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The recent steep increases in oil, gas and coal prices and the need for countries worldwide to closely consider power sector fuel diversification, fuel efficiency, and greenhouse gas emissions, has made it very timely to open this topic up to discussion. Discuss on various fuel options for generating power here......
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The vision of an energy indendent Planet Earth may seem delusional to some people. The idea of our world powered by wind turbines and photovaltic power stations is quite overwhelming to the mind, admittedly. Questions emerge - doubts really. How would we get there? Where do even start? Where would all the money come from? Could I contribute somehow? Ironically, the answers to these questions and others may lie at the tip of your fingers, even as we speak! Networking is an incredibly powerful tool, especially among like minds. When powerful minds come together in unison, there is nothing that cannot be achieved, quite frankly. Through Too Step, a global coalition can begin to form. Upon form...
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Isaac Aitalegbe
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So purchasing of crude oil?
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Gokul Chandra Patnaik
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India has vast reserves of coal as natural resource and coal is our prime fuel (65-70%)for thermal power gerneration. We must make all efforts to use coal by using high efficiency & eco-friendly technologies in sustainable
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Jim McKirdy
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The only answer to our current problems is fuel and well ness to all living things including people. To solve this problem is very simple and I do not understand why it is so hard to understand. The sun's energy is free. No moving parts to break...
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Padmaja Baskar
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I think that hydro fuel is much better option than gasoline.There are various advantages of it like: More Horsepower and Better Performance The water gas injection has 5 times the energy potential of regular gasoline. A cleaner environment By...
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Sudeep Tarafdar
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yes even i agree with vivek on this that all over the world there is no proper infrastructure to produce hydrogen fuel on a large scale and nobody is doing anything at the moment to develop this technology apart from car manufacturers coming out...
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Ted Green
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I think we need to reach outside the box and relook at what can not be done and find a way. We have started contest for inventors to compete for prizes. Will have to add containment ! I still think and know it can be done. If FORD and BMW already...
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What is GTL (Gas To Liquid) plant which is starting in qatar by qatar petroleum and shell.
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RK DWIVEDI
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GTL means Global Telecom Limited is a infrastructure provider company in Telecom sector.
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Pragya Kothari
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Adding to what others have said GTL is a type of liquid fuel produced from natural gas. It isn't classic liquefied natural gas, which is natural gas cooled to the point where it turns into a fluid. Instead, methane from underground is cracked by...
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Purnesh Meshram
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Well the Gas To Liquid Plant is utilizing a process in which gas in presence of catalyst convrted into liquid fuels. now the question in your mind is why the hell gas has converted in to liquid? there are many points which support liquid fuel and...
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How about experimenting with a Steam Engine ???
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indranil
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instead of using fossils such as coal to genetate steam we could use electricity, such as coils etc to reduce pollution.
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Sudhish Chatterjee
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"How about experimenting with a Steam Engine ???"
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Mr,Nayan has asked some good questions and it would be great if anyone can throw light on that.
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Nayan Deb
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"How about experimenting with a Steam Engine ???"
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Dear Mr Sadique, To enable the steam to do the work we need a Turbine and then transmit the torque and the rpm generated by the turbine through the drive train and then to the wheels. Whats the mechanism you have in mind? Moreover what type of...
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Nayan Deb
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Dear Mr Saswat, As rightly pointed out by Mr Rao and Asmita the market together with its infrastructure has to come a long way to absorb such a technology like Hydrogen Fueled and battery powered car. Right now i guess India is 10 years away from...
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Nayan Deb
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Dear Mr Ashim Banerjee, In the near future Ultra capacitors and not the battery alone is the answer.In this way we can reduce the weight and the space required just to store the battery. Then there is special type of an alternator which can even...
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Tata V.S. Kameswara Rao
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Mr. Saswant, it an excellent brain storming subject you have brougt. The exact need of the day to think and implement before the other nations do. We must look back into our history and the way Automobiles ahve entered INDIA. Only maharajas and...
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richa
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Dumping nuclear fuel is main problem and it's like a junk for our earth. It destroy life where it is dumped and its emission have lot of harmful radiation which is harmful for human being.
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yashpal
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yes Nuclear power is only sustainable, economically viable option for medium and lomgterm energy security
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Kishore Jujjavarapu
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70% of world's pollution/green house gases produced by automibile industry. only 30% of green hourse are produced by industry. in that only 15-18% Greenhouse gases are produece by thermal power plants. if our country wants to reduce greenhouse...
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INFLUENCE
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mvaravind
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Since there is no enough fine resourses....
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Jim McKirdy
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The use of Alternative Fuels is just a band aid to the problems we have. Wind mills sound good on paper but they can not come close to the sun's energy for power. Here in the United States we are finding this out the hardway. Wasting money on...
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Bellala Gopinatha Rao
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iT IS THE ATTRACTION OF BENEFIT TOP BUROCRETS GETTING FROM PETROLIUM AND AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY INFLUENCES THE ADMINISTRATOR , OTHERWISE WHAT OUR RESEARH AND DEVELOPEMENT DEPT IS DOING? fRIENDS WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ? OR ELSE IS THERE ANY OTHER REASON..?
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Grassoline: Biofuels Beyond Corn By now it ought to be clear that the U.S. must get off oil. We can no longer afford the dangers that our dependence on petroleum poses for our national security, our economic security or our environmental security. Yet civilization is not about to stop moving, and so we must invent a new way to power the world’s transportation fleet. Cellulosic biofuels—liquid fuels made from inedible parts of plants—offer the most environmentally attractive and technologically feasible near-term alternative to oil. Biofuels can be made from anything that is, or ever was, a plant. First-generation biofuels derive from edible biomass, primarily corn and soybeans (in the U.S.)...
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Mathew Cherian
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Informative, but I feel more work is being done on hybrids automobiles now the first state of the conversion from the present IC engines, cars that start on batteries run for 50 miles and then switching to gas. Probably it will take some more time...
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Sano Jacob
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Thats right Biofuels are now made from lots of sources like alga than from corn or other food grains . If corn-based biofuels are the Britney Spears of the cleantech world (a fallen star but still all over the place), fuel made from algae is the...
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I am just worrying about that weither the ethanol can be a viable alternative to petroleum. The economic point of view of this fuel, and its impact on environment.
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Prakash Saitwal
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Etahnol is not a alternative to Petroleum. It is an additive to Petrol. It can be added to 10% maximum in Petroleum, without changing ignition, emission properties of Petroleum. In Europe, it is added in ratio of 10%. In India, we have started...
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It is widely believed that an atmospheric increase in the greenhouse gases CO2 has played a significant role in global warming. Even now, CO2 accounts for less than 1/3 of greenhouse gases. Water vapo...
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Syam Sundar. Bheemireddy
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Hydrogen is called as a freedom fuel. It the future fuel which is abundantly available all over the world.In a fuel cell, electricity is created by a different set of reactants, and the two ingredients that cause the reaction, hydrogen and...
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Balwant Sharma
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In the realm of accepted science, you really have lost your mind! Your question of future environmental proclivity ,and the detriments of such a situation, are the fodder of short-sighted visionaries. Real visionaries of this age, have only a...
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Smriti Sharma
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Water vapor does not cause global warming. The atmospheric concentration of water vapor is dependent on the atmospheric temperature. Thus water vapor acts as a feedback, but will not initiate warming. We can emit as much water vapor as we want...
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