Environmentalists recoil in horror at suggestions of nuclear power, now a safe and clean source of electricity, or the use of cleaned-up coal to lower the price of natural gas that generates it.
"It's a very clean source of power, the cleanest you could possibly wish for.
"For me it's very important to use a clean source of heating energy here," says Támas. "Secondly my concern was to use locally-available sources of energy.
It's a clean source of energy using fuel that can easily be extracted from sea water, and it isn't owned by Saudi Arabia.
On earth, a magnetically confined plasma is what nuclear-fusion researchers wrestle with in their search for a clean source of energy.
Mr. Amano said that despite recent events, nuclear power would remain an "important and viable option for many countries as a stable and clean source of energy".
Because the system also stores energy, Pandian says he hopes it will become a reliable and clean source of power for those places, like schools, where there are playgrounds nearby and kids to use them.
Firstly, although it ranks as a "clean" source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war and Japan's last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Currently much of the industrial production of hydrogen relies on reformation of fossil fuels, but if the electricity is provided via solar, wind or wave sources we can create an almost totally clean source of power".
The so-called biomass refining effort would be modeled on a government-industry partnership that produces ethanol from corn, a program that is popular in farm communities and is seen by some as a relatively clean source of energy that reduces reliance on imported oil.
But far from celebrating, some Peruvians worry that what they saw as a cheap and clean source of energy for the local market will run short.The government and the companies say that Camisea contains enough gas both to meet the export contract of 4.2 trillion cubic feet and to supply the local market for half a century.
