Today we went to fazenda columbari to look at their biofuel energy! They used the scat of the cows into biofuel by taking the poop and extracting the methane gas to power a generator. Although the idea seemed good, the animals were not very happy. You could smell the sadness in their poop, they didn't eat fresh grass but rather cotton seeds that were mostly likely laced with hormones and medication. They never got to go to the fields as the poop needed to be contained in a specific place in order to be used by the generator. The poop is kept in a containment center for 32 hours so the fermentation process can create the biofuel!
Then we went to the itaipu dam. It's owned by both Paraguay and Brazil. They split maintenance and profits exactly down the middle. Using gravity, the water is rushed down several turbines with a fall of 90 meters. This fall generated at most 98,630 GWh in 2013 breaking a world record! It was awesome to see the turbines, they are a lot bigger than I expected.
Then we went to a Buddhist temple, and there was a Buddhist monk there. He only ate one meal a day for 15 years and he relies on the charity of others for his clothes, food and shelter. He hasn't touched money in over 10 years! The temple was a beautiful, peaceful place.
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