Economy &Energy
Year III - No 16 September-October 1999 Main Page |
End of Modernity? Carlos Feu Alvim By endorsing recently the suspension for one year the agreement concerning self-service in gas stations, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has symbolically decreed the end of modernity as a governmental dogma. Is it a new direction for the Government adopted by someone who, like the Poet, is tired of being modern or is it an isolated act? |
Equivalent Energy and GNPEconomic activity and energy use have an obvious correlation. In order to express this correlation in global terms various approaches have been adopted. In the present work it is suggested the use of equivalent energy to study this correlation. The results are presented for countries having different development levels and they are compared to results obtained using primary, final and useful energy. Evolution of the Vehicle Fleet in Brazil The evolution of the Brazilian vehicle fleet is reproduced from data supplied by DENATRAN regarding sales and age, for 1997. From sales data, a scraping function is adjusted in order to reproduce the 1997 values. |
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