has ne one ever thought abt or seen a stand alone affordable power generation unit cheaper than normal power supply on running costs(even if higher one time costs) .I am in india.but ne info is welcome.My idea is abt an INDIVIDUAL HOUSE OWNER NEEDS
India has a wide range of climates; depending on where you are, you might consider solar, wind or geothermal. The technology to watch, however, is gassification. You can convert wood, bark, leaves, corn husks, cow dung or ordinary garbage to a variety of liquid and gaseous fuels. Use the fuels to power a gas turbine or internal combustion engine; soon, you may be able to use them in a fuel cell for direct production of electricity. Gassification is now economical for units as small as 50 kilowatt; smaller units are rapidly becoming both efficient and affordable.
Although nuclear power can provide for the energy needs of the future, but it is not a green energy. The social cost we all have to pay in the future outweighs the benefits of nuclear plants / nuclear energy, taking the lessons from our past experiences with nuclear plant all over the world. Alternatively, more RD should be channeled into areas of wind, solar, water energy generation. The key word here is alternative green energy. After all, we only have 1 earth and it is clear to all of us that polluting it further would only result in killing ourselves and our future generations. Only green energy guarantees our future generations' continued existence on this one and only home we have; Earth. As in all developments, initial development costs are high but as we develop and move towards green energy, there is invariably a tipping point where green energy becomes economically viable energy. Furthermore, how can human kind trade-off the cost of developing clean energy against the known certainty of pure negative environmental effects of nuclear plants ? There should not be a consideration of developing further nuclear power plants at all, in the face of certainty of the negative effects to the environment. Green and clean energy should be pursued as the future energy solution for the future.
