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| Energy Policy of Thailand |
Author: a watcher
Date: 1 Sept 2548 09:17
I cruised through many Thai dailies about Thai Energy Situation.
I found some faults on the policy as follows :
1. Many academics are able to summerize the globla energy situation but they fail to make suggestions what Thailand have to do.
2. Thai Rath Editors pinpointed PTT is no longer the public agency to protect the people but for the shareholders including the powerful policians.
3. Thailand has still unclear energy policy and the promotion of renewable, alternative energy is pretty uncertain.
4. EGAT may fall into the same category as PTT is now in.
EGAT is no longer able to protect people's interest.
I like to add more right knowledge on above four topics as one of the professionals working the field.
A.
Nuclear Energy resource is not limited to 83 years but unlimited.
The technology of nuclear fission is now arriving to directly use U238 with heavy water reactor vessel, to assure freer fuel resourcing and cheaper plant construction. The centrifuge technique of U235 from the condensate U238 is now widely available technology as well as U239, Plutonium recovery and renewable technology. However such technology is in cafeful stay as today political impasses in nuclear power. Future humanbeing can solve such problems.
Uranium ore is still sleeping in immense reserves though not proven yet, Siberia, China west, Austrailia and many part of Africa and Latin America.
B. It is not Chinese secret technology to use ocean tidal wave power. France developed such technology in 1950s and Japan in 1960s and Korea in 1970s. Two countries are running tidal power plants now, not China. Please
read patiently followings.
The economics of tidal wave powered electricity generation is strictly subject to a condition - more than 5 meters tidal altitude
and ideal geographical shape of beach front - Ionic beach front condition having many isles and small peninsular forming good size of small bayes to arrest incoming tidal water. Such geographical condition can contain billion cumbic meter water with 5 - 10 meter water head and good enough gravity to turn water wheel - turbine to rotate generator.
The most ideal geographical conditions are found in the southern peninsular of Korea and Japanese southern Honshu, nearby Osaka and Shikoku. Such tidal head forms above 30 degree northern latitude, not area nearby ecuators.
Certainly land enclaved easern China sea or Yellow sea does not offer proper tidal head and their trial still unsucceeded.
Certainly tidal energy is not
suitable to Thailand.
China is more diligent to block the upper streams of all the rivers of Indochinese life lines of Phumiputra, Salaween, Mekong, Red, if not Yangtze and Huang Ha. All these water resources send electricity good enough.
C. The renewal of burnt gas, carbon dioxide from natural gas burnt power plant can be done but theoretically. CO2 can be processed even into food - carbohydrate. Returning CO2 to burnable hydrocarbons needs same amount of energy.
D. Thai energy diplomacy is weak. Much would rely on Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos. Thailand is not powerful enough, unless never for good, to manipulate such countries in order to secure stable energy resource.
E. As Thai rath mentioned, Thailand energy is monopolized by PTT who lost the function of national energy policy makers. PTT profiteer the ramphant profit by usine of Thai natural gas
resources which is belonging to all Thai citizen.
One must look at the point that What PTT own assets of wealth should be belonging to the all Thai citizens because all Thai citizens were loyal patronage for last 50 years.
F. EGAT is same as PTT was and Is now. What EGAT owns is belonging to all Thai citizens who paid tax-like electricity bill and EGAT accumulate all its property.
85 % electricty of EGAT comes from Thai own natural gas which belongs to all Thai citizens.
The shabby distribution of LPG gas to TukTuk and household cooking gas can not justify such ramphant profiteering of PTT and EGAT. The privatization of Energy Agencies is too early to still growing capitalistic ecomony. That also break the balance of wealth distribution between urban and rurals, between the wealth and the poor.
G. Thailand must think of the immense brown coal reserves (lignite),
making it into clean coal gas and feed urban vehicles and cooking gas. Sand shale gasification and liquefaction costs 6 dollars for a liter but the brown coal is pretty less than it, half or one third.
it is not economic nor economical to today's market but such tech solution of today will prepare Thailand well in era of 100 dollar per barrel of crude oil. Many energy conscience nation like Japan and Korea is now preparing for the era of 100 dollars if not since last 10 years or 2-3 decades. 3 months forecast of 50, 60 and 70 dollars crude oil market prices is not the business the academics must do. They must prepare for next 10, 50 and 100 years and they must be able to make suggestions to the people as the reverand scholars who must lead their own society.
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Author: Wiz
Date: 23 Sept 2548 17:11
Ploliticians are Pollaging people by reapign the profit prom privatized PTT, EGAT, or so ...
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Author: a watcher
Date: 13 Sept 2548 10:00
Thailand must reorganize all level of energy agencies and trade system.
1. Must have a state enterprise - National Gas Corporation who exploit and distribute indigenious or imported gas to endusers or citizen. Indigenious gas must be equially divided to every citizen because the gas belong to the people.
A privatized firm PTT can not monopolize it.
2. Must have a state enterprise - National Oil and Gas Exploration Corporation. This enterprise must find energy resources.
PTTEP must be independant from PTT and serve this mission solely.
3. Must have a state enterprise - National Alternative Energy Corporation who exploit and trade the alternative energy resources of solar, wind, tide,
cultivated ethanol, geothermal and nuclear energy.
4. The refineries firm must be freed from PTT hold.
Retail trade must be more liberalized and must open the chance
for agro-ethanol retail.
5. Privatization of PTT was failed. It becomes more monopolitc business conglomerate. It spent the money of people's gas to buy
more refineries and more petrochemical plants.
From the biginning, PTT or PTT plc are not supposed to buy such private free competing industries like refineries or petrochemical firms. The policy making mission - the most important principle why PTT MUST HAVE BEEN is now finished because Ministry of Energy has undertaken all policy making function.
5. PTT PLC must be allowed for free competition with others in order to serve its own principle - profit taking corporate.
Above system of national organization is the succeeded case of other well energy planned nations.
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Author: Tumjai
Date: 4 Sept 2548 08:22
To: A watcher
It would be nice if people who run this country can think as longterm as you. Unfortunately, very few seems to be able to do that. Most politicians, civil servants and academics are extremely shallow thinkers and only want to do everything for quick results so that they can gain quick recognition or make quick money for themselves.
#1.."If God gave a gift to Thailand, it is natural gas and enormous brown coal, and the genius people, the most important natural resouces. If they do not make use of those, Thailand will fall in second tier state very soon."
By the way Thailand does not have as many genius as you think. How many people in the government or the civil service can be considered
as genius? I cannot see any. Let's be honest. Thai people may be kind, humble and friendly. There is no way that one would consider Thai people as cleaver or genius.
If US, Western Europe and Japan are 1st tier states. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Eastern European are 2nd tier. Thailand cannot measure up to those countries, therefore we must be one of the 3rd tier states. There is no way that we will fall into second tier state because we are already in the 3rd tier.
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Author: a watcher
Date: 1 Sept 2548 15:12
let me finish,
Thailand must write down the executive acts clearly about '50 years Energy Initiatives of Thailand'.
The initiatives clearly cut the directives and goals.
The foundamental problem of Thai energy is so heavily dependant on its own natural gas which show already the end.
The energy resource must be balanced as well as independant in national security terms.
Coal, gas, nuclear, alternative, renewable or other natural power must be written in percentage and clear time frame.
The sizable budget for independant, academic energy R&D, independant from the energy companies, must be allocated. They must build energy R & D center at proper unnoisy place and support academics to freely
study and research comfortably. They must be paid enough with good incentives. There were many well educated genius academics in energy sector but most of them got old about to retire but must gather them into a center and let them continue.
If God gave a gift to Thailand, it is natural gas and enermous brown coal, and the genius people, the most important natural resource.
If they do not make use of those, Thailand will fall in second tier state very soon.
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