Waste to energy plant - a truly renewable sustainable set up (municipal incinerator cum power plant)

Savings from oil and coal importation

I just met an experienced technician who knows how to make incinerator.  I just learned that he just completed a municipal incinerator.   Disposing off garbage in landfills does not seem to be a viable option any more.  We are running out of landfills.  And you cant have sanitary landfill.  It would be always polluting.  Have you experienced smelled leaching from a landfill?

By installing a heat exchanger and/or heat recovery system, the heat generated can generate electricity from a steam turbine.

But recycling and burning other excess waste can be workable. 

Will the major cities (50+ of them) see the light.  Will this be ppp project?        

Marine energy - energy from waves, tides

Savings from oil and coal importation

Waves, tides go on and on daily and is wasted .  From govt grant, a research and development on conversion of wave motion to electricity, up to 300 kwh is being tested.   This could work well in places like Philippines which is composed of island to solve grid problem and electrical transmission.  

This is an area that can be investigated and be an investment opportunity.

SMR (Small Modular Reactors) - a renewable energy source being overlooked?

Savings from oil and coal importation

One of the sources of energy being overlooked is nuclear energy.  It serves the purpose of lessening carbon emission, solves the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy.

But people are wary of dangers  the meltdown from nuclear power plants as seen at Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Mile Long Island.  But SMR can be an answer.  They are assembled in a factory transported in trucks and then installed on site  The problem of nuclear waste has been reduced. 

Other downsides are:    large capex for its production, long construction period, 

Many countries like France use a lot of nuclear energy.    Pres. BBM is pushing for the SMRs

Shall we learn to accept SMR

Energy storage systems

When we talk about energy storage, what usually comes to mind is battery system.  But there are various ways by which energy can be stored aside from battery:

1.  Heat storage via  salt, sand

2.  Storage via kinetic energy and gravity

3.  Hydraulic system as in Caliraya:     When there is excess power, a pump is driven bring water up to the lake dam, and when power is scarce, the water is released to generate power.   With all the power generated, how do you balance this vs. demand

Which is better - wind or solar?

 Which is better - wind is solar?  The debate goes on and on   It is better to  have them hybrid.  

But hybrid wont work, if there is no wind, or there are days when there is no sunlight.   

Which is cheaper -  wind or solar.   Which is better - rooftop system or centralized system.