But the conventionalactivatedsludgeprocess technologyhas some shortcomings: long water residencetime, lowprocessingpowerper unitarea, largearea reactor, sludge bulking and so on.
However, a spokesperson for Enron told the BBC that the average price of powerperunit sold to the state government in the last year came to five Rupees and the cost will come down further once the Dabhol Power Co becomes a fully gas-based plant.
But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small powerperunit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.
And the logic works with servers as well as storage, as each device category continues to decrease in size, improve in capacity and performance, and reduce its power consumption perunit of work with each new generation.