I always wondered why we never go in for the natural resources
that is available in plenty. Sunlight and wind power are just two of them.
(Gisele
Bundchen)
Last week I read in the papers that a housing complex in Pune
installed windmills in their complex. One windmill each on top of every building.
A novel idea to reduce the monthly electricity bill.
I agree with what Achim
Steiner (Executive Director of UNEP) had to say “If you cannot produce enough
electricity for a building on the equator, where on earth would you do it?”
This was in response to the objection that the people had in
installing solar panels in Kenya “you know you can’t do this in Africa, these
technologies are too complicated. They are expensive, it is all wrong, we are on
the equator”
Achim continued “I still have a dream that in Kenya twenty
years from now with the photo voltaic and solar revolution what we will
actually see is the rural areas of the country generating the electricity and
selling it to the cities” .... . . . . . . . . to continue reading click here
