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There can be no single alternative to energy source, says TNAU VC

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FOR CLEAN ENVIRONMENT: Students at an exhibition organised on Tuesday in connection with ‘Ecofest ’09’ at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, explaining a model to Vice-Chancellor P. Murugesa Boopathy. —

COIMBATORE: The need for alternative energy source was rekindled in 1970’s with the oil shortage in the United States. Since then, the three most commercially viable sources have been identified to be nuclear, hydroelectric and wind. However, it has to be accepted that there cannot be a single alternative energy source to replace oil, P. Murugesa Boopathy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), said here on Tuesday.

Inaugurating Ecofest ’09, a national students’ symposium, organised by the Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute of the university, he said though wind, water and sun were touted as renewable energy sources that could be cost-effective, the relevant source of energy would depend on the location.

Venkatesh Balan, scientist, Michigan State University, the U.S., said the world was facing an energy crisis. “Forty per cent of the energy requirement of the U.S. comes from crude oil. It has set a target to replace 20 per cent of its fuel requirement with renewable energy by 2017 and 30 per cent by 2020. It has also invested money in public-private partnerships to take the bio-ethanol programmes ahead. India has many lessons to learn from both these countries”.

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