Uploaded on 2017-03-27 by Suelen Artuso

1. What are the dominant fossil fuels used in your country? The fossil fuel that has predominant use in my country is oil. Among the fossil fuels, oil has a production of 122.8 million tons (almost 80% off all energy sources). The gas production comes next with 19.3 million tons. Coal has a national production of 3 million tons. We can observe that the difference of quantity produced has an extremely high variation among the three fuels. 2. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? More than half of the oil production in Brazil is used for transportation, 68.7 million tons, and the rest of the oil is almost equally divided for industry and other uses. Natural gas has the bulk of the production turned to the industry, then the use of natural gas has been applied in transportation, although the amount is almost 3 times lower than the application in the industry. Coal, however, uses all national production and imports almost exclusively in industry. 3. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that? Brazil is a tropical country and receives a lot of solar radiation because it has most of its territory near the equator. According to studies by the federal government's energy ministry, the country has a potential to generate solar energy power between 5,700 and 6,100 Wh / m² a day. The study also shows that the northern and northeastern regions of Brazil have the potential to generate wind energy estimated at 140,000 MW. Only with wind energy would it be possible to supply all the energy currently consumed in the country. However, the current production of this type of energy does not reach half of its potential. These two sources of energy, solar and wind, if they were more used, would drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels, and consequently the emission of CO2 in the atmosphere. To leverage the use of these energies, some government action would be needed to encourage its use, for example, by reducing taxes for those who would use these alternatives. For transportation, once again friso the importance of large investments in quality public transport to reduce the use of automobiles. In public transport, such as trains, subways and buses, vehicles should use only alternative energy sources.