What is the best alternative to replace diesel powered generators for producing electricity in small nations?

Answer 1

Wind power, - solar power? ~
Geothermal if available.

Answer 2

This depends on what you consider a small nation, inland or island. If they are running diesel generation now then they probably don't have a location to build a hydro station. Wind is ok if it's constant but is not reliable enough for continual generation. Wave or tidal generation is a possibility but a lot of these nations don't have the funds to purchase this type of technology. The alternative is to run the diesel engine on bio-fuels. Many of these small nations produce a crop of some sort and the left overs could be converted to a fuel . Forget about CO2 production as, like with wood, no more CO2 is released than was first consumed by the plant for which the fuel came from.

Answer 3

This war is a waste of money: The only way to win is to kill, kill and kill untill there's no one left to fight. Don't look at people, just overrun territory and lay waste to everyone there. We are not going to do that. We're just going to keep the stare-down until our leaders have the sense to finally crap or get off the stool. There isn't anything to say clever enough to get everyone to cooperate peacefully. We could develop better power generation and rework to run more things with electricity, but that still will come at a cost. Individuals will not be polluting as much where they are each, but the extra load on power companies will throw out more heat and waste making electricity to be used. That shifts the problem from one set to another. Solar and wind power is cleaner. The sun shines sometimes and the wind blows sometimes, but batteries will have to be a heck of a lot better than they are to work as much as we need them to run trucks, trains, ships and cars. Forget flying with them. Hydrogen fuelcells will have to be fed by better supplies of hydrogen as well, for the same reason. There are break-thoughs slowly improving this. Forty years ago a capacitor which could carry the power needed to run a machine any useful amount of time would have to be bigger than a garbage can- now it can be held in the palm of your hand. It charges up fast and discharges not so fast. That's still not good enough yet. There's so much work to do.

Answer 4

YOU GUYS ARE NUTS !!!

Nuclear for small nations ? most of them don´t even consume the 2GW produced as a baseload and do not have the technology or the political stability required.

Wind, ok but every 1MW of wind has to be backed with 0.7MW gas turbine to suply the energy when there is no wind...
Small hydro power if available is interesting

But most seriously, if you are a small nation, the first rational thing to do is to is to connect your grid with the neighbors, liberalize your market and establish a common electricity market.
The bigger the grid, the lowest the prices and the highes the stability

Answer 5

Run those generators on vegetable oil!

They will run fine and will have a more pleasant exhaust, have a fuel with a closed carbon cycle, and reduce the use of petroleum.

Did I mention it will also save money?

Good luck!

In the winter mix the veggie oil with 10-15% gasoline to thin it out after it has been filtered.

Answer 6

The diesel fueled turbine is the best way to go.

Answer 7

Solar, wind, geothermal, refuse recycling nuclear and wave technology's.
The technology(s) used would be determined by the available natural resources in that country.

Answer 8

Producing energy from waste waters and biologic garbage (biomass). Even more efficient from farms waste.

Answer 9

I've always liked the new/old windmill idea for electricity

Answer 10

How about methane gas there's plenty of crap lying around doing nothing but smelling.