ALTERNATE ENERGYenergy : idea 1

Small power plants can be set up in rural areas using dried wild plants like thorny bushes and even Parthenium, which grow by themselves and are really a nuisance to other useful crops. They can be cut at the bottom by villagers and left to dry in the sun. They can then be chopped up in a simple machine which can be moved from place to place. The shredded dried plants can be briquetted or fed as such to a boiler to produce steam which will drive a turbine generator. The power can be directly used by villages and industry located nearby or fed into the grid. Further research is to be done by measuring the amount of dried wood that can be obtained from say 100 acres of wastelands.

Determine the minimum amount of land that will be required to service a 100 KVA unit. Then the feasibility and economics can be worked out.