Sweet Potatoes to Replace Oil and Uranium
A Japanese professor is recommending use of sweet potatoes for generation of electricity.
According to his calculation, it is possible to replace uranium fuel and fossil fuel for providing electricity for Japan with sweet potatoes to be grown in Japan.
Professor of Kinki University Takahiro Suzuki estimates that 20 kg of sweet potatoes can become fuel to generate 10 kWh of power which is equivalent to an mount of electricity consumed by an ordinary household per day. He also emphasizes that sweet potatoes can be produced at lower costs and in a larger quantity than other plants for fuels such as corns and algae.
As Japan produced, before the Fukushima Daiichi accident of 2011, electricity of 280 billion kWh in nuclear power plants, the amount of sweet potatoes to replace this nuclear energy is 560 million tons. By adding electricity produced by all the electric power plants using fossil fuels to this amount, the amount of electricity becomes 870 billion kWh which can be replaced by 1.74 billion tons of sweet potatoes.
Fortunately there are 400,000 hectares of rice fields which are currently not used for rice production due to a Japanese Government policy of cutting rice acreage. If we cultivate sweet potatoes in these idle farmlands, we can harvest 1.8 billion tons of sweet potatoes that can cover the above specified 1.74 billion tons.
As Japan spends $200 billion to import crude oil and other forms of fossil fuels, sweet potatoes can greatly improve the balance of trade of Japan.
Of course this method of using sweet potatoes for power generation can apply to any countries that want to reduce an mount of CO2 emission.
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