CLIMBING MOUNT TERAWATT
Silva, Cylon Gonçalves da
Resumo:
In this book, the reader will find an extensive and rather complete compendium on the scientific, technical, social and economic challenges and opportunities for Brazilian sugarcane bioethanol, written by experts on the subject. This chapter, by a non-expert, is aimed at those readers who may still be asking themselves, but why sugarcane bioethanol? But, first, let us learn about Mount Terawatt. It is no use searching in the old school Atlas or in Google Earth. Mount Terawatt (or simply TW) does not correspond to any geographical or geological landmark on the surface of our planet. It may still come to grace some mountain in a yet to be discovered planet, like those being discovered every day now, in which a small fraction of Mankind may seek refuge and a new start, far away from our old rock, eons from now. Mount Terawatt, for the moment, is simply one trillion (ten to the power twelve, one million million) Watts, a convenient unit to measure the amount of energy used by humans every second, because otherwise we would have to use very large numbers. (One Watt equals one joule per second, roughly one thousandth of a BTU per second.)
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DOI: 10.5151/9788521208228-SUGARCANEBIOETHANOL_7
Referências bibliográficas
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Como citar:
SILVA, Cylon Gonçalves da; "CLIMBING MOUNT TERAWATT", p. 35-40. Sugarcane bioethanol — R&D for Productivity and Sustainability. São Paulo: Blucher, None.
ISBN: 9788521208228, DOI 10.5151/9788521208228-SUGARCANEBIOETHANOL_7