Harnessing energy from fried chicken gases

EcoFriend reports.

At present, we have not been able to tap the full potential of the available alternate sources, and therefore exploring newer ones seems a bit far away. In this context, Yu Chin-hung, from Taiwan, has just found a way to convert all the waste gases from a chicken frying stand into enough energy that will drive a whole chicken cart unit.

The chicken cart system costs about NT$50 000, said Yu Chin-hung, one of the members of the Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology's (CIST) dual-use technology project, Taiwan News writes.

The cart can help reduce gas waste and improve the air quality at night markets, where fried chicken stands are a ubiquitous sight. Other renewable energy technologies unveiled by CIST include the application of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), which is a smart power storage system commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs Department of Industrial Technology (DOI).

The project is aimed at building next-generation electricity saving systems to make the application of renewable energy in Taiwan more widely available. The smart energy storage system can manage and control many forms of renewable energy including wind and solar power, said CIST researcher Liao Yu-min. The energy system can act as a small but mobile electricity system, and when several systems are assembled, can form a power network for disaster relief in outlying islands, remote areas and battlefield communications, and can even be incorporated into city electricity systems, Liao added.