When should we begin?

Can you convert this beautiful scene

   

Picture 1 Hess-Indonesia Ujung Pangkah Project, Information can be accessed through this website 

(Photograph Courtesy of PT Tripatra Engineers and Constructors)

into equally beautiful scene like this?

Picture 2 A 1.6 MW Denver International Airport Photovoltaics Farm 

 (Photograph Courtesy of Denver International Airport)

You have to wait until I sum up my ethical opinion due to previous blog I published…

In my opinion, the “only” reason behind sustainability is ethic.  However, one may perceive other reasons as sustainability foundation.  What I meant here is to keep trying to approach based on the proximity of perfection—theoretically.  It is hard to answer the explanation since people tend to struggle with their own interest and many conflicting interests behind it.  It is “politically” correct isn’t it? 

From a different viewpoint, the need of mediator—I emphasize to the role of government—is adequate to achieve win-win solution between two parties.  As the continuation from my previous introduction, the surrounding area near Lapindo remains stagnant.  There have been no solutions given to the affected societies.  From the contractor’s side, it has claimed to pay all losses—meanwhile they have approached the government to announce this riot as a national disaster.  Truthfully, the societies are still struggling to achieve their rights back.  At this point I will stop to further involve in a political atmosphere.  Nonetheless, I will define the damage types of this disaster.  The losses can be considered into two parts, i.e. both material and immaterial.  The measurement for material loss is clear.  Yet, the immaterial loss could be anything, for instances: the jobs availability, close-knit neighborhoods and a community structure.  The loss level has covered up to the entire county in that area.  Most importantly, one question may rise—how about the non-human ecosystem?  I bet no one can measure these losses and never can.  Extinction of a wide array of biodiversity…

Answering the starting question, solar is abundance in the equator area.  Indonesia positions on exactly the middle of equator.  It is convincing to harvest this infinite resource.  Photovoltaic has been widely known to accommodate direct energy conversion to electricity.  Given the same amount of money to produce, my individual opinion will stick on the renewable resource.  There will be no predetermined starting point to begin.  Neither am I nor other dedicated experts noted as newbie in the renewable energy.  In fact, this is an old idea.  Since the era of Edison, solar has been noticed as the “light” to the future energy.

Flashback:

Back in 1931—the year when Thomas Edison died—Edison told his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

(Quoted from: website )

Hence, why should we wait to implement this? 

NB: Green Act: 14.4 miles  = 0.475 gallons oil

        Cumulative  15.6 miles  = 0.515 gallons oil