Comments made at Tun's page as well.
The recent increase in petrol / diesel prices and re-structuring of the oil prices have left most reeling with shock. Even though expected, Malaysians being largely insulated from the petrol price increase in other countries took it for granted that we will be continuously protected. Kind of foolish perception on our part.
But the thing is the most important crisis in this time will not go away so long as the energy demand stays. So why havent everyone been talking about the most obvious? Alternative energy sources?
Can Malaysia take a lead in getting the research for alternative energy source instead of saying it's someone else's problem. No one is willing to take the lead. Why not try something like what the Ansari X Prize did in getting private commercial space flight a reality?
This is what I suggest.
Malaysia take the lead and offer to buy alternative non fossil fuel technology from any inventor for EUR 1billion (since we cant trust dollars). Frankly we probably wont have to pay up as I am sure that other countries (see Japan / China) will up the ante to a couple more billion.
Either that or Malaysia lead in setting up the alternative Energy prize. Other countries can contribute and the intellectual property for the invention once bought from the inventor will be set on the world as free to download and use. Freeware!
How's that for having a role in saving the mankind from its excesses. For sure world recognition.
Would Malaysian leaders have the courage to do this? The need is obvious but the courage to execute is always lacking.
Monday, June 09, 2008
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Brilliant. I still can't figure out why no one has come up with some solar powered vehicle or something. I mean it has been many decades since this has been thought of..since we were in school, right? Surely progress in leaps and bounds has been made on this? And we have such an abundance of the resource all year round. I wish I persevered on the Science path..perhaps could have made some contribution, but i guess now I can only hope for someone to come up with something...
I copied down my comment to Tun:
Tun, dalam keadaan harga minyak yang naik melambung tinggi ni, saya cuba mencari alternatif lain seperti yang di lakukan oleh misalnya rakyat Amerika dan Erope di mana mereka menggunakan 'Brown Gas' (hydrogen) untuk penjimatan minyak sehingga 60%. Di Malaysia, saya lihat ada Blog sebegini seperti www.malaysiangreencar.wordpress.com dan www. cyberstokist.wordpress.com. Apa komen Tun mengenainya, kerana tak ada faedahnya kita kita mengeluh tak sudah sudah, baiklah kita fikirkan sesuatu yang positif dan leteral.
For that amount of money to be spent, we need a strong and clean leader to make the needful decisions. Strong, because there are bound to be critics as success is not guaranteed. Clean, because the investment is huge and some portion (of the monies) will be untraceable or creatively defined as "administration costs."
Maksudnya, lesap.
Once A Talang Boy
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