"With rapid industrialization, the world has seen the development of a number of items or units, which generate heat. Until now this heat has often been treated as a waste, making people wonder if this enormous heat being generated can be transformed into a source of electric power." While different than standard solar energy production, the technology may also greatly improve efficiency in solar energy field,too.
"Energy is harvested in many ways using the car and factory waste. Car and factory waste can be used for generating electricity by coating exhaust pipes with a thin material, which is a millionth time of an inch. Physicists also take advantage of the law of quantum physics, which though not used often enough, gives great results when it comes to generating power from the waste." In other words, this sort of approach to energy development would greatly assists in the recycling of many products and waste products in Oman and around the globe.
Carbon capture and sequestration could certainly be pursued in Oman. Carbonate Formation of the Samail Ophiolite is found in Oman near the surface: it could help reduce the effects of climate change globally. While this does not produce alternative energy, global energy and environmental sector investors would welcome the development of this industry by the Omani regime. Moreover, citizens of the world and our grandchildren would be thankful.
Solar fuelsSolar fuels are the practice (and ideas) of converting sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into usable chemical energy--that can be stored like gasoline for extended periods of time--has long been a tantalizing target for scientists. This is again an area where Oman's nascent chemical industry could play a great role. This should be an area of great investment in Oman, too. Solar fuels involved taking carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere and splitting off carbon atoms from those molecules. Then, by breaking hydrogen atoms off from water, you use that carbon and hydrogen to create hydrocarbons--the same chemical entities that make up the fossil fuels we use today.
Finally, governments in Oman and in Kansas need also to help with infrastructure and logistics of sharing new alternative energies. They need to specifically encourage the creation of alternative energy trading and investment options: "yieldcos"--public companies designed specifically to purchase renewable energy assets with lengthy contracts--have begun to play a larger role.
MORE THOUGHTS
In the subsequent article in this series, I will discuss and compare more the roles of education in development in both Kansas and Oman--in the past and in the future. This is important because in all of the areas of science and education, Kansas (smaller than Oman) dwarfs Oman, due to Oman's late modern developmental take-off, dating only back one or two generations now. Oman is still behind all of its GCC partners in terms of capital spent on primary and secondary education. It is also not doing so well in tertiary education.
Oman has continued to improve in these areas--and in adult and tertiary education & training, but it needs to do better.
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