An overview of Optofluidics Technology as Novel approach for Renewable Energy

With the increasing emphasis on the research efforts for exploring the possibility of novel approaches for the Renewable Sources of Energy, many interesting topics, including optofluidics have attracted the attention of various energy saving engineers. In addition to the well established renewable sources of energy - solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy, the energy technologists have explored the use of the new sources like - the humidity power. In addition, recently the use of optofluidics in making the renewable energy has been noticed. The present paper is a qualitative review of the efforts and results in this direction, besides describing briefly the computation of the energy produced by the devices based on this emerging technology, and is expected to be of great interest to the researchers engaged in finding the newer approaches for producing and saving energy.