COIMBATORE: Today's advances in communication technologies and their applications along with information technologies provide a very enabling environment for the contemporary student enthusiasts who are keen to create a cleaner and cooler earth, S. Gomathinayagam, Executive Director, Centre for Wind Energy Technology, Chennai, said here on Sunday.
Delivering the graduation day address at Park College of Engineering and Tekhnology, he said the concept to commercialising needed younger minds and innovative thinking and virtual proto-typing in the case of expensive processes.
“Developmental frontiers in renewable energy involve highly inter-disciplinary marriage of multiple areas of science and engineering.
Wind power, which is the most sought after renewable energy, has several overlapping areas which are relevant for rural, sustainable development of clean energy engineering,” Mr. Gomathinayagam said.
Electricity was the mainstay for energy for multi-purpose and versatile usage. If mankind did not unduly alter the natural processes, then the effects of climate change would automatically be minimised, he said.
“As per the Renewables 2010 Global Status Report REN21, the total renewable energy is about 19 per cent of the global energy consumption of which wind keeps dominating in electricity generation and other renewable energies are from solar, bio-mass, hydro, tidal, waste to energy and party from geo-thermal,” he said.
Wind was the most preferred renewable energy for grid connected electricity generation. At present, India was in the fifth position after China, the U.S., Germany and Spain.
Pointing out that no branch of engineering / technology or science was inferior to the other, he said in reality there were highly inter-disciplinary. India had already challenged the world in the information technology and manufacturing sector, but there was a need for Indians to be Copyright holders of designs, software, and technologies. P.V. Ravi, Chairman of the college, spoke.
