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| ZL Wang with Nano generator |
Today
power sector is expanding leaps and bounds to meet the demand due to the
modernized lifestyle and also improvement in the living conditions of people
around the world. We are so much dependent on electricity that the improvement
of living conditions of people can be correlated to their percapita energy
consumption. A country’s development can also be judged by the power
infrastructure prevailing there. To achieve this, a lot of dedicated research
is being carried out to investigate different modes of generating power and
also to raise the efficiency of equipment already in operation. Let us forget
for a moment about the breakthroughs in the large scale methods of generating
power and focus on the portable and easy to adopt technologies that generate
power on a lower scale but have a huge impact when it is seen in a global view.
Lot of research in the world’s reputed labs are inclined towards giving the
power generating capability for every individual so that they can generate part
of the power they need by themselves and to some extent become independent of
the conventional power that we obtain through transmission lines. To be
realistic, we cannot completely rule out the bulk power generating stations from
the picture but instead we can reduce our dependency on them. This approach
reduces the power consumption from the grid systems and can indirectly reduce
the emissions to a smaller extent at the generating station.
