Brazil's Sweet Revolution

[merlecasey13]

This video went viral on Malaysia

[KadrunkoMaluco]

It is undeniable foreign interest in alternative sources of energy. It is up to the Brazilian authorities to maintain these valuable sources of energy, regulating prices and levels of efficiency throughout the supply chain.

Many desperately want access to these sources, but ... Now is our time!

[oregonmeds]

I thought brazil sounded impressive when I learned of their success with ethanol, but now that I've seen this and how workers harvesting the sugar cane work 10 hour days 6 days a week I'm not so impressed. You should cut their hours in half, do two shifts, and double their pay. Show the rest of the world that it's not only possible to be self sufficient and use renewable energy but to do it on a living wage and with good working conditions and then you'll actually have something to be proud of.

[am4ur1c10]

@LadyCaricata "Oi povo do youtube, eu sou um ateu querendo aparecer"

'Meu Deus' é uma força de expressão... Cresce vai ¬¬'.

[MrAlexdesousa]

Very good..

[jvarela965]

My grandfather ran his Packard in Cuba during WWII on Ethanol

[tochabio]

@riomarcos What do u think about going to the sugar cane fields and work over there then? from sun to sun, breathing sugar cane coal and have a wage of R$ 9,00 (U$ 4,00) per ton? Life expectancy of sugar cane workers are reduced to 35 years my friend. Isn´t this slavery ? so what is this ? Sorry, it´s not acceptable. No more lies to me.

[Benzidrine]

petrol is much better for your engine long term lol the money you save is lost from the damage done to fuel lines and engines.

[truthisouttheir]

@Benzidrine site your sources please.

[gabrielm08]

@riomarcos not true, The Amazon rain forest is not the only one in Brazil. From Northeast to South, another giant one used to exist there: the "Mata Atlantica", and it is where ALL the sugar plantations grow. Not only that, but is the oldest form of cuel explotation of people and enviroment, together with coffee.

The cost here are not that high, we just want to do what the big countrys do: do our dirty things far away ;D

[tochabio]

country, taking away all the money from OUR COMMODITIES, Produced in OUR LAND. Wasting such a LIVE LAND, Paying so low to it´s workers in a slavery manner, Not producing FOOD To those who don´t Have a MEAN to achieve such a "SHOULbE" guarantee, alimentation. It´s WRONG And I´m TIRED of this SIck SHIT.

[truthisouttheir]

@tochabio complete thoughts and or sentences expressed? zero

[tochabio]

@truthisouttheir Hey man, I´m sorry if you´re so worried about being the owner of thruth always. I didn´t mean to do u no harm into your thoughts. Second, I´m a biology teacher, I´m not a stupid common sense media consumer, that accepts the given reality as normal. By analyzing the perceived reality of majority, and understanding it´s meaning in a larger time scope, I can´t stay in silence. And looking at brazil, 500 year after the european, and we still waste our tropical lands on sugar cane...

[truthisouttheir]

@tochabio

i have a biology degree and still think you need help forming complete sentences and expressing your ideas. proof read buddy.

"By analyzing the perceived reality of majority, and understanding it´s meaning in a larger time scope, I can´t stay in silence. And looking at brazil, 500 year after the european, and we still waste our tropical lands on sugar cane." wtf mate?

i don't own the truth but i seek it.

we should re-investigate 9/11

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[truthisouttheir]

@tochabio i just realized your from brazil lol. i am guessing english isn't your first language and don't mean to pick on you... keep practicing your english is coming along.

i study other languages on this website that you might find helpful.

livemocha(dot)com

sorry to pick on you again i just get so sick of living around so many fools that really can't express ideas or think for themselves here in america.

[tochabio]

@truthisouttheir Don´t worry about it man. Actually, there is no need for condescending. I lived in california for one year about 7 years ago, my english is doing fine, maybe a little bit rusty though. And I was on a hurry when I wrote this messages, so I didn´t spent that much time on writing them. And keep on the job to get people informed, so they don´t be just headlines big public, superficial and empty. It´s a long way.... but eventually we can advance on America´s (r)evolution.

[tochabio]

Hello guys, I´m sorry but I´m also from brazil and I´ll tell u that every single word this lady said is a LIE. U guys don´t know what it feels to be from a coutry-continent in the size of Brazil, with all this natural resources, with a possibility of production of biomass in a higher scale than ever seen in any other country in the world. And yet, all we see in brazilian lands, because of this always faking media. is a HUGE SUGAR CANE CROP land, used by a corporation of any other

[rb7magnetico]

There is no doubt on ethanol as the 1st answer to renewable fuels. Brazil is in the right place at the right time with the right mind. Brazil has some nations in a hypothetical "headlock". What is very brazilian is the Flex Fuel...that in it self is a brazilian philosophy...freedom of choice...order===progress

[mazzaropi189]

Brazil is fuck am Brazilian and I am proud of our scientists who are very copetentes vcs americanizinhosd of shit and go and be there if fude Pagano pal purchasing our findings kkkkkkkkkk

[am4ur1c10]

Voce traduziu isso em algum tradutor...Isso é obvio.

Mas me recuso a acreditar que voce tentou traduzir "pagano pal"...

Meu Deus...

[marcelim]

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Esse youtube me diverte...

[SemperFinellis]

2050

-Economic Superpowers: China, USA, India, Brazil, México.

-Military Superpowers: USA, China, Russia, Brazil, India.

-Energy Superpowers: Russia, Brazil, USA, China (5 I'm not sure)

-Tecnological Superpowers: USA, Japan, Germany, China, Brazil.

-Producing Superpowers: Brazil, Russia.

-Manufacturing Superpowers: China, India.

-Global Powers: China, USA, Brazil, Russia, India.

I think.

[akumie]

"-Tecnological Superpowers: USA, Japan, Germany, China, Brazil."

Are u mad?, Japan is way more advanced..all usa does it upgrade killing weapons

[thaiking562]

yu have to state these are estimates!! who knows another war can break out and potentially end one country or make another unaccepted one riselike South Africa or Mexico

[paranhosfabiogmail]

All brazilian cars are nowadays manufactured for both fuels. Sugar cane is on the rise like never before.

[akumie]

woho Brazil has less polution but cuts down rainforest to plant sugar canes

[SemperFinellis]

You see the date???? 2050!!!!! not present!!!!!

[marcelim]

Where you read it?

The area used to plant cane is just 0,5% of the Brazil total area.

And other vegetables can be used to produce ethanol, as manioc.

[akumie]

I don`t think u can make over 50% of Brazils cars use etanol by just using 0.5% of the tropic forest area

[ferdyss85]

Actually we already do that.

[dbctv]

Yes, it's the true, because, ethanol is almost all planted in Sao Paulo state. 2000Km far from Amazon.

[dbctv]

Wrong. 95% of ethanol production is located in Sao Paulo state, 2000 Km far from the rain forest.

Google it.

[rafaelsouzasp79]

Stupid moron, sugarcane used in ethanol production is planted in São Paulo state. Some 2,000 to 3,000 kilometers far from Amazon.

This IS something that is actually helping avoid deforestation and flooding for hydrelectrical power plants.

[akumie]

so ur saying that by planting away from the amazon can get fuel for 50% of all cars? hm... and I thought brazil had so much forest that in order to plant enought for 50% of all cars u need atleast to destory some forest

[rafaelsouzasp79]

Yes, exactly.

Brazil has lots of forest, indeed, but they are concentrated in northern part of Brazil, specially Amazon.

Sugar cane have better conditions of growing in southern Brazil, especially São Paulo state, where we have a type of land called "terra roxa", which fits very well this culture.

So, it's true, we can produce a lot in very small space and it's not necessary to drop even one Amazon tree for doing so. And we have space to expand it a without harm to any forest.

[ELFELICIANO]

They arent destroying the forest because of sugarcane. Is it so hard to explain that noone will plant sugarcane where theres no roads, no ports, its like too far from the sea. Great part of the sugarcane comes from states like Sao Paulo. Please take your time to google it and see for yourself. This forest will be all gone with or without sugarcane.

[ELFELICIANO]

Its not true. The area for agriculture in Brazil is vast and they can increase it without deforestation. Deforestation is always gonna exist though with or without sugarcane.

[greyflcn]

Thats because the tropics get all the rain the want, sunlight year-round, and twice as much sunlight per year.

Catch with Brazil is that they make only a tiny portion of their fuel comes from ethanol.

Almost all of it comes from Oil drilled off the Brazilian coast.

greyfalcon. net/ brazil

greyfalcon. net/ brazil2

[ELFELICIANO]

That's not true . Our gasoline already has a mix of 25% of ethanol since long time ago, pretty much before this world buzz on brazilian ethanol.

[greyflcn]

Correct.

However gasoline+ethanol only makes up about 26% of Brazilian transport fuel.

And the ethanol fraction, only about 13%

And then if you cut that down for it's 30% less mileage, we're closer to 10% equivalent.

Then you can also tie in the newer oil findings.

greyfalcon. net/ brazil3

[amizuki]

Wrong. Gasoline plus ethanol make up 50% of transportation fuel and diesel is the other half. In fact ethanol has just surpassed gasoline by volume, but admittedly not by energy content.

These figures deceptively assume all petroleum is used for transport when in reality, half of it is used for materials.

[greyflcn]

==Wrong. Gasoline plus ethanol make up 50% of transportation fuel and diesel is the other half.==

Care to quote your source?

Here's mine

i-r-squared. blogspot. com/2007/06/letter-to-cnn-on-i­naccuracies.html

[amizuki]

Problem with this data is that it is over two years old. In 2007 Brazil consumed 16.6 bn liters of ethanol and 18 bn of Gasoline. This year, the rate is of 19bn ethanol and 18 of gasoline. In 2006 (when this data probably came from, that figure was 13.8 for ethanol.  The picture is very different now.

[rafaelsouzasp79]

Oh... a blog... man...

Just stop being jealous of Brazilian development. This is something is gonna help the fucking environment for all countries. Stop being such a dumb ass.

[greyflcn]

No, I'm just scared of people ignoring the laws of physics, and the physical scarcity of potassium and phosphorous fertilizer.

greyfalcon. net/ biolimits.png (Using extremely optimistic calculations)

Also, as for references, would you prefer Petrobras?

greyfalcon. net/ brazil.png

[rafaelsouzasp79]

No, you're just an ignorant that knows nothing about my country, laws of physics and ethanol.

Leave that to the ones who know it. I mean Brazilian, of course.

[greyflcn]

Who cares about your country.

The laws of physics don't change when you cross the border. And neither does the fact that fertilizers are an international commodity.

And those two facts won't change merely because you "disagree" with them.

[rafaelsouzasp79]

The world cares about my country. Who is lending money to your country, by the way, to avoi total bankrup ;)

Facts? What facts? Fertilizers? Shut up

[StewartBrasil]

hahhaha, ye men , they are jealous!!!!!

[JohnWingWing]

Transportation is 67 percent of are oil use.

[ELFELICIANO]

Even b4 this buzz with ethanol, you could see in every pump a sign saying that the gasoline of that pump contained 25% of ethanol. This was because of a brazilian law. I think this law was made either in the middle or late 90's. I think that the information in that website is from the period before this law. (dont worry about these guys saying ur jealous, its brazilian's endless low self esteem).

[greyflcn]

Actually the info is from 2007

[ELFELICIANO]

You may be right. I just realised that Brazil has the second largest air fleet in the world and the third biggest air traffic also. There may not have any mix in the gas for airplanes, making those graphics real for me now.

[greyflcn]

Actually, it has more to do with the fact that nearly half of Brazil's transportation fuel is straight Diesel. And Brazil also has one of the worlds largest natural gas car fleets.

[JohnWingWing]

it says less than 10 percent ethanol on the pumps here in florida

[ZwolfZki]

...that's it, I'm learning Portuguese!