Alcohol in Brazil is not only used to prepare Caipirinhas and Mojitos (Brazilian traditional drinks) but also, we take advantage from it and use as a sustainable energy.

Brazil has grown sugar cane for 500 years and it is by far the world’s biggest exporter of it. The country exports 70% of its sugar production and 75% of its ethanol output is still sold at home.

Biofuels, mainly derived from sugar, are Brazil’s most important source of energy after oil. The ethanol is blended with gasoline and used as an automobile fuel in countries such as Brazil, USA, EU, Mexico, India, Argentina, Colombia and recently Japan.

Specialists say that the ethanol market will grow and the sugar industry can triple its electricity co-generation capacity 15.000mw (around 27% of Brazil’s demand today) from its present acreage of cane. Until a world ethanol market takes off, Brazil’s producers will stay uncomfortably dependent on domestic sales and on Petrobras (the national oil giant). The company is both their biggest customer (because it buys ethanol to mix with petrol) and their top competitor (because its petrol competes with all-ethanol biofuels). It is also the fourth-biggest ethanol producer itself.

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According to the graph, Brazil can be the word’s model of sustainable energy, reducing the carbon gas emission which is responsible for the Global warming and climate change, caused from human and industry activities.

In Australia cane industry produces 32-35 million tons of cane per year, the country is the second biggest sugar producer in the word, 80% of the production is exported overseas… What are they waiting for to make it useful inside the country, beneficing the people here!?

 

 

Sources:

o Energy in Brazil, Ethanol's mid-life crisis, September 2nd 2010. < http://www.economist.com/node/16952914>

o Ethanol in Australia,