With Rising Electricity Bills, More Brazilians Seek Solar Energy; Glass That Generates Electricity Is a New Alternative

Written by Fabio Lucas Carvalho Published on 26/09/2021 at 16:27 Updated on 26/09/2021 at 16:28

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High Electricity Bills Force Brazilians to Seek Other Alternatives; Solar Energy Is Becoming an Increasingly Attractive Option

According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), only between June and August, electricity bills rose three times faster than inflation. With the constant increase in electricity bills in recent months, solar energy is increasingly gaining market.

According to the National Institute of Clean and Renewable Energy, the search for solar energy has been increasing in recent months. In addition to drastically reducing monthly electricity expenses, energy generation from solar panels also helps the environment.

Solar Glasses Are a New Alternative

In a not so distant future, most bus stops, building facades, and houses are expected to have glasses with the capacity to generate solar energy. Fábio Persio, sales supervisor at PKO Brasil, told CNN Brasil about the advantages of solar glass for energy generation: “You wouldn’t be able to have a solar panel on a building facade, like covering a roof. The glass allows you to explore the largest area of the building. Besides energy efficiency, it generates even more than the building could consume,” he said.

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Glasses capable of generating energy can be made in various colors and sizes, and can be used in different locations, such as doors, windows, coverings, etc. Persio claims that despite being three times more expensive than regular glass, the use of this technology can result in an 80% savings on electricity bills per year.

“Photovoltaic glass not only has the capacity to generate energy, but it also prevents too much heat from entering the environment, because part of the heat will remain in the panel to generate that energy. It will also allow natural light entry. So the owner won’t spend on artificial lighting,” he explained.

Another alternative is Eternit’s solar tiles. The company already sells the product; however, sales occur only by order. The solar tiles are made of concrete and contain photovoltaic cells.

Environment - electricity bill - energy — ***Image of Eternit’s solar tiles. Image: Eternit***

According to Luiz Lopes, development manager at Eternit, solar tiles can be even cheaper than conventional solar panels.

With Rising Electricity Bills, More Brazilians Seek Solar Energy; Glass That Generates Electricity Is a New Alternative

High Electricity Bills Force Brazilians to Seek Other Alternatives; Solar Energy Is Becoming an Increasingly Attractive Option

Solar Glasses Are a New Alternative

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

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Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

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Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Without her own home and pressured by rent, a 25-year-old bought a small 15-meter boat, gradually renovated the interior by herself, transformed the interior with paint, new flooring, a larger bathroom, and started living on the canals, paying much less per month.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.

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In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Without her own home and pressured by rent, a 25-year-old bought a small 15-meter boat, gradually renovated the interior by herself, transformed the interior with paint, new flooring, a larger bathroom, and started living on the canals, paying much less per month.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.

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Brazilian scientists are simultaneously advancing two research projects on clean hydrogen and driving solutions that could transform the energy matrix, enhance industrial competitiveness, and accelerate large-scale emission reduction targets.

Advancement in renewable energy: A R$ 150 million project launched by Petrobras and Finep aims to create state-of-the-art electrolyzers for green hydrogen, strengthening national research and preparing Brazil to compete in a billion-dollar energy market.

Illiterate or semi-literate grandmothers were trained to repair solar systems, open rural workshops, and light up homes that still depended on kerosene.

The world has bet on green hydrogen as the fuel of the future, but now faces the side effect: producing 1 kilogram requires about 9 liters of ultrapure water, and the largest projects on the planet are precisely in the driest regions of the Earth, where water is already scarce for people.

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