[NCLUG] Brazil Tech, was Green Power

[Michael Riversong]

It's way too easy for Americans to forget that Brazil is technologically advanced.  Since you're here, do you have any information on how Linux is being used there?

Also any comments you have on how their ethanol programs are doing would be of help.  We get some contradictory information on that here.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Yuri Csapo <ycsapo at mines.edu>
>Sent: Sep 15, 2008 12:47 PM
>To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group <nclug at nclug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Re: "Green" power
>
>To contribute with a piece of trivia: there's a plant in my home town 
>(São Paulo - Brazil) that does exactly that some of the time. It's used 
>for several things including flood control and to keep water levels 
>constant for hydroelectric generators downstream, but a large part of 
>its night cycle is spent pumping water upstream so it can get to a 
>steeper slope on the other side, increasing that particular river's 
>generating potential. It is also sometimes used to generate electricity 
>(because the pumps can act either as pumps or generators).
>
>Yuri
>
>

Michael Riversong

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