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Year III - No 16 September-October 1999 Main Page
End of
Modernity?
Equivalent Energy
and GNP
Evolution of the Vehicle Fleet in
Brazil
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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?Download
Brazilian Energy Balance 1999 |
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. |