Issue 59
Jan.-Apr. 2007
CONTENTS
ENERGY DOSSIER
Energy and Environment in Brazil
José Goldemberg & Oswaldo Lucon
The Energetic Revolution
of the 21st Century
Ignacy Sachs
Hydroelectric, Thermal and Nuclear Generation
Luiz Pinguelli Rosa
Scenarios for an Efficient, Safe and Competitive Electric Sector
WWF-Brazil
Natural Gas: the Construction of a New Civilization
Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos et al.
Rational Use: the Concealed Energy Source
Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira
Hydroelectric energy
The Exploitation of the Hydroelectric Potential of the Amazon Region
José Galizia Tundisi
Hydraulic Resources: Social and
Environmental Issues
Carlos B. Vainer
Impasses and Controversies of Hydroelectricity
Célio Bermann
Biofuels
The Current Situation and Prospects for Ethanol
Isaias C. Macedo
Champions of Productivity: Pains and Fevers in São Paulo’s Sugar Cane Plantations
José Roberto Pereira Novaes
Biodiesel: a New Challenge
Guilherme Leite da Silva Dias
The Use of Wood as Energy
José Otavio Brito
Nuclear energy
Nuclear Energy over a 30-Year Scenario
Carlos Feu Alvim et al.
Control and Safety of Nuclear Reactors
Interview with Carley Martins
History of Nuclear Power in Sweden
Tomas Kåberger
The Catastrophe of Chernobyl Twenty Years Later
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century
Helmut Hirsch et al
If I Were a Congressman
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
ARTICLES
Origins of Life
Augusto Damineli & Daniel Santa Cruz Damineli
McCarthy era lessons for
Bush’s America
Robert Meeropol |
