he well observes at the footnote, “Brazil is a singular counterexample, where favorable agricultural conditions and a flexible processing infrastructure allow the majority of the country’s road transport to be [...]

Azúcar en el depósito (La Vanguardia)

By Diogo Shimizu Lima ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Spanish original here (title: “Sugar in the deposit”); Portuguese translation here (title: Sugarcane and ethanol are becoming Brazil’s symbols”).
El país del carnaval, la samba, el fútbol, el café y la caipiriña tiene ya otro emblema por bandera: la caña de azúcar. Aunque los portugueses introdujeron este cultivo en el país hace ya más de 500 [...]

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