Comments on “Focus on Alternatives”
Your staff correspondent's report titled "Focus on Alternatives' published on 8th. January, related to the Colloquium on Alternative Energy held on 7th January in your office. The subject of commercial availability and use of 'fuel cell' in many countries was discussed. However, as far as I am aware, 'fuel cells' are still not established as a ready solution for power supply. It is expected to get wider usage may be in the next five years or so! Its largest prospect for the US domestic market will be as engine for electric cars; needing no power from any source, except water in place of gasoline or diesel fuel to be put into the fuel tank! We eagerly wait for the launching of the fuel-celled automobile in Bangladesh!
However, on solar power sources, the new product available in the US market as thin filmed sandwiched solar glass panels that can be fitted like ordinary glass pane in windows. This can easily supply power for the many new high-rises coming up in USA! We should go all out for this product, which I knew was sold in California, a few years back! I do not believe that this remarkable product was mentioned; during the discussions.
We need not go for using cow dung; but go for "human dung'; for the want of a better word! We should explore the possibility of using the refuse collected in WASA sewage pits on area wise basis. The methane available can be easily used for cooking.
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