I know it is not about nuclear reactor, but something related to it. I believe india should start exploiting the renewable endless heap of energy, solar, wind and Waves energy. Scotland gets 21% of its energy supply from solar and wave energy, why can not india? we have more abundance of solar, wave and even wind? This form of enery is not only very clean but also makes country more independent. I think graduates of india [5% of all eh?] should try and make a difference.
RE:Alternatives,
by vijaisarathi selvaraj on Mar 19, 2007 11:22 AM Permalink
Mr.Sumit, The idea of using renewable sources of energy is good, but U need to look requirements of India and that of a small country like Scotland. Numbers can't be taken just like that as comparisons. For example a small country like Scotland say needs 100MW(just example), its easy to produce 21MW (if ur 21% of energy from renewable is to be considered) but for a growing & energy hubgry country like India which I guess requires 100,000MW by 2025 (if according to some of articles that I had read before are right) producing ur number of 21% which will account to 21,000MW is not at all a easy task, say even 10,000MW is a not a very easy task. Do U know how much of vacant land (in a country like India,where free land scarce to find)is even required free of wind barriers are needed to set up giant windmills which will just produce around a few hundreds of KW power. Remeber U cant set up wind mills in any barren land, U need to have contsant wind flow which is hard to find in Monsoon dependent country like India. Same with solar,remeber that the cost of solar cells to produce to tap in solar energy is expensive and it too prodcues very less energy. Nuclear energy is the only viable energy source and all others need to be concentrated for additional energy but not as main source. Dont forget that we already were utilized much in the 1st Industrial revolution without us getting any benefit out of it, dont leave ur 2nd chance to make a come back. Let us do the research but lets use the available nuclear power for us to 1st grow and create wealth whgich then can be used to do research in finding more better alternatives, dont forget that the current super powers grew on Nuclear energy and only now looking at other alternatives. We have a lot to catch up and time is not a renewable too and letsd not forget it.
RE:RE:Alternatives,
by Kutta on Mar 19, 2007 11:58 AM Permalink
Status of Wind power
#1 Germany (20,621 MW) #2 Spain (11,615 MW) #3 USA (11,603 MW) #4 India (6,270 MW) 35 Denmark (3,136 MW)
Wind energy is HAPPENING in India as you can see we are amongst leading nation. We have huge land and open spaces in hinterland, Why not use this absolutey clean format of energy ?
Status of Solar power
India receives solar energy equivalent to over 5000 trillion kWh/year (world's highest level). Now it is for our smartness to use it or let our edge over plentyful sun wither away.
Solar energy can be very convenienty used to -
a. domestic lighting b. street lighting c. village electrification d. water pumping e. desalination of salty water f. powering of remote telecommunication repeater stations and g. railway signals.
This is save the load on the main grid as well as these will work on their own thanks to solar power charged battery.
It's here and happening. In your day to day life you can see solar panels on top of flats and houses giving heated water to residents and also street lights powered by that. Tata Solar is one such company manufacturing solar systems.
USA, Europe, and Japan as leaders in use of solar technologies. Interestingly all these countries have much LESS sunshine than India.
WAVE ENERGY
With India having 7.600 KM of coastline with "waves" it surely deserves a serious attention. Developed countries in Europe and America are already doing this.
And of course Nuclear Power Plants - Clean and massive source of energy.
This can potentially complete the energy mix. We dont have to go through what Europe and USA went through in 19th and 20th centuries using coal energy. Instead we can leapfrog that developmental stage straight to CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES.
