This Energy Problem

The world is full of happenings, whether social, industrial, commercial, spiritual. That is why there is a sense of morbidity when nothing happens. Never mind our upward-mobile Nigerian artiste Tuface and his cliche "Nothing dey happen..." It is because something is happening in his life that he has had the voice to say publicly, as if mocking the rest of us that nothing is happening!

Happenings require energy to take place, and energy is the biggest problem of this world. It is the main cause of the Middle East instability for more that half a century now, although many would still attribute the conflict there to ethno-religious backgrounds. That was then. Now it is energy: the abundant oil in the middle east attracts the attention of the entire civilized world as each country looks for means of running their industries, transport and infrastructure. Interestingly Israel has no oil industry to boast of but that nation runs as efficiently as any other industrialized nation, perhaps better as it has to cope with high level security alert 24/7 in addition to daily conveniences.

Now that leads us to new world and new possibilities. No oil, yet moving ahead adequately? Do you know that this is indeed a peep into the new world order? Solar is widely used as a source of energy in Israel as well as other industrialized nations like Japan, Germany and US. Funny part is that these countries don't have as much sunshine as they would have loved to have all year round, yet they are doing good with solar. Isn't that telling us something? God has provided all the source of energy we need in this world in abundance: SOLAR. All we need to do is tap. Somebody tell me how I can tap solar energy (so free) cheaply, please.