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Our fuel imports, in Jordan, exceed 5 billion $ and depicts a need for alternative sources. We are using fossil fuel to produce 90% of our energy...and to think that we have 11 months of sunshiny days, makes one sad.
Our main problem lies in Policy, or lack of it. The exponential increase in using solar energy worldwide, due to more advanced technologies, reduction in cost versus increasing cost of other sources, has certainly not been echoed in Jordan.
However, household heating systems are picking up, but at a low percentage. Ideas to provide tourists camps with solar energy never took off.
My dream, of turning glass boats into solar powered ones, is still something I want to pursue (I mentioned this subject under mission 1 by mistake instead of here), but in short, turning these boats into solar run ones achieves the following:
- saves the fishermen sector, helps glass boats sector, less fuel and oil spillage into the red sea rich underwater life and coral life, reduces expensive fixing, building and maintenance of old and traditional wooden boats and engines, puts Aqaba - Jordan on the landmark as one of the first cities to effect this project on this scale and becomes a shared success story, but mostly, sends a signal to authorities to consider more proactive steps towards harnessing the solar and wind energies found abundantly in Jordan. Cost is feasible and justifiable. It is much cheaper to build a fibreglass boat with a solar battery, but the only one-time cost is the mold or model for building the boats.
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