Saturday, September 13, 2008

Energy Issues

With the invention and wide usage of the circuit board in many personal devices and electric motors driving production, human beings have become as dependent on electricity as they are on water. Hence meeting the projected electricity generation needs is today’s biggest priority.

With battery technology becoming more efficient in its storage capacity and its ability to be transported, light weight smaller devices that are highly portable are presently available and transforming the communication industry and all other sectors dependent on communications. Soon with longer times between charges, larger equipment employing electric motors that can perform heavier duties will use electricity stored in moveable batteries, hence modifying both the transportation and manufacturing industries.


The electric motor has long been proven to be more efficient both in weight to output and in operation to maintenance verses the internal combustion engine. It is the underlying power source which made the internal combustion engine more competitive. Fossil-fuels (Gasoline, Diesel and Natural Gas) were lighter to carry and cheaper to burn making it ideal for transportation and manufacturing industries. The manufacturing industry, with its fixed plant (no need to move production equipment) has long embraced the electric motor to drive pumps, conveyer belts, cranes, etc. and is replacing fuel tanks with batteries and solar panels. Soon the transportation industry will add more electric cars and commercial buildings will all be re-designed to produce more electricity than they need.

Producing electricity to power homes, commercial buildings, manufacturing plants, transportation, etc. can no longer depend on coal and oil refined products whose by-products damage the planet. Water, Air and Sun (natural occurrences) must be used to power life without negatively affecting the planet.

The natural, never ending water flow of any stream, river and waves can, with the right equipment, provide hydro electric power to meet the needs of a small village or town. The flow of air, wind that occurs, more often than not, in specific areas at specific heights over sea level can generate enough electricity to power a city. The collection of light from the sun by photocells in the day to charge batteries that in turn provides electricity at night can power each and every building.

New technologies to generate electricity are now focused on the individual, the individual manufacturing plant, the individual commercial centre, the individual residential area, all with a goal to design the most efficient way to meet the future energy needs of the population, even generating electricity for the natural state of the human body.

“Scientists have developed a way to generate electricity by jostling fabric with tiny wires woven inside, raising the prospect of textiles that produce power simply by being stretched, rustled or ruffled by a breeze.” http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004181438_powerclothes14.html

Rationale

T.A.J & Associates Company Limited uses this occasion to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically and by the mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment opportunity, not to invoke any social action.