— S Raghunath
It is a matter of pride that New Delhi is playing host to the 12th Congress of the World Energy Forum. An acute global energy crunch is presently at our throats and no doubt, the deliberations of the Congress will have far-reaching implications for the future of mankind.
An official spokesman for the Congress has been filling in newsmen. “The conference has divided itself into various sub-committes and working groups and some of the most exciting insights are emerging from the sub-committee on wind energy.”
“A paper presented by an American delegate says that hot air which is generated during international conferences, seminars, symposia and colloquia and Heads of Govt summits can be harnessed to generate cost-effective and ‘green’ electricity. He has disclosed that American scientists are presently working on installing a pilot plant in the White House West Wing basement to harness the hot air generated during President Bush’s nationally televised addresses to the American people, press conference and fire-side chats with the American people from the Oval office.”
“The plenery session of the UN General Assembly and closed door meetings of the Security Council generate enough hot air to meet the energy requirements of a mid-sized city. Conference and seminar delegates, committee chairpersons, and rappoteurs can emerge as an inexhaustible source of energy to meet mankind’s burgeoning energy needs in the coming years and centuries.”
“The concept being presently worked on is to connect the conference venue to a windmill and we expect a prototype plant to be in operation during the next NAM and SAARC summits.”
“A Finnish delegate has put forward an interesting idea in the technical sub-committee on non-conventional energy sources. He says that conference and agenda papers, position papers, delegates’ roll call, menu cards and bound volumes of proceedings and time-bound recommendations which are presently being tossed into trash cans be retrieved, compacted and burnt and the heat generated used to drive turbines to produce electricity. The unit cost of electricity produced by burning conference papers would be comparable to the unit cost of power produced from hydel and nuclear sources.”
“At any given point in time, an international conference is being held somewhere in the world or the Heads of Govt are meeting for a free, frank and informal exchange of views and the hot air generated during these gathering would be equivalent to 600 billion tonnes of coal and hydrocarbon fuels. This is the most significant and reassuring conclusion to emerge from the ongoing deliberations of the World Energy Forum.” source: assam tribune
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