The community that has “figured out” green - is going to
have the most energy security, economic security, competitive companies,
healthy population and, most of all, global respect.
The “Earn while you
Cook” program believes that biomass energy and its residue can be powerhouse tools
to fuel a bio-economy
enterprise led path to “figuring out”green.
Energy can be made
from renewable sources and from non-renewable sources. Energy combustion
has many upshots – depletion and environmental damage being the critical.
Right now 80% of the
energy we consume is non-renewable energy (coal, petroleum oil and Natural
gas). It served the purpose of our frenzied industrial revolution.
We still have the need for frenzied energy generation – but the non renewable
sources are depleting.
So we turn to
renewable sources – biomass, solar, wind. But we are still not at a point where
the technologies to generate power from biomass, solar and wind are on par with
the renewable fuels on convenience and reliability. But that’s a “attitude
shift” challenge.
Of the renewable
energy choices available to us – and of the growing concern regarding carbon
karma – biomass and solar are ideal “paths” to pursue – esp in a country like
India – where biomass energy culture is already prevalent to the extent of 75%
of the population and solar energy is bring and tropical.
What gives biomass
the slight edge over solar is neutral Co2 Impact. Although Biomass can be
called truly renewable only if the rate of planting exceeds the rate of
harvesting, the residual carbon after its use – can play a very positive role
in impacting climate change.
Only Biomass has the
carbon edge!
