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Guest post by Shannon Combs Despite the fact that silicon is the market common semiconductor in many electric units, which includes the solar cells that solar panels utilize to convert sun rays into electricity, it is not really the most efficient component readily available. For...

Brazil seeks cause of m...

SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazil on Wednesday sought to uncover the cause of a massive and mysterious blackout overnight, amid concerns of energy supply stability for the 2016 Olympic host nation. The outage, which hit at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday) and lasted four to six hours,...

Largest biodiesel plant...

Refinery will start to operating in 2010. Main raw materials are soybean and sunflower. A Portuguese consortium is preparing to build the largest biodiesel plant in the country, which will operate with 90% of its raw material – mainly soybean and sunflower – from Brazil,...

Ethanol from Brazil is ...

Who is helping the world? Oxfam, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to combating poverty in the world, believes the Brazilian ethanol is the most favorable biofuel in the world in terms of emissions of polluting gases and cost. The report says that the replacement of traditional...

Production of ethanol i...

The Union of Industry Sugar cane (Unica) reported this Monday that until the 1st day of June, the production of ethanol grew 6.15%, however the entity is reviewing the forecasts of the 2008/09 season because of the possibility of rain in the region of harvest in the coming months. On the...

Brazil found third bigg...

National Petroleum Agency(NPA) has said that with this new found Brazil is about to surpass U.S in oil reserve, currently according to the US Energy Department, Brazil’s existing proven oil reserves total 11.8 billion barrels, while the US holds 21.8 billion. The new discovery can...