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Energy for the future - What will run or Cars in time Ahead
Praveen pratap Singh
Author:Praveen pratap Singh
Marketing Executive In Domino Printech
What will keep our Cars running in future.

The Moment we see the scrolling lines of any news channel mentioning " Crude oil price to go further up" only one thing comes in to our mind that what is going to happen. How this world going to fulfill its need for energy as more than 80% resources of energy are mineral based or conventional fuel ( e.g. coal, petroleum) but we should not get alarmed by this news about the Crude oil price because this is just the small wave of the sunami and bigger one is about to come.

What the real problem is : Today's price hike in crude oil is just because of two three thing, like unrest in few oil producing nations and greedy mentality of the OPEC but these are not the permanent problem and can be solved with the time. But our major concern is that, the mineral based energy is limited and this will be finish at a point of time "so what are we going to do after that" ?

And our concern increases when we know that any organic thing takes millions of years to be converted in petroleum or coal. one more thing which increases our worryis that we are still to find any stable substitute to find for this source of energy.

What are the prospective Solutions : -

1. Solar Energy: its a very popular and continuous source of energy currently we are using just a quantum of this. As there are some boundation for this like it depends on the weather and climate conditions. We can use it for lighting purpose mainly because the cost of conserving it and using in other machinery is very costly. and it can not your car if it is no an electric one.

2. Wind energy. Again this source can be used for producing power on small level and it depends on weather and climate conditions and it won’t run your car.

3. Nuclear Energy: This is the biggest source of energy on the planet. and we are already shifting our power need to this resource. The power produced by this technique is devastating and it needs technical superiority to control this and use for civil purpose. We are producing power only by nuclear fission the day we will be able to control nuclear fusion we will have the biggest source of power and good thing about this is it will need sea water as its fuel. The biggest concern of this energy is the environment and safety as it can prove fatal for both.

There is a good news for us that " Our country is having lots of Thorium which is used for producing urenium in breeder reactors". So we have technology, we have raw materail for Nucler power only one thing we need and that is a clear nuclear policy.

Hydrogen : This is the energy we are interested from starting we were searching that what will run our car, Hydrogen is the answer for that. Some car manufacturer already have started working on it and came up with the prototype of this car. This source of energy if utilized in full can be proved a boon for the entire mankind. The two biggest advantages of this energy are 1. The source for hydrogen is water which we have plenty on our planet 2. The use of hydrogen as fuel will leave no pollutants in the environment. for example if we will run a hydrogen car then it will produce water as exhaust. so it will solve the pollution problam also.

Methane hydrate : This is a newly identified source of energy. Not many people know about it, but in future this is going to be main source for the energy . It is a unlimited source of energy as its production is continuous by nature inside the sea.

The main barricade to achieve this source is that we still have to find ways to extract Methane hydrate from sea and produce energy from it.

Bio fuel: Its an another prospective subtitute for our fuel requirement. We get biofuel from jatropa tree. We need to do huge plantation of this to fullfill our requirements. Indian railway has started using biofuel in some of its locomotives and have planted jatropa on railway land at many places.

But we can not depand on this fuel for our entire requirement as it will require lots of cultivative land and another point is we cannot use this fuel as full replacement of petrol or diesal we just can mix it with them in a particular ratio and then we can use it, It means we still require patrolium if we want to use bio fuel.

These are the few prospective sources which will replace the current resources of energy. As we are continuously working toward identifying the replacement of mineral fuel, so we live in a hope that we will get success in this before mineral fuel will be completely finished.

Hope till the time new sources arrive we will use the existing one carefully.

 
Comments
Comment 1: By Bhawna Kumar on 02nd Jul 2008
It's salutary that our people have started giving importance to environmental issues, if people continue doing the same dn no wonder we can surely save our precious environment and we can resolve such major issues relating to conventional resources dos r limited on dis earth.
Solar energy is a very powerfull resource if we all learn to use the same n so is the case of bio fuels, lets continue spreading this awareness among our society and hope for the miraculous change....Keep posting

Comment 2: By Varun Paranjape on 02nd Jul 2008
Thats really good information shared.
just further to that, Govt now just enveiled Climate change policy and i understand it is just the willingness of policy makers going ahead with such renewable and unconventional enery sources

Comment 3: By Vivek Ojha on 02nd Jul 2008
very true praveen....therz one more option with us...that is biofuels....biofuels can be prepared by transesterification of oil producing plants like jatropha and karanjia.

Comment 4: By Pandurangam venkatamangalam on 02nd Jul 2008
The real problem with us is not able to take decision on Nuclear energy.
Thanks to our great left's policy and minority govt. Just to stick to power these old power hungry politicains will never do any thing other than let the crisis to take over.
Another impartamt aspect is the oil exploration of Indian coasts. What is happening God only knows.
Indian is more powerful than United States and America Put togather if we can explore the oil which is abundant,give incentive for compulsory installation of solar operated systems and energy conservation methods by adopting bio gas and cow dung based production of combustable gas, India can go long way.

Comment 5: By Manish garg on 02nd Jul 2008
It's really a nice blog... giving info. about future prob.Hope we soon get some solution of this problem.

Comment 6: By MOHAN S on 02nd Jul 2008
Very Unfortunately the reason for Oil Price Rise is not Demand and Supply as many think. The oil producing countries have no clue why prices go up. It is the U.S Financial giants like Goldman Sachs,Citigroup etc are using the commodity markets to rig the prices.

Comment 7: By Raj Koodli on 02nd Jul 2008
Nice blog hope the crude oil price will come down very soon and save the world

Comment 8: By Sidhant Kumar on 01st Jul 2008
Very good blog and I do agree with you. Its really nice to see some car manufactures are working on Hydrogen as an important energy component to run car. I hope they get succeed. Our environment and energy is too precious. Time has come, when we should seriously act on this thought.

Comment 9: By Girish Sahu on 01st Jul 2008
Nice thought Praveen and kudos for depicting bigger picture of energy crisis.

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