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More Update Post: 04_29_2008;
06_11_2008; 05_28_2009
Factors that bring alternative energy
sources adoption considerations to the forefront have
always been slightly different. Yet, two primary categories of
considerations have always impacted the issue. Often though the
driving force is the high cost of crude oil and the preference of
the western world to be independent of foreign countries with
regards to such critical resource, as a matter of National Security.
Recently, though another issue has become a driving force: Global
Warming.
With respect to the significance of the
initial driving forces, the preference of the Western Countries to
energy-independent from foreign countries is a sufficient, though
not necessary, criteria. A unified development process, however,
makes this criteria preferable. Efforts to develop technologies that
satisfy the initial criteria resulted in the competing simultaneous
development of several technologies. However, with the intrusion of
the global warming an additional dimension of consideration has made
an incursion into the criteria set: The need to ensure that the
adopted energy source does not generate the greenhouse gases.
Efforts to remedy the global warming impact have also resulted in
the development of new technologies. A rational consideration
therefore
would include considerations
of technologies that
are integrations of other technologies
targeted at the initial concerns as well as the technologies
developed to remedy global warming.
Energy Source Adoption
Factors
Several sources of energy are used
most commonly and are generally said to be
conventional energy
sources. Each of these conventional
fossil fuel energy sources has its unique characteristics: The
collective characteristics of these fossil fuel conventional energy
sources, within the context of use, defines the "Source Adoption
Factors Criteria" that any other energy source must have in
order
to be considered as a
viable source for potential adoption.
However, in light of the
other issues that now obtains and serve as drivers for the
investigation of alternative energy sources, the above set of
criteria
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which obtain as derivative of the use of the conventional energy
sources are now augmented with factors that address those additional
factors of consideration. The collective of factors
that now obtains is documented in categories in Tables 1 a, b, & c, for better
elicitation of significance.
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Table
1.a Adoption Use-Factors |
- Portability
- Storability,
- Fluidity,
- Low
flammability,
- Fuel Energy Density,
- Stability of
Availability
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Table 1.b Adoption Societal-Factors |
- Prospective Land-Use Demand
- Food Demands
- Energy Source Carbon Footprint: Kyoto Protocol Compliance
- Environmental Factors
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Table 1.c Adoption Technology Factors |
- Production Energy Cost,
- Stability of
Availability.- year-round
- well defined
extraction process,
- quality of supply
- Proximity of raw materials
- Production cycle
- Quality of supply and refining
capacity
- Performance Enhancement Demands
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The adoption factors listed
in Table 1.a are generally abstracted out of a review of the various
modes of current usage of the fossil fuels in general and the
physical characteristics of gasoline, in particular. These are
somewhat self-evident characteristic, determinable from
consideration
of lifestyle, of the world
populace. At a minimum these criteria, currently both determinate
and non-determinate, constitute the requirements which are to be assessed against an augmented pool of
energy sources that must now include the
alternative energy
sources.
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The consideration in this analysis therefore has the object of
continually putting the actions of the world bodies in perspective
and context as well as eliciting, in the opinion of the
participating analysts, approaches that may effectively constitute a
strategy for accomplishing the overall objective to the
welfare of humanity. Evolving this strategy however requires a
thorough consideration of the various technologies that have been
developed over the years towards the determination of the efficacious alternative energy source for the
alternative fuel quest and then from among them constructing an
organic solution that is both incremental and at the same time
efficacious. It is hoped that this advocacy analytical report will
help shed some light on the considerations of all energy sources for
alternative fuel within the context the prevailing global warming.
The reality is that although the governments of the various
countries are now concerned with policy considerations even as was
attested to by the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Meeting, the concerns
are somewhat not yet universally obvious.
Energy Source Adoption-Impact Analyses
The impact of each of the
energy sources on the welfare of society, of course, is important
towards its sustained adoption as the preferred source of energy.
This impact is better understood through the comprehensive analyses of the impact
of the energy source on every conceivable aspect of society. To that end, an analysis of the adoption
technologies, and the impacts analyses of each of these technologies
is essential as a first step in performing comprehensive impact
analyses. The limitations and advantages of each of these
technologies however can be better understood from a thorough
analysis. Of course, such analysis must also be analyzed in itself
within the Economic and Econometric factors at play in the adoption
of the energy source.
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