Non-conventional energy … Ideate please

Dear Manoj...

The development of non-conventional energy can bring about an economic revolution in rural India. This is the technology of the future and hence we should aggressively bring awareness among everyone. State electricity boards should collect funds. The fund should be collected every year as 4 paise surcharge per unit on commercial and industrial utilities in the State.

We are not that behind bcoz non-conventional energy based power projects of 3,300 mw capacity have so far been installed, which is about 3 per cent of the installed power generation capacity in the country.

In order to popularize non conventional sources, few things should be mandatory in several categories of buildings which has to be drafted and circulated to all state governments & people with immediate effect otherwise we cannot see that change happening........

What do you say????

Solar energy can be efficiently harnessed by using Solar Thermal Technologies such as Solar Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC), Solar Tower, Solar Stirling and Solar Chimney technologies. In the world, 50 MWe plants are coming up in Europe, USA and Africa.

These plants can be built with facility for salt storage (upto 6 hours) at present and alsobe integrated with natural gas powered power plants for use as combined cycle operation and also in the future for Hydrogen gas generation. Hydrogen is one of the most promising of all fuels, being a clean fuel and can be easily transported and stored.

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