Today we had free Brazilian breakfast! I had papaya for the first time and it tasted surprisingly neutral. The coffee here is a lot better than America. As soon as breakfast was over we traveled to the Tractebel Energia. They burn fossil fuels for energy to sustain Brazilian electricity. Because Brazil is so heavily dependent on wind and hydroelectricity, when there is a drought or no wind there needs to be a back up energy source. Tractebel Energia provides this alternate resource.
They plan on expanding in coming years and try to be as green as possible when burning coal. They create music programs for the community as well as replanting parts of the forest that were lost due to deforestation. By getting involved in the Brazilian community by lessening their carbon footprint, Tractebel reverses some of the coal pollution damage done. All of their technology was fairly old, too. Only the monitors seemed to be from the 2000s. When we got there, there was an error blinking on the screen. But we were told to ignore it and it happens because the coal is impure or "dusty", so it messes with the system and it happens all the time. They said because of all of the coal dust, only 40% of the coal burned is used for energy.
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