RENEWABLE ENERGY
Electricity can be generated form a variety of sources including
wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro and
bio-mass. Renewable
energy in the form of ethanol (gasohol) and bio-diesel for fuel
also has a huge potential for meeting our future energy
requirements.
Synergy focuses on large, infrastructure projects with
particular focus on hydro-electricity and
biomass. We
are actively pursuing projects that offer an alternative
to fossil fuels such as ethanol from corn and/or
sugarcane and bio-diesel.
Hydro-electricity
When using water to generate electricity, two things
dictate the success and productivity of the site:-
Head. This is the vertical drop that is available for
the water to develop pressure (potential energy) that
can be converted into kinetic energy and then
electricity by the turbines.
Flow. The availability of water consistently to supply
the turbines. Typically a reservoir is used to regulate
the flow between the dry and wet season. Finding a site
that has consistent rainfall is key to keeping the
reservoir small and minimizes the environmental impact
of the project.
Synergy is currently developing the
Amaila Falls
Hydro-Electric Project (AFHEP) in
Guyana, South America.
Bio-Mass
The potential to use bio-mass from animal waste, to
rice mill waste, to wood waste all offer tremendous
potential to meeting our supplementing our seeming
insatiable demand for electricity. Using wood waste from
sawmills, plywood factories, lumbering operations or
even a self-regenerating tree farm offers an excellent
source of converting wood waste to electricity. In this
type of energy plant the wood is used as fuel for the
boilers that then generate steam to turn the turbine,
generating electricity.
An alternative method of using bio-degradable waste is
to gasify the fuel (wood rice husk, etc) and use the
gasification process on a continuous basis to supply an
internal combustion engine that has been modified to run
on this type of fuel. Many developmental plants using
this promising technology are being tested and Synergy
is working on its own prototype with strategic partners. |
