Produce Energy while saving one resource:
In India last year a project started to produce energy while saving one Natural resource. This project starts in Gujarat on 19,000 km-long network of Narmada canal across the state for setting up solar panels to generate power.
The State Government was compelled to take up this project through Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL), as no developer was ready to take the challenge at that time, he said.
The pilot project has been developed on a 750-m stretch of the canal by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSECL) with support from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), owner and maintainer of the canal network. The small pilot project will generate 16 lakh units of clean energy per annum and also prevent evaporation of 90 lakh liters of water annually from the canal. The concept will, therefore, tackle two of the challenges simultaneously by providing energy and water security. If only 10% of existing canal network OF 19,000 KM is used, it have capacity to generate 2200 MW of solar energy only by by covering the canals with solar panels. Gujarat, which invests nearly Rs 2,000 crore an year on renewable energy, has attracted investments of Rs 9,000 crore so far on solar energy projects.
As the water is flowing under the panels, so Solar Pannels will be cooler and will generate more power. They will produce 15 per cent more power than the same solar plant setup on land. The project will also cost far less than a traditional solar station because the state already owns the land that it will be using and will not have to spend any funds to acquire more. The infrastructure for the solar panels will also be cheaper because the walls of the canal can be used to support the paneling.
What will it save?
As Solar panels will cover the canal, so there will be very less loss of water by evaporation in summer season. There is a great loss of water in a canal which flows all over the year due to evaporation. So we are saving water and producing electricity without causing any damage to environment.
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Bio-gas: Coming Best Source of Energy
India is full of diversity, natural resources, population, religion, etc. People are hard working religious, disciplined, and full of manners and other lot of qualities but still it is developing country. Many big problems had surrounded it. Some of them are like population, pollution, sex ratio, poverty, illiteracy rate are high and many other one of them is energy crisis. Energy crisis is simply increase in price of energy resources, which leads to over exploration on resources. It effect sustainable development badly. To overcome this crisis huge steps are taken all over the world. Many alternative energy sources are introduced like Solar energy, Wind energy, Tidal energy, Geo thermal energy, hydro power, etc.. But problem is that we fail to utilize them properly. Some have scope at a large stage. So we have to introduce a such source of energy which is very useful both at higher and lower stage. In my view an example of this is Bio-gas. I have chosen this because of availability of raw material required for this. Countries with large milk-production have a large availability of Bio-waste like USA, India, China, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil, Germany, France, UK, Poland are top 10 milk-producing countries. In earlier all the bio-products from animals are put in open which cause methane to escape in environment leading to green-house effect or global warming.
NOTE: To give clear concept about this post, I am taking Indian states as example. You can co-relate it with your own country states which are similar to Indian states.
In India, Haryana, Punjab, Gujrat and Rajasthan are largest milk-producing states. They have a large number of cattle which extract a large quantity of dung which can be used for producing Bio-gas. Presently dung was used to make dung-cakes for household energy needs. It creates pollution by releasing large amount of smoke.
Now let see how can Bio-gas be produced? What Government has to do? What will be its results?
how bio-gas plant works
STARTING OF THE SETUP:
1 . Government first should ask people whether they are ready to sell animal dung at a price which will be set by the Government.
2. If people are not ready, the reason for it is lack if knowledge about it and one the main reason it politics by opposing parties. There should be a video demonstration for this so that people can understand it to depth.
3. Then Government should choose a place outside the village on a barren-land so that fertile
land is not wasted.
4. Then Construction of bio-gas plant.
5. At last, pipelines should be lay down from plant to the Thermal Power Plant.
STAGES OF PLANTING BIOGAS PLANTS:
1. First Stage:
In first stage Government should set Bio-gas plant near the thermal Power plants near the thermal Power Plants so that the expenditure of transporting bio-gas is less. Also bio-gas will be available to power plant on time.
production of electricity from bio-gas plant
2. Second Stage:
This stage is depends upon success of the first stage. If first stage is successful, then Government should invest more in this sector. Government should set more bio-gas plants in farther villages and transport gas by pipelines as it is the most secure and chipset source of transportation. In Haryana, a thermal power plant is surrounded by more than 100 villages and you can estimate about number of animals in a village of World’s largest milk producing country.
complex type of production of electricity
ADVANTAGES OF THIS SETUP:
1. As a large amount of bio-gas will be produced, so it can be used in place in CNG at homes after some purification and improving of quality of Bio-gas. This will lead to lowering of price of CNG in India and Natural gas will be preserved.
2. After Production of Bio-gas, a large amount of manure is also formed which is of better quality then our organic manure. It can be distributed to farmers at lower price so that use of fertilizer is reduced.
3. Methane is one of the largest greenhouse effect gases. When animal dung is left in open, it releases a large amount of methane in environment causing Global warming. So when dung is used in power plants it will reduce Methane effect.
4. There is possibility that we will be introduced to bio-fuel viechles in future, so bio-gas viechles are also possible which will prevent over exploitation of petrol and diesel in future.
5. It will raise economy of farmer as by this electricity will be available to them so they can use electric engines in place of diesel engines and they will earn money by selling dung.
Some Success Stories:
1. Kerla in India
2. Germany
3. Gujrat in India
I hope u understand. I request you to share it so we can take a step to save our Earth.
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