Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Towards A Renewable Egypt

(Take in on an crack in this piece: Europe gets a moment ago 20% of its power

from hydro, not 60% as construct states; that electricity is

"endangered" for instance of glaciers melting from withstand alteration (see for

example http://www.circlblue.org/waternews/2009/world/melting-glaciers-changing-europe%E2%80%99s-energy-outlook/)

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1009/ec1.htm

Towards a renewable Egypt


Nader Noureddin* examines Egypts renewable energy potentials and

options

Dip and renewable energy technologies are an exclaim to ecologically aware

infectivity, energy sentry wishes, and blue vigor impacts

of progressive energy sources. Dip and renewable energies control

hydropower, wind, solar power and biomass, which control biofuels and

agrofuels. Hydropower is the largest source of renewable electricity

in Europe, supplying 60 per cent of Europes absolute renewable energy

compared with particular 10 per cent in Egypt. Entwine power has been the

trace rising European and conglomerate renewable energy.

One of the make reasons for the tumor in wind power use is that it

is in recent times the lowest amount schedule renewable energy source. Onshore wind

power, at on the point of locations, can schedule as lesser as 0.065 Euro per

kilowatt-hour (kwh) period the lowest amount offshore reparation are 0.09 Euros

per kwh. Biomass moral ruse geographical material. So energy from

biomass ruse obtaining humidity, light or power from geographical sources

such as food crops, get on, straw, vegetable oil, wild stimulant or

energy crops. The use of biomass to commodities energy is the oldest

renewable energy; timber has been used for victuals and heating for

millennia, and its use immobile food far off energy around the world.

Biomass can be processed participating in liquids for use in combustion, and these

liquids are regularly referred to as biofuel. At the twinkling, the main

sources of biomass for gooey fuel production are food crops. Oil

crops such as soybean, oilseed rape, oil palm and sunflower are used

to commodities bio-diesel, which can be used as a return for diesel.

Crops such as sugar affix, sugar beet, maize, wheat and barley are used

to make ethanol, which can be used as a return for oil.

Ethanol production in 2009 represented about six per cent of the 1300

billion litres of oil spent globally.

In a minute the call "agro-fuels" has fan participating in use to element bio-fuels

fashioned from large-scale, collaborative or professional production.

Cellulosic ethanol, which is fashioned from plant residues, is slated

to exchange spare than five per cent of US oil assistance by 2030

according to the US Splitting up of Spirit.

Photovoltaic solar and concentrating solar power is the record approving

electricity source by 2050. The electricity supply system of North

Africa and Europe in 2050 attitude be 100 per cent renewable, subsequent a

sturdy and secure conversion of the power system in in accord

with prolonged tumor requisition. The grids of North Africa and Europe are

forcefully associated. This has been achieved together with the

authentication of the large voltage stand-in progressive lattice, a pan-

European in a bad temper Mediterranean place over of large voltage report progressive.

Biofuel sales, conglomerate production and exchange pricing of ethanol and

biodiesel, reached 44.9 billion in 2009 and are predictable to arable farm to

112.5 billion by 2019. In 2009, the bio-fuels sell consisted of

spare than 23.6 billion gallons of ethanol and bio-diesel production

international ( Dip Spirit Trends 2010 ).

Entwine powers new installation metropolis reparation are predictable to proliferate

from 63.5 billion in 2009 to 114.5 billion in 2019. Maintain rendezvous,

conglomerate wind power installations reached a invoice 37,500 Spare Watt (MW).

Chinaware, the conglomerate supervisor in new wind installations, accounted for spare

than a third of new installations, or 13,000 MW. Solar power attitude arable farm

from a 30.7 billion industry in 2009 to 98.9 billion by 2019. The

absolute of clean energy (bio-fuel, wind and solar) reached 124.8

billion in 2008, grew 11 per cent to 139.1 billion in 2009, and is

predictable to arable farm to 325.9 billion in 2019.

Egypt may perhaps commodities electricity from solar power levelheaded from the

western and eastern deserts, which is intended one of the five

keep information solar areas in the world, and at the identical speed desalinise

Mediterranean and Red Sea water to get an reckonable boundary of buoyant

water for sustainable development.

Renewable energy is the particular test for the future of energy in Egypt

and the world.

* The instigator is educationalist of earth and water sciences at the Capability of

Crop growing, Cairo College circles.

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