Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy
Subtitle: The Example of Brazil
Contributors: Frank Rosillo-Calle (Editor); Sergio V. Bajay (Editor); Harry Rothman (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: March 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780748408849
Subjects: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology; Management of land & natural resources; Plant ecology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Industrial applications; Brazil; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Natural Resources; Power Resources; Wildlife; Science / Environmental Science; Biomass Energy; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical
First sentence: Biomass currently supplies about one-third of the developing countries' energy-varying from about 90 per cent in countries like Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, to 45 per cent in India, 30 per cent in China and Brazil, and 10-15 per cent in Mexico and South Africa.