The Rise of Brazil's New Energy

The concluded Olympic Games of Rio for the idea and theme of environmental protection, which from the side reflects the importance of sustainable development for Brazil. Beijing time on August 14 evening, Olympic women's marathon athletes ran late last year, just completed a Rio landmark - located in Guanabara Bay coast museum tomorrow .

Allegedly this building save energy efficiency 40% than traditional building : 9% of its power from solar battery panels, such as LiFePO4 battery pack above the roof; the cooling system through the abstraction of seawater to adjust the indoor temperature; around the exterior of the building reflecting pool to filter and extract from the Gulf the proximal end of the pier to the water emissions, while seawater get recycled, but also make people feel as if the museum afloat.

In fact, due to the severe impact of traditional energy resources and petroleum shortage crisis to the national economy, and Brazil from the 1970s began actively committed to the development and utilization of biofuels, wind and other new energy sources, and in nearly half a century of efforts later, it became the world's leading new energy power, it is useful in solar powered portable generator.

As the second largest producer and the world's largest exporter of ethanol, Brazil is the world's first bio-fuel to reach one of the sustainable countries, and use of bio-fuels is also a leader. Brazil is located in the tropical and sub-tropical, warm and rainy in most areas, the land is flat, fertile soil, very suitable for growing sugar cane. Thus, Brazil started very early to try sugar cane to produce ethanol fuel.

1930s, Brazil began to force to use of fuel containing ethanol, ethanol fuel is truly representative of the new energy development in the 1970s. In 1975, the Brazilian government launched the "national ethanol fuel program", to promote a certain percentage of gasoline and ethanol blended fuel. By 1984, Brazil's use of ethanol fuel new energy vehicles has reached 94.4% of the total automobile output.

"National Ethanol Program" through coordination and adjustment of federal policies to stimulate product supply and demand for new energy market, has taken direct subsidies, the provisions of various measures to quotas, government enterprises purchase and biofuels, price regulation and legislative intervention to serve create conditions for the promotion of bio-fuels. Brazilian law clearly stipulates that petrol gasoline-fueled cars used must be added 20-25% ethanol fuel.