MRS Bulletin
- MRS Bulletin December 2010 35 : pp 960-961
- Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010
- DOI: 10.1557/mrs2010.700 (About DOI)
- Published online by Cambridge University Press: January 2011
Energy Quarterly
Energy Quarterly
Regional Initiative
Maintaining Brazil's ethanol fuel momentum
Arthur L. Robinson
The 1973–1974 First Energy Crisis was a cloud with a silver lining for Brazil. A severe negative balance of payments, as oil prices more than quadrupled, stimulated the birth of a bioethanol initiative based on fermented sugarcane, which vaulted the country into today's position as a world leader in the quest for renewable energy that promises to be green, affordable, and secure.
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