> Will it be affordable? This is some serious technology and I would assume a hefty price tag would follow.

> Will it be reliable? This is probably the most important factor.

Even if it the above questions are answered with an astounding “yes” I would probably still lean toward the traditional solar panels and horizontal axis wind turbines. Why? Simplicity! The most reliable residential sized wind turbines built today are simple, rugged and easy to fix.

I’m all about new, innovative ideas but it seems to me that the current technology works fine and would work better if improved.

Thank you for your interest. As far as the clean energies are concerned, India registered 394 Clean Development Mechanism Projects until now, China exceeds registering 417 projects (TOI, 04 March 2009) the reason being the lack of project execution and fragmented system design to use these renewable energies in the growing urban sector. Almost all energy from renewable sector are used in the Industrial development and to certain extent in Housing Development. Therefore we need a proper channelized system and self sustainable technology to use at local level minimizing operation cost.

Deployment of Clean energy and sustainable development requires cost factor to be efficient. Within existing technologies such as Biogas, Biomass and Biofuel production would considerably achieve clean energy agenda. If I wish, I could make each region energy independent by latest technologies available at fair cost and establish them at relative cost. Now the challenge is how to integrate such raw energy in the buildings in a integrated manner and thats what I am working on…! Being agri-economy, we could still achieve carbon free environment by inducing our production in energy crops and I have started the step in these direction.

So the point is, instead establishing high end technology and dreaming big and the technology discussed here, seems the comic story. Not all the news here is freaky, but the one, just discussed here is nothing but attracting people to visit this blog. The earlier topic of covering sun with nano photo cells and producing energy is critical to think and extravagant and people are working on it, I know its prepared by one of my colleague in TU Delft univ. in Netherlands, it sounds dreamy. Looking at Brazilian story, Brazilian government began investing heavily in ethanol infrastructure and R&D more than 30 years ago. Now the country, which produces 45 percent of its own transportation fuel “on only 1 percent of its arable land,” is aggressively looking beyond both first-generation biofuels and its domestic market. Even one step further, we need such global technology within our reach applied at local fields for domestic consumption with better business sense. I hope I clear my point.

If want to know more or have similar interests, you can of course write to my on my email.

cheers
Arun

I would appreciate if you can go through my article on future of renewable energy and comment.

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/future-renewable-energy-india/

Great to know your development efforts. I would be obliged to understand more about your integrated approach on clean energy generation.

Regards
Ravi Soparkar
Pune , India
RenewableEnergy[AT]in.com