Unsuitable Bananas used in Queensland Power Plant
Australia
Monday 12 March 2007
An Australian engineering equipment has created a generator ELT that uses bananas disturbed like power plant. From this invention they study to construct a power station able to give electricity to means thousand of houses.
A third of the 20,000 tons of banana annual harvest of the State of Queensland is lost because the fruits or is too small or presents/displays damages. Before such waste, the planters went to the professor of engineering of the University of Queensland Bill Clarke to see what utility could give the unsuitable bananas. And the solution that was happened to him to Clarke was to use them like power plant. "In the zone there are many banana trees and can be a great renewable power plant", indicated the engineer.
The method consists of leaving bananas them are disturbed in vasijas sealed. The gas methane that gives off is the one that puts into operation the electrical turbine. "The next February will know if the bananas are a viable source of energy in cost terms", it indicated Clarke. If it is thus, the industry of the banana of Queensland will study the construction of an energy plant.
The problem that has the project is the amount of bananas that are needed. "60 kilos of bananas are required about so that a household-electric one as a ventilator works during 30 hours", needed Clarke.