How to solve the Energy Crisis - Conservation or Innovation..

by the way my friend it is too late for conservation , your ideas can really be implemented if we can some how check the rapidly increasing population

so u think to conserve energy by keeping power off for an hour. but my dear friend first of all you should know in india in every second a child is born some where in india. so you can think that if you do not consume power we ca really save energy

we cannot depend on conservation of enregy because of oru rapidly in creasing population. if population increases then to quench their demands we need more energy but majority of us depends on non renewable source of energy. we need fossil fuels to drive automobiles. so energy conservation is not a good idea in country like india where population is increasing rapidly.

i think we never stop the the consumtion of energy,so we should genrate new options.we should consentrate on solar energy&neuclear energy.that's the solution of this crises. 

we should find new source of energy like gas hydride i.e frozen methane gas found in abundance in sea floor, also we can use underwater turbine generators where water current below top surface of river is high, also we can create a solar wurz to be located where we can get maximum solar energy in a day, it will serve dual purpose - create power by using solar power and also filter air. if interested in my ideas i can send videos for it. 

now we are very comfort, Energy reqds are increasing day by day, to overcome this issue, we need to innovate / adopt new techniques. Conserving Energy will possible only max.10%.

Innovation doesnt necessarily mean discovering new technologies. It can mean putting more resources into alternative means. Like for eg Solar power has still not been exploited fully even though temperatures are rising every other day. For thagt matter even Wind power. Jatropa is the latest kid on the block but we seems to be concentrating more efforts on depleting existing resources instead of putting our efforts more on these alternative energies which are available in abundance.

The Chinese term for 'crisis' is'danger-opportunity'.Without 'danger','opportunity' cannot come to the surface.So,it's 'innovation' that provides evolutionary approach to 'opportunity' to solve the crisis.'Conservation'advocates 'status quo' ,that prevents 'forward thinking'....

Conservation is an old idea. There is an ever increasing need for consumption of energy. Individual is to vie for an alternative to fulfill his needs.It will be satisfied, probably, through Innovations.

there is no limitation of energy in india the country which has the population of more than 100 crore where there is no space for transportation on road where there unlimited sound , light , heat is poduced to a very high way . if we consume all the three energy and make a device which can consume heat , sound & light energy can easily work for 24 hrs to provide heat , sound and light this can help in avoiding electricity problem , oil problem for transportation , gas and other things

INNOVATION... but CONSERVATIVE INNOVATION !

Lets face a hard fact today... Life is becoming harder by the minute & the comforts needed are becoming easier by the minute. We need so many gadgets from Morning to Night that it would be difficult to list them down. All of them Use Power / Energy.

Ask your own self... Can U do without these comforts ? NO can be the only answer. In this advancing lifestyle it would be more appropriate to Innovate rather than Conserve Energy. At the same time it is neccessary to Innovate Comforts which can Conserve some more Energy than their predecessors.

It is a very sweet thought to Say & to Agree that Yes, we should save energy. BUT who does it as a practice & the very few who actually do it, will they be able to make a difference ?

Today, people have no time to walk & maintain their physical state... SO, they use Walkers which either run on battery or power, which burn enough calories that walking would do, by just lying down or relaxing. We have gone so gadget crazy & lazy that now we use SHREDDERS to tear paper which we use to do by our hands earlier...

In such a scenario it is futile to even think about Conserving Energy...               WE SHOULD ONLY INNOVATE ENERGY !

Happy Debating Friends !  

Its Innovation. But compared to innovation, implementing the innovation matters a lot. India is the hub of talented professionals and already lot of innovations underway and some implemented. to say few,

1) One person erected a power plant, to generate power from paddy husk. And the best part is he is supplying power to in and around 30 villages.(3 months old article)

2) Next an IIT graduate submitted a project to generate power from sewage. Basically through some bacterial reaction.(2 week old article)

3) Another aspiring engineering graduate, demonstrated how to generate power when ever a vehicle passes over a speed breaker.

These were only a few. There are lots of innovation already and also will come henceforth because India produces 20 to 30 lakh engineering professionals yearly. This means 30 lakh projects yearly.

So my underlining point is, Society will be benefited only when the innovations are transformed into reality. Thanks.

As the world's population is growing and the demand for energy is rapidly incresing conventional methods and conservation is not the solution for to meet the demands. i think currently only hydro electricity and nuclear power are the two major alternatives. But new innovations for alternate source of energy is the best method i feel.

Innovation in solar / wind / nuclear power gereration would allow:

1.  Large number of distributed energy sources

2.  Huge cost cutting in setting up, operational and maintenance costs

3.  Upgradation of existing sources

4.  Provide ("the best") challenge for new generation scientists/engineers/tech. developers for innovation

5.  Healthy competition for established industry and associated progress

Point is conservation is never a solution ever for anything. On a light note conservation is too say I have 1 cake and so that it does not finish I will only eat a little. This is a short term solution only as at one point it will finish.

Next comes the bigger point generation of energy is not like switching a light on and switching it off . Changes in generation may actually bring in more problems than actually solve them bringing in power surge.

On the contrary Innovation has been always a solution for long term for any problem. Starting it again on a light note. You may not have the right flour for baking the cake, but you can innovate to find out alternate flours and bake more cake . That is why innovation is so important. Coming down to energy requirement world around is working on alternate source of energy like wind / water/ tidal etc.

The summary is energy innovation is required for future and not energy conservation.

we have crossed the limit of conservation.

no amount of conservation can help us now.

the only way is to tap nuclear energy/ solar energy by innovation innovation