Brazil's Energy Mix
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- Created on: 17-01-13 14:31
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- Brazil's Energy Mix
- HEP = 29% (2010)
- Renewable
- Large river system
- Construction Jobs
- Unreliable rainfall
- Destructive to Rainforest
- Methane
- Affects whole river - sediment
- Methane
- Reduce risk of flooding
- Ecosystems affected e.g. zebra fish
- Still water = mosquitoes = malaria
- Danger of collapse
- Wind
- Renewable and clean
- Long coastline
- Highlands
- Trade winds and prevailing winds change direction seasonally = where?
- Small scale energy production
- Can still farm land
- Eyesore
- Relatively cheap to maintain
- Intermittent Wind
- Cannot store
- Solar
- Renweable and clean
- Bottom-up
- Caa reach rural areas
- Where?
- small scale energy production
- Tropical Climate
- Production of PV panels = environemntally damaging
- Oil = 39% (2010)
- Greenhouse Gases
- 40yrs left
- 7000m below ground, 5000m of rock = expensive to extract
- Large reserves
- Easy to transport
- Safer than nuclear
- Political, economic and military pressures
- Biofuel
- Food Prices Rise
- Bioproduct of sugar cane production
- Clean and renewable
- Fertilisers and pesticides = damaging to the environment
- Fuel Flex Cars
- Land needed
- Methane
- Infastructure
- Monocultures
- Cheap to produce
- Natural Gas = 7% (2010)
- Cleanest of fossil fuels
- Burns cleaner than petrol when used as a fuel
- Non renweable
- Contains large amounts of methane
- Good alternative to oil
- Demand is growing in Brazil
- Safe
- Political, economic and military pressures
- Nuclear - 1% (2010)
- Dangerous
- Lots of energy produced
- Radiactive material - storage and disposal
- Can leave vast areas uninhabitable
- HEP = 29% (2010)
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