I had a serious lesson today about base stations and green energy from electro’s Emilio Paolucci. Thus far, my knowledge of the environment and base stations was people disguising base stations as trees.
This I now realise is not the best way to reduce energy emissions!
What is the problem with base stations?
Base stations can go down. This means that each base station is equipped with tonnes of batteries in case this happens for back-up services. The energy of the base station produces heat. The batteries need to be cool to work so each station must be air conditioned.
This causes double polluting emissions and even worse things for the environment.
The solution?
Enter electro power systems. The company is already working with Telecom Italiato solve this. Basically, electo uses Hydro power as an alternative to the batteries. This means that the batteries are replaced with canisters where water and air com-bust to make alternative energy when base stations go down.
This is safer for the environment and reduces emissions.
BUT – it is only more affordable in bulk so when alternative power is needed for longer that six hours. Any less than this and its quite costly. But after that it competes with the price of the batteries.
What we think?
OK, I am no expert of this but I really didn’t know anything about this until today! So it was very interesting. Green issues are really hitting telecoms and mobile and new regulations such as RoHS are making sure that operators implement measures such as this.
