We all know that the major source of
electrical energy production is from fossil fuels and water stored in dams.
Well that’s a silly point I wrote which we all know since our primary school.
But what caused me to make a necessary invention regarding to the energy sector
is that the fossil fuel will be depleted in few more decades and to the way
population is growing we can not completely rely upon our hydro dams. There is
a necessary of shifting our focus on the very unpredictable RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES and harness as maximum energy as possible from those. There is a saying
among renewable energy enthusiasts that “ Studying the pattern of Renewable
energy source is as tough as studying the psychology of women :P ”
MAJOR PROBLEM IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
FROM MY EXPERIENCE IS THAT WE CANT GET ONE PARTICULAR ENERGY SOURCE PROFITABLE
THROUGHT A CALENDER YEAR
Ø Sun emits his powerful rays only for few months in a year.
Ø Wind energy is concentrated only to certain geographical part of the
earth and doesn’t flow continuously.
Ø Tidal energy (wave energy ) is highly un-predictable and its said to
be non-profit source for a nation like INDIA though we have more than 7000 km
of coastline because of low tides.
WELL I BELIEVE THAT HURDLES ARE ALWAYS
THERE TO BE CROSSED. Here in this article I tried to bring out the niche way of
producing electricity from above three sources of energy through-out the year.
You are seeing the images of the adverse
effects of TIDES, SOLAR RADIATION AND WIND. How amazing it would be if all
these three energy sources can be integrated at one point and harnessed and
produced electricity?, excited?
Yes
its what this project is all about. Having a single or two generating system to
the max and extracting energy from three or more source at a single place.
Ø The coastal line is well blessed with all these three energy sources
Ø The amount of solar radiation required for power production will be
naturally high in the coastal line
Ø Wind velocity required for the wind mills to rotate and produce
decent amount of electrical energy will be available too.
Ø The tidal energy though the researchers predict that its impractical
to implement it in major parts of Indian coastline, we can overcome it through
my specific design for harnessing energy even from the low tides .
HOW THESE ENERGY SOURCES WILL BE INTEGRATED
TO A SINGLE GENERATING SYSTEM ?? Here
I will be explaining you the different designs used for WIND MILL and TIDAL DEVICE. The usual wind mill (
HORIZONTAL AXIS ) design has its many limitation and are suitable for the high
altitude places. And in country like INDIA where environmentalists oppose the
wind mill installation since they are threat to birds as birds are being killed
in many parts cause of the wind turbines
This one
is the top view of the wind mill which has vertical axis. This type of wind
mill usually can generate electricity upto 0.9 MW with all bearing and air
frictional errors. This design in particular has been applied for patent. The
risk of birds getting struck in the blades is minimised and hence least chance
of birds getting killed.
This is the design of tidal turbine in
which a device harnesses the waves energy and pushes the high density liquid
which further rotates the turbine and further the generator.THIS TWO TURBINES WILL BE COUPLED TO A
HEAVY LOAD BEARING SPIRAL SPRING AND FURTHER TO THE GENERATOR.
THIS
MEDIATOR SPRING DEIVCE DESIGN IS UNDER PATENT SEARCH AND IT WILL BE DISCLOSED
SHORTLY .
This is written by our guest writer- Keshava.N
