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`Focus on renewable energy sources'
Our Bureau
Kolkata
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Aug. 29
The long term national energy policy should focus more on the generation of power from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, bio-fuels and hydrogen instead of depending largely on coal. Although beneficiated clean coal can be used after separation of carbon from it, the Senior Executive Board Member of the US Department of Energy, Mr Mark Ginsberg, said that the capacity expansion of nuclear power was not advisable because it was costly and at the same time, the nuclear waste disposal was a hazardous job.
Mr Ginsberg said although nuclear power contributed to about 20 per cent of the total US' generation, top-level decision makers in America favoured the proposal of expanding the generation capacity from renewable energy sources. In fact, the US President has already decided to enhance spending on the expansion of capacity from solar and wind power. An amount of $3.4 billion had been earmarked for developing solar and wind energy sector. Moreover, bio-fuels were being developed to replace about 70 per cent import of oil by the US.
Speaking at an interactive session on "Energy solutions can lead to new prosperity" organised here by the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr Ginsberg said that hydrogen as well as bio-fuel like ethanol were likely to play a major role in the 21st century as alternative sources of fuel.
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