Team:ECUST/HP/Hp/Interview1
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we had never been stop reflecting on the environment we live, we had never been stop thinking about what can we do to make this world better.
Tangled problems
Will the traditional energy go to an end? Will that day be the end of the humanity? And till then, what will happen? We held these concerns and paid a visit to doctor Xu qingli, veteran professor in school of resources and environmental engineering also the expert in Production of bio oil and its biomass pyrolysis.
“as for traditional energy, China is not that urgent in coal, maybe because they can still support us, I mean, at least for our country, to use 100 years. the biggest problem that we encountered is not the resource depletion, but the pollution ensuing.”
One
“When we talked about the current situation of the environment and environmental protection in China, he shared the different views. “Haze, for example, the notorious criminal in china, the state had shut down a lot of Manufacturers, but this will not solve the fundamental problem, what’s worse, this will lead to the bankruptcy of the small businesses especially those in the villages. The economy has been greatly affected under this circumstances.”
Two
New energy faced the dawn
“We briefed our initial idea about the light harvester and asked him if he had ant insights in the new energy development, he should great interest. He said:” with the development of science and technology, If the new energy goes more practical, it will certainly be able to solve this problem, but now the new energy itself faced more problems than the traditional energy did.”
One
“Today's new energy development trend is to use ethanol instead of gasoline, and there are series of new energy powers, such as water power generation, photovoltaic power generation, wind power, biomass power generation. The state to implement the policy, that by 2020, a new gasoline which consists of 10% ethanol with 90% gasoline mixed, must be use to replace the current pure gasoline.”
Two
“However, China as a populous country, there is no so much food for ethanol production, this is one problem. Water power is the most stable and most practical new energy power generation, but the total generation quantities is quite limited. Wind power is known as “garbage electricity”, because of it is greatly impact by the environment (wind). It is very unstable, and residents can not have electricity for a while and then powered off when there are no windy days. Photovoltaic power generation there are many problems, the first photoelectric conversion efficiency is low, about 10%, followed by the equipment used in the production of crystal plate and its serious pollution. It cost lots of lands and room to build up one, so its is not the idealistic one, either. ”
One
“The advantage lied in the environmental protection, but the power it generated can only be a period of time for some time, because mostly the biomass power generation is the use of straw, if the season when the straw is running out, you can only temporarily stop. so do this business is also very difficult to profit, can only rely on state subsidies, and sell carbon dioxide emissions to other enterprises.”
Two
Fantastic energy where to find
There are many reasons for us to choose the “light harvester” as our project, and we confirmed this thought after this conversation.
Professor Xu added, “your project is quite interesting, the photosynthetic bacteria are favorable candidates for biological hydrogen production, it seemed that the all the green energy generation has a bright future, but actually you young scientist still have a long way to go.”
