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As the cost of energy
has risen rather sharply around the world, many citizens have taken
to producing their own fuel for automobiles and in the cold
countries also home heating fuel. Often though such production
systems are not very well engineered and there are potential risks
associated with such production operations. Yet most of the citizens
undertake the occasionally harmful projects as a matter of
necessity. Even so some of those projects could be made safer with
access to more structured and well engineered approach to their
development and implementation. Those projects can be developed and
implemented along the lines of laboratory Scale
Distributed Power Technologies for the consumer use.
Two areas where consumers have
ventured into rather aggressively are the
biofuels
and biodiesel technologies and
home heaters technologies. Both of these segments as such are worthy
of consumer level engineered products for adoption. Of course, that does not
mean that the products already out there are not good or that there
are not even products for the consumers, rather those products that
are out there can be deployed in approaches similar to corporate
type uses that the consumer can virtually own and operate energy
technologies that are implemented at very high skills levels and yet
be suitable for installation within the basement or the backyard.
In this regards, engineering
analysis of various concept technologies based on engineered uses of
the technologies currently in the markets for consumers should help
increase the energy generation capacity of the
consumer to meet the necessary needs. Effectively concept designs
based on readily available products are being developed and posted
here for the taking by interested consumer-developers only for
individual uses only. In an effort to ensure that the technologies
are for the public, these concepts may be submitted for protection
under appropriate intellectual property rights declared for the
general use. |
The
biofuel technology
which
includes ethanol and biodiesel production will be extensively
developed for the needs and lifestyles of consumers. Also the
Solar
power technologies focusing mostly on solar thermal energy
technologies for consumer will be extensively developed. In each of
these technologies categories the object is to take existing
consumer products and build on those to further enhance the capacity
of the consumer to generate large quantities of technologies.
Of course, such technologies
will also cost the consumer a little more than the ordinary, given
that the consumer may first have to buy the existing
technology-products. So to the extent that cost may be an issue,
these technologies may have to be borne by consumer groups or
communities; and in all reality the technologies may be somewhat
better suited for the use of communities than individuals but
such decision are open to be made by the consumers.
The design rationale for the
biofuel technologies illustrate the scale of the planned
technologies. Specifically, though most of the technologies on
green alcohols production has focused on seemingly industrial
type fermentations:
Packed Bed Biofilm Reactor, and
Multi-Packed Bed Reactors; these reactors can just as well be
scaled for the use of the consumer with minimal of maintenance needs
or supervisory use. This then defines the object of the consumer
energy technologies analysis thrust developing from here.
Yet development of Portable
Energy Technologies for the consumer homeowner whether for
automobile fuel
or home use energy is impacted by several factors,
some of which are the lifestyle, general conversances with technical
products, space requirements, feed sources to sustain operations,
amongst others; and if power is required to support the energy
technologies then the source of power also becomes a factor.
Actually the object of such portable technologies is low cost and
self-containment, which means that |
preferably the portable energy
technology must be designed to bootstrap itself. In this regards the
development must be based on sound specifications that may be virtually
uniformly suitable for all homes, and for just about about every
level of education standard of the person.
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