A team of astronomers led by Jose Dias do Nascimento (Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte [DFTE, UFRN], Brazil) has found the farthest known solar twin in the Milky Way Galaxy— CoRoT Sol 1, which has about the same mass and chemical composition as the Sun
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2013-05-20 06:33:15
They said their bill would end imports of sugar cane ethanol from Brazil, which EPA allows, to meet an increasing portion of the RFS mandates; more properly align ethanol supplies with demand to mitigate blend wall impacts; and soften RFS's harmful effects ...
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2013-05-17 13:34:31
Prices for wind energy in Brazil, currently the lowest in the world, may rise at least 15 percent due to government policies designed to make the nation's power grid more reliable.
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2013-05-17 12:34:48
While Brazil said last month it will give tax breaks for mills in a bid to boost ethanol output, producers still directed 42% of all the cane processed to making sugar in the second half of April, up from 40.1% a year earlier, Unica data showed. Both sugar and ...
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2013-05-16 06:02:29
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the state-run oil producer, stands to profit the most from Brazilian measures to boost ethanol output as rising biofuel supplies reduce the need to sell imported gasoline at a loss.
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2013-05-15 08:23:21
French energy group GDF Suez is to sell a stake of 20 percent in a giant dam being built in Brazil to Japanese group Mitsui & Co to reduce debt, GDF Suez said on Monday.
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2013-05-13 06:54:25
The indigenous people of Brazil's most northerly region have been conducting a wind power trial, in a bid to convince the government that it's a realistic alternative to the country's controversial hydroelectric dams. Roraima is both the northernmost and least ...
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2013-05-13 06:25:14
The board of the National Social and Economic Development Bank (BNDES) has approved a loan of R$ 300.3 million to Bioflex Agroindustrial, a GranInvest group company, to build a second generation ethanol production unit. The plant, in São Miguel dos ...
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2013-05-10 18:22:42
Biofuel producer Abengoa Bioenergy from Spain, which has ethanol plants in Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil and the US, said all of its facilities were in operation as of April 2013. The company had idled several units in the US and the Netherlands amid ...
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2013-05-10 05:26:06
Brazil was one of the first countries in the world to get into renewable energy, in the form of ethanol in the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, and is now the world's leading producer. Now, 46 percent of Brazil's energy comes from renewable energy sources, ...
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2013-05-08 19:25:53
Brazil, the second-biggest producer of hydroelectricity, is seeking to increase the use of fossil fuels after the worst drought in 50 years depleted reservoirs, underscoring a limit to renewable energy.
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2013-05-08 11:34:48
Some $4.6 billion of clean energy investments were made in Latin America (excluding Brazil) in 2012, a whopping 127% increase from 2011, according to figures released in advance of the third annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Latin America ...
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2013-04-30 04:07:40
Brazil's alternative energy company, Cemig, tops the list of Environmental Tracking (ET) BRICS 300 Carbon Ranking.
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2013-04-29 23:15:25
New analysis released by Brazil's Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA) on April 16 showed that the average price of anhydrous ethanol sold in the 2012/2013 season by Brazilian sugar mills in the state of Sao Paulo stood at R$1.2915 ...
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2013-04-29 17:32:51
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