Economy
& Energy
Year IX -No 48:
February - March 2005
ISSN 1518-2932
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Coming into Force of the Kyoto Protocol Estimation of Carbon Content in Dry Natural Gas New: No 48 in adobe pdf for download
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Editorial: Coming into Force of the Kyoto Protocol This issue is entirely dedicated to the analysis of carbon emissions into the atmosphere that, as known, is the main cause of global warming. Coincidentally, it comes out together with the Kyoto Protocol that came into effect on February 16, 2005, aiming at controlling the Earth warming caused by the greenhouse effect. Text for Discussion: The difference between the high and low heat values permits to estimate the water produced in the combustion process. As a consequence, one can estimate the hydrogen and carbon content in hydrocarbons. The methodology is tested on natural gas. Article: The Carbon Balance Project, executed by e&e NGO, aims at supplying a tool for calculating the carbon balance in the production, transformation and use of energy in Brazil and the carbon contained in the emissions of the greenhouse effect gases, and its dissemination in electronic form and in written reports. The objective is to detect – by simultaneously applying the Top-Down and Bottom-Up techniques – the possible omissions in one of the two approaches. The final report, produced under an agreement with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), is concentrated on the elaboration of the methodology and diagnosis of divergences found; however it already permits to obtain reliable results for the period 1970 – 2002. The first step is to use the Top-Down model extension on all lines of the energy balance in what might be called the Top-Bottom process whose results are presented New: |
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