Your Questions About Wind Turbine Generators For Sale
John asks…
How to Face India’s Future Energy Crisis?
India is located at a perfect location and has the most perfect weather than Why are we not taking advantage of it?
India is surrounded by oceans, meaning coastlines, where its most windy, so why don’t we have Wind Turbines to produce Electricity?
India is one of the countries that experiences long summers, and most sunny days, then why don’t we have Solar Panels to produce electricity?
These technologies are much better than burning coals to produce electricity, coal burning releases carbon dioxide which is a major cause global warming.
Where as Wind and Solar Energy Technology are clearn energy souces. We have these technology available to us, then Why not use it at a larger scale?
admin answers:
The energy policy of India is characterized by tradeoffs between four major drivers:
Rapidly growing economy, with a need for dependable and reliable supply of electricity, gas, and petroleum products;
Increasing household incomes, with a need for affordable and adequate supply of electricity, and clean cooking fuels;
Limited domestic reserves of fossil fuels, and the need to import a vast fraction of the gas, crude oil, and petroleum product requirements, and recently the need to import coal as well; and
Indoor, urban and regional environmental impacts, necessitating the need for the adoption of cleaner fuels and cleaner technologies.
These trade-offs are often difficult to achieve. For example, the supply of adequate, yet affordable electricity generated and used cleanly is a continuing challenge because expansion of supply, and adoption of cleaner technologies, especially renewable energy, often means that this electricity is too expensive for many Indians, particularly in rural areas.
In recent years, these challenges have led to a major set of continuing reforms and restructuring.
1 Energy conservation
2 Electricity industry
3 Alterative bio-diesel sources
4 Wind power showcase
5 Oil
6 Nuclear power
7 Solar Energy
8 Policy framework
Energy conservation
Energy conservation has emerged as a major policy objective, and the Energy Conservation Act 2001, was passed by the Indian Parliament in September 2001. This Act requires large energy consumers to adhere to energy consumption norms; new buildings to follow the Energy Conservation Building Code; and appliances to meet energy performance standards and to display energy consumption labels. The Act also created the Bureau of Energy Efficiency to implement the provisions of the Act.
Electricity industry
The electricity industry has been restructured by the Electricity Act 2003, which unbundles the vertically integrated electricity supply utilities in each state of India into a transmission utility, and a number of generating and distribution utilities. Electricity Regulatory Commissions in each state set tariffs for electricity sales. The Act also enables open access on the transmission system, allowing any consumer (with a load of greater than 1 MW) to buy electricity from any generator. Significantly, it also requires each Regulatory Commission to specify the minimum percentage of electricity that each distribution utility must source from renewable energy sources.
Alterative bio-diesel sources
The President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, is one of the strong advocaters of Jatropha cultivation for production of bio-diesel.[1] In his recent speech, the President said that out of the 60 million hectares (600,000 km²) of waste land that is available in India over 30 million hectares (300,000 km²) are suitable for Jatropha cultivation. Once this plant is grown the plant has a useful lifespan of several decades. During it life Jatropha requires very little water when compared to other cash crops. For plan for supplying incentives to encourage the use of Jatropha has been implemented.
Wind power showcase
The once-impoverished village of Muppandal benefited from the building of the nearby Muppandal wind farm, a renewable energy source, which supplies the villagers with electricity for work.[2][3] The village had been selected as the showcase for India’s $2 billion clean energy program which provides foreign companies with tax breaks for establishing fields of wind turbines in the area. Now huge power-producing windmills tower over the palm trees. The village has attracted wind energy producing companies creating thousands of new jobs, dramatically raising the incomes of villagers.[4] The suitability of Muppandal as a site for wind farms stems from its geographical location as it has access to the seasonal monsoon winds.[2]
Oil
Because of political instability in the Middle East and increasing domestic demand for energy, India is keen on decreasing its dependency on OPEC to meet its oil demand, and increasing its energy security. Several Indian oil companies, primarily lead by ONGC and Reliance Industries, have started a massive hunt for oil in several regions in India including Rajasthan, Krishna-Godavari river basin[5] and north-eastern Himalayas. The proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline is a part of India’s plan to meet its increasing energy demand.
Nuclear power
While India is self-sufficient in thorium, possessing 24% of the world’s known and economically available thorium,[6] it possesses a meager 1% of the similarly calculated global uranium reserves.[7] The United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act is expected to greatly help India in obtaining a steady supply of sufficient nuclear energy in the longer run.
Solar Energy
India’s theoretical solar potential is about 5000 TW·h per year (i.e. 600 GW), far more than its current total consumption. Currently solar power is prohibitive due to high initial costs of deployment. However India’s long-term solar potential could be unparalleled in the world because it has the ideal combination of both high solar insolation and a big potential consumer base density. [8][9] A major factor influencing a regions energy intensity is the cost of energy consumed for temperature control. Since cooling load requirements, unlike heating, are roughly in phase with the sun’s intensity, cooling from intense solar radiation could make perfect energy-economic sense in the subcontinent, whenever the required technology becomes competitively cheaper.
Policy framework
A long-term energy policy perspective is provided by the Integrated Energy Policy Report 2006 which provides policy guidance on energy-sector growth.
Lisa asks…
Got any suggestions, wacky or otherwise, for topping up the battery of electric cars?
You may have heard recently in the news about the governments plan to boost electric car sales by offering subsidies of upto £5K for electric or plug-in cars ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8001254.stm ). One of the problems with electric cars is how to top-up the battery without excessive down-time (ie periods where you can’t drive the car). Have you any suggestions, wacky or otherwise, for how to do this?
My own suggestion is to divert some airflow through tubes that run the length of the car (maybe even avoiding the passenger compartment!), with miniature wind-turbines inside that help recharge the battery.
>There wouldn’t be near enough power >generated from that small amount of wind to >make any noticeable difference. Seriously.
Ever tried trying to open the door of your car when it’s traveling at 30mph or more? You might discover that the ‘wind‘ is not that small!
>It would require MORE energy to move the car >and you will get less energy from the turbines >due to irreversibility’s.
Irreversibility’s of what?
>You can’t get something for nothing. The car’s motor is what is making the wind you feel. If you put a turbine out the window or in a tube or whatever, you would make less energy than you use to make the wind to turn it with (friction, less than 100% efficiency…).
I agree you can’t get something for nothing. The idea of the tubes would be to take some airflow that would have otherwise been acting to slow the car (through friction of airflow, or drag), and to instead partially convert it to electricity (via the miniature wind-turbines). I wouldn’t stick the wind-turbines out the window!
>How about putting a dynamo into the passenger side window winder. Whilst driving along the passenger can repeatedly wind the window up and down to generate electricity to help top up the batteries. This would also dramatically cut down on friends who wanted to ponce a lift somewhere as well. heeeeheeeheee.
Good idea, but with some minor problems:
Extra drag whilst the window is in the open position.
Your passenger may develop RSI.
Your passenger may develop bigger arm muscles to thump you with!
>can it run on feces?
If you could bear the stench!
admin answers:
Regenrative braking is the most effective way of topping up the battery by recapturing waste energy and already used on most electric cars and hybrids
Solar pannels could contribute something, but would increase the weight of the vehicle, and probably drag too.
A generator trailer is a well tried solution = instant hybrid for long journies, but without carrying the weight & complexity for normal travel. Http://www.evalbum.com/2312
the first question to ask is given that an electic car can travel 200 miles before recharging and then recharged in 10 minutes http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com is this really “excessive downtime”. The driver should take a 10minute break too after 200 miles.
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