Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 28 April 2013
One of my favourite cartoons on energy is one drawn years ago by Australian cartoonist Ron Tandberg. It shows two men standing on a bare land, looking down at the ground. One says to the other: “There must be a source of energy down there!”
Overhead, meanwhile, the sun looms large and blazes away.
As we reel from the latest energy shock – delivered by the state owned electricity monopoly, the CEB – I wonder whether all 20 million of us have become like those two narrowly focused men.
How can our tropical island plug into the sun, wind, trees and the ocean to meet more of our energy needs? Why don’t renewable energies produce a larger share of our energy mix? Who or what are the bottlenecks?
Such questions pop up…
View original post 1,162 more words
Open Minds! (formerly: Moving Images blog) 