GOD IS BRAZILIAN Energy to Burn

Brazilian Energetic Matrix Source: MME (2006)

Natural Resources Self suficient in oil and gas – recent discovery off shore Ethanol – long history of growing sugar cane Hydropower capacity – Amazon basin Solar and wind power Uranium

The Challenge Administer the abundance with no harm to the environment Sub salt – 80 billions of barrels – expensive to get

Late in the game México and Venezuela have a 20 year old export history Fifteenth’s larger producer

How it started Exploitable field found in bahia in the late 1930s Brazil still imported 93% by that time “The Oil Is Ours” Petrobras – Brazil’s largest company – 76,000 employees 1974 – start of end of monopoly (1997) 2006 – self sufficiency

Petrobras – a chapter of its own Political influence

Natural Gas Petrobras controls 90% of the reserves Exploration in the amazon region

Ethanol Sugarcane – Produced for 500 years 8 units of enegy per unit to process 2 units of enegy per unit to process Sugar Cane Ethanol from Corn

Ethanol Relation to the Yom Kippur War in 1973 Pro alcool lauched in 1975 Generous subsidies to sugar producers Incentives for automobile manufacturers 1990s – surge on international sugar prices Flex cars Exporting?

Biodiesel Mamona - castor bean

Hydropower Reneable and abundant Low cost No innovative technologies