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Are YOU a small FARMER without ENERGY? 
Do YOU live OFF-GRID in a RURAL area?
What are YOUR PAINS?
- Can not you earn money with your farming activity?
- Can not your children make their homework at night, without light?
- Can not you heat your rural hospital at winter?
What are YOUR CLAIMS?
- Is the electrical line too far, impossible to connect?
- Is the fuel generator consumption very expensive monthly?
- Are Renewable Energies still too expensive to invest?
What do you want to GAIN?
- To learn when Rural Renewable Energies are profitable?
- To share practical stories of Farmers using Renewable Energies, earning money?
- To invest Renewable Energy at a low cost, finding professionals, companies and products ?
What is my modest proposal?
- I want to learn the right use of small Renewable Energies in Rural areas, specially off-grid.
- I want to understand the Farmers energy needs and Agribusiness processes.
- I want to lead a worlwide online Community of Farmers & Rural users and Renewable experts ready to ask, listen and share.
Who am I?
I have been entrepreneur and manager in different types of companies, with a degree of MBA. Since 2004 I have started to know the renewable energies in an installer company and also as a renewable energies distributor. Now I have a web project to build a marketplace of small renewable energies for rural and agricultural purposes.
Posts in Español and English (sorry for translations!). Comments in Français, Portuguese and Catala.
Don’t fear, smart solutions are everywere! Let’s try all toghether to Explore, to be Entrepreneur and to become Enthusiastic about Rural Renewable Energies to solve Farmers pains!!
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- Screening Africa’s renewable energies potential (eurekalert.org)
- How 1.6 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day afford renewables (grist.org)
Primeramente, muchísimas gracias a usted por crear este blog y por compartir estas buenas informaciones. Particularmente, aprecio la información técnica que se incluyó en cado artículo. Me ha hecho pensar más en rol que juege la energía renovable en la producción agrícola.
I AM A KENYAN GRADUATE TEACHER OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME -ECONOMICS. I NEED TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAMME HOW CAN I APPLY FOR POSTS IN THE ORGANISATION
You can click the button “Follow Rural Renewable Energies” via email and also following my twitter account.
You can use my posts, telling the source, please.
It could be great if you propose posts to be publish on this topic!!
With a few entpecioxs, this article is almost complete nonsense. The root problem with solar was, is, and will be, for a long time, extremely expensive cost. All cost studies are relative, compared to what? Since solar is inherently expensive, if you jack up the cost of its competitors, solar begins to look attractive. Unfortunately, somebody has to carry this increased cost. If, .. your system could be largely paid for by the government, slimming your payback period on solar to 2-5 years. it means your tax bill must go up. Solar suffers from basic technical limitations. It sprang from the invention of chips, the size of a pea. It must scale up to square miles to power a city. Scaling up energy causes a myriad of problems; it is the reason why flash light batteries are not as big as mountains.I give a few points to the author. Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, John Connally (one time Governor of Texas) , and a few others secretly met in a hotel room in Washington D.C. long ago and plotted how to stick it to the public and pour oceans of money over Texas oilmen., their supporters. No reason, just greed. America institutionalized this rip off; there is no reason to do it again for Texas solar panels, ethanol, or anybody else’s whiz bang technology.I never heard of the Stanford University professors, but I have engineered a score of nukes, two score of fossil fuel power plants, and spent over a decade assessing advanced technology. After over forty years of engineering, there is one constant judgment on alternative energy technologies, In ten years they will be competitive. There are trillions of dollars of investment money waiting for hard proof. Not words.
Quincy, I agree in some of your opinions, but not all. It is true that solar panels are still expensive and public grants are limited. But there are two tendencies that will change the profitability: oil will continue to increase and solar photovoltaics will continue to reduce price. So, in off-grdi areas will be profitable. Even now against a fuel generator in some cases.
ANY JOBS IN EAST AFRICA REGION?
Not yet. In some months I will have proposals for freelance online.
Fact: Burning methane is a good idea, it is in itlsef a potent greenhouse gas – 25 times worse than CO2; does not hang around for very long, 50 years or so vs 200 years for CO2, but we don’t have 50 years.This is misleading. When combusted, CH4 produces CO2. CO2 does not disappear from the flux in 200 years. The long tail of CO2 means that about 7% of the CO2 being emitted as I type these lines will still be moving between the various atmospheric, marine and terrestrial sinks 50kyr from now. Silicate weathering and other processes will eventually remove it, but these are very slow indeed. That’s the main reason that atmospheric and marine inventories are increasing.The sinks themselves are not yet saturated of course, and that’s a good thing but they are a finite resource and we aren’t exactly clear how long they will continue to absorb at their current rate. In the meantime, as is widely known, the seas are becoming less basic and this is having consequences for phytoplankton, coccolithophores etc not good.It is true that combusting methane as an alternative to harvesting and combusting coal is relatively rational. That’s not the same as saying that it is adequate in the long run especially if this methane is methane that would have remained (or could have remained) in the ground if we hadn’t dug it up and burned it.So combusting methane from landfills or gassy mines (that we are determined must operate anyway) or other decomposing matter great. Methane from fracking? Horrible.
A few facts might help the dbetae Huggybunny@3 no, CSM is not mostly hydrogen as its name suggests (Coal Seam Methane) it is almost entirely methane. It is a very clean burning fuel.Linmhall @9 CSM is very dry gas there is virtually no condensate. Condensate is heavier hydrocarbons that are liquid at ambient temperatures and pressures (c6+)All CSM/CSG is not shale gas. Coal Seam Methane/Gas is very different to Shale gas completely different production methods. All coal has gas in it the trick is to reduce the hydrostatic pressure by pumping water out from around the coal seam and then the gas will flow it is virtually all methane. Shale gas is similar to natural gas but is contained in shale rock rather than conventional sandstone reservoirs. The trick here is to fracc’ the rock to allow the gas to escape. There is usually no fraccing for coal seams.Coal seam gas is one of the most environmentally friendly energy soureces we have got replacing coal fired power generation with coal seam gas fired power would go a long way to Australia meeting its greehouse gas abatement objectives it might even go all the way!
Solar power could easily do it. Solar panles on every roof could provide for nearly all of our power needs. If that isn’t enough, we could follow the Japanese idea of using solar energy collecting satellites and transferring that energy to collection dishes on the surface via lasers or microwaves. We could convert old offshore oil rigs into these collection stations in order to minimize the destruction of property and loss of life in the event of a misfire.There are lots of ideas to replace fossil fuels. We just need to remember that Can Do, pioneering spirit of our ancestors.
Chanchira, thanks for comment! There is really a wide range of innovation in renewable energies. But they have to be realist and profitable at the end.
As a member of an association in Marocco, for all the farmers of dates and palm trees, i want to irrigate their farms and lamds. The surface area is 3-5 hectars and the deepness of the water is from 10-13 meters. Please find a solution for users to buy.
Thanks Tarik. The best should be solar PV panels reaching 380-400 Volts with trifasic water pumps, and the power (Wp) of all panels according the available local pumps. You should ask local suppliers, explaining your needs in Litres/time and the total high (deepness of the well + highness of the tank). And if you want to have a tank or it is direct irrigation.
wonderful post, very informative. I wonder why the other experts of this sector do not notice this. You must continue your writing. I am sure, you have a great readers’ base already!
leo estos articulos desde hace ya algun tiempo y la verdad es que aportan interesante informacion, enhorabuena por el sitio.
a combination of solar and wind could podivre the energy needed, if properly implemented in a system that didn’t waste energy something like 50 percent of the energy we create is never used, it’s just lost in our inefficient energy grids upgrade the grids and that’s 50 percent less energy we need to create of course, it would be very expensive on the front end, but once it was developed and in place, it would be nice of course, we may need to use some oil and coal as the process is implemented probably over 50 years but it would be a nice direction to start heading in
Hello Alegna, thanks for comment! It is true renewable energy is not easy to optimize. It can not compite in cost again electricity from the mains, but they can compite now against a fuel generator in an off-grid house.