13th January 2012, By Dr Gamini Kulatunga First promoted by engineer P G Joseph, the former Director of the Renewable Energy Division of the Ministry of Science and Technology, in 1980 in a technical paper presented at the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, and picked up by the late Vidya Jothi Dr Ray Wijewardene […]
www.raywijewardene.net P. G. Joseph recalls the long years of his advocacy with Ray Wijewardene for Dendro Power in Sri Lanka, and how Bio Energy Association of Sri Lanka (BEASL) was formed. Read full article below. Download PDF
The three traditional major cash crops in Sri Lanka; Tea, Rubber and Coconut were introduced during the colonial period. Since then the economic potential of a number of other crops has been exploited: pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, sugarcane etc; but none of them has had a large enough economic impact to be declared the Fourth Cash […]
By H.A.J. Gunathilake and P. G. Joseph (Agronomy Division, Coconut Research Institute, Lunuwila and Alternative Energy Division, Ministry of Science and Technology, Sri Lanka) One hectare of coconut land (156 palms ha-1) planted with gliricidia (2,250 trees ha-1 into double rows in avenues of coconut) and available natural pasture and outside supplied paddy […]
By Dennis Garrity Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to global warming. And the evidence of negative impacts on agriculture is building up. Climate change has reduced the growth in crop yields by 1–2 percent per decade over the past century (Wiebe et al, 2015). Weather abnormalities related to climate change are costing billions […]
Why Biomass? Biomass is organic non-fossil material, collectively. In other words, ‘biomass’ describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum. Carbon Sinks There is a vital difference between energy production from fossil fuels and from biomass. […]
ජීව ස්කන්ධ (Biomass) යොදා ගත යුත්තේ ඇයි? ජීව ස්කන්ධ යනු සාමුහිකව ෆොසිල නොවන ඕගනික දෘව්‍යයකි. වෙනත් වචනයකින් ‘ජීව ස්කන්ධ’ යන්නෙන් විස්තර වන්නේ භුවිද්‍යාත්මක ක්‍රියාවලියක් තුළින් ගල් අඟුරු හෝ පැට්‍රෝලියම් වැනි පදාර්ථ බවට පත් ජෛව ස්කන්ධ හැර අන් සියලු සජීවී හෝ අජීවී ජෛව ජීවීන් ය. ෆොසිල ඉන්ධන දහනය නිසා වසර දශ ලක්ෂ ගණනාවක් සිරවී පැවති CO2 […]
23rd January 2020, By Isuru Seneviratne Evergreen agriculture is a type of agroforestry that integrates trees into crop and livestock production systems. Combining this with bio-energy generation is a unique and massively scalable solution for reducing emissions with many ecological and rural empowerment co-benefits. Sri Lanka has been a pioneer in scaling […]
www.silumina.lk, 2020 ජනවාරි 11, නිහාල් පී. අබේසිංහ විසිනි ඉදිරි මාස 3 – 4 ඇතුළත නියඟයක් ඇතිවෙන ලකුණු පිළිබඳව කාලගුණ විද්‍යාඥයෝ අනතුරු අඟවති. මේ අනුව ඉදිරියේදී ජල විදුලිය හිඟ වී විදුලි අර්බුදයක් ඇති වන ලකුණු පහළ වී ඇත. විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති ඇමැති මහින්ද අමරවීර මහතා පවසන පරිදි පසුගිය වසර හතර හමාර ඇතුළත අපේ රටේ […]
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