During this week, I´ve been thinking of the possibility and the
necessity of start using clean, renewable and for-free energy from the sun. Yes,
again. I think it is time for we to change our mind and start using the
sun as source of energy in all respects. Furthermore, our planet is asking us to
stop being so cruel to it. So let´s give it a break! Well, that is why I think that the authorities should create
conscious within the society. Specially, if we consider that in Chile we have
the driest desert in the world. Although we all know that there are few possibilities
for that to happen, there is a small hope at the end of the tunnel. Yes, because
there is a group of people who are telling us that we have to be conscious about our planet, but what is the best of it, is the way in which they are saying
it.
In order to demonstrate how useful the solar energy
might be, these people created an event in which the participants had to compete
in a race using cars fueled only by solar energy! This event is called "Carrera
Solar en Atacama" and is being held since last Thursday in Humberstone, Atacama, 1700
km from Santiago, and it is supposed to be finished this coming Monday, the winner of
the race will receive a U$ 30000 prize and majority of the competitors are students from Chilean, Indian, Venezuelan and Argentinean universities. In
regarding to the aims of the race, Mauricio Zanotti, one of the producers, said
that their main purposes with the race are both to award the wit of the
competitors to create a fast, light and innovative car and to promote the use
of solar energy in the world. However, I think that this kind of events are not
enough to make people conscious about clean energies. I also think that the
event should have a better and more complete media coverage so people from everywhere the world could know that a lots of activities are possible thanks to the solar
energy. Finally, I would like to add the fact that it is very necessary to stop
harming our planet with other kinds of fuels such as oils and hydroelectric
companies. I´d also like to know what you think about this. Do you think it is
possible to make a change like this within the society? If so, how much time would it take to do it? Considering that most of the cars are fueled by gasoline,
do you think that it is possible to use only cars fueled by solar energy?
In this link you can find some pictures of the event... have a look at it!
http://www.emol.com/mundografico/?G_ID=24268
Here is the video of the race!
It sounds like a very good idea, Nicolás. Using our own geography to produce energy is a smart thing to do, however, it will take a long time before people change their minds and start to consider this energy like the most suitable for us. Believe it or not the people who actually rule this world is the same people who own the Oil companies and who have the governments on their pockets. I think the solar energy will be used! but only when we finally run out of oil.
ReplyDeleteWe, as country, have one of the vast deserts in the world; that means one of the largest land extensions to found a solar energy system for our country. When you talked about this possibility I immediately reminded a piece of news about a territory in the Tokelau pacific island chain which is the first place that consumes solely its own solar energy. If this was able to do it, what about us.
ReplyDelete(http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/pacific-island-chain-tokelau-first-territory-powered-solely-solar)