Tuesday, September 04, 2007

BRAZIL ETHANOL MARKET SURVEY PHOTOLOG 1


Picture 1: Swimming in the huge Balbina hydroelectric dam reservoir, 100 km northeast of Manaus, deep in the Amazon forest.

Picture 2: Dead trees from when the reservoir was created in the 1980s. The Brazilian government is planning two new dams on another river in a nearby state.

From April to September 2007, I traveled around Brazil comparing the Brazilian and American biofuels markets. In August I was joined by Tom MacDonald, senior alcohol fuels specialist with the California Energy Commission. All photos shown on Ethablog were taken during that time.

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