Rural Renewable Energies for Farmers. Albert Campi’s blog.
I am interested in YOU, who live or work in RURAL areas with ENERGY problems
I want to hear your energy needs, especially if you’re not connected to the electrical grid, as well as meet and learn from your experiences on energy in agricultural processes. The blog is aimed at:
- Farmers and ranchers
- Forestry, fisheries and aquaculture
- Agribusiness
- Any person or group who lives in the country or works in rural activities without access to energy.
I am convinced that renewable energies are profitable when they are well adapted to agricultural and rural needs
You just have to delve into the consumption of each activity and the natural resources (sun, wind, biomass, etc) available in each area. We can obtain:
- Electricity: photovoltaic, small wind, small hydro.
- Heat: solar thermal, biomass, biogas.
- Fuels: biodiesel and bioethanol.
- Heat + Electricity + Cold: There are a variety of technologies and / or combinations of renewable energy to generate any need for energy.
I will publish in this blog small-scale renewable energy, economically viable, easy to install and especially suited to rural areas.
When are renewable energies profitable in agricultural or rural use?
This is precisely my goal in this blog, bringing together two different worlds that do not just see both sides: rural activities vs renewable energies.
I just want rural and agricultural users understand that some renewable energies may be the solution for your case. It should be great if you can explain your success story.
And I would like all renewable energy professionals or manufacturers realize the big rural market is ready to develop a lot in coming years, specially in isolated systems and agribusiness processes.
I’m satisfied with this. I hope to pique your interest with the same passion that motivates me to share how to improve the lives of farmers through renewable energy.
Warm regards.
Albert
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First, its all a guess but the sun will ctinnoue to shine for about another 2-4 billion years. So for all practical purposes, its eternal.Solar energy depends on sunshine, one disadvantage is cloudy, overcast, rainy, snow etc. days. No sunshine, no real energy. Another difficulty is converting solar energy, solar panels generate direct current (DC) and this has to be converted to AC current to run appliances, etc. in your house. In order to store solar energy, batteries are required, so the DC current from the solar panels can charge the batteries, and then the DC current must be converted to AC.Solar panels are not cheap but the price is coming down. They also don’t last forever and can be damaged by hail, etc.The good news is, solar energy is clean, not pollution except for the manufacture of the panels and for the moment, sunshine is still free.
No one alternative ergeny production scheme is going to provide 100% of your needs this is why you MUST evaluate the resources of your area. For example here in the Des Moines, Iowa area wind is our principle green ergeny resource followed by sun. There are a few but not many cloudy, windless days. We in the midwest, are considered the Saudia Arabia of wind power generation. When a system is constructed where the components complement eachother then you have the best of both worlds!
Ali, thanks for comment! You have pointed a very important topic: to evaluate the resources of your area (wind, sun, water, biomass, etc). That’s the “fuel” for renewable energies!
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A huge hub of information for farmers, gardeners and nature conscious peeps! Enjoy!
Sun is the future of energy in the tropics.Another biogas especially in schools and towns.policy makers should come up with policies that enhance this.