Biofuels: are they the solution?

The thematic axes program is an endeavor of the Universidade de Sao Paulo, started in the present year and has the aim to provide institutional responses of the major university in Latin America in 11 important themes: Agriculture, Inequality, Democracy, Cities, Culture & Art, Education, Economy, Energy, Industry, Environment and Health, in view of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

I am included in the thematic axis Energy and I am there mainly to represent Nuclear Energy, last Thursday, however, I attended another action of the group, the workshop which had the same title as the one I used in this post, just in the Portuguese language.

In this workshop we received Prof. Plinio Nastari and Dr. Antonio Stuchi to talk about Biofuels. Prof. Nastari, among others, is professor at Harvard and Dr Stuchi works at Raizen, one of the leading producers…