Prepare an Umbrella Before the Energy Crisis

These days the two most populous countries in the world, China and India, are experiencing the same crisis — the energy crisis. Electricity became in-adequate and a number of industrial activities began to be disrupted.

The reasons are the same, namely the inadequate supply of coal, the price of electricity production soaring sharply and the electricity supply declining in the midst of these giant countries trying to rise from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The energy crisis in China and India should actually be a signal for other countries to watch out for, it is very possible that the crisis will be contagious, such as the spread of the Corona virus.

In the coming years, the production of fossil energy such as coal will tend to be depressed, although we have sufficient reserves, it does not mean that we are free to produce as much as we need.

The world’s efforts to reduce emissions will be more compelling and more effective. If the two world reinsurance giants Munich Re and Swiss Re agree not to provide reinsurance protection against fossil-related risk objects, insurance companies around the world will also be unable to provide insurance cover for fossil-related risk objects. Because there is no insurance, banks also cannot provide financing. Next, like China and India, electrical energy will not be enough to support industrial and economic activities.

The point is that other countries in the world must be able to read the loud and clear signals from China and India mentioned above, and immediately prepare umbrellas because there is already cloud in the sky.

We have many clean energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, water etc. but this energy potential can not be stored, except at a super expensive cost and limited storage capacity.

But there is a flexible type of clean energy, people can produce and store it themselves as much as they can afford. That’s vegetable oil, there are about 60 oil producing plants, and only one that we are introducing intensively, namely tamanu or nyamplung oil — to be a role model in building local fuels concept, God willing, will be crisis free.

Along with the availability of this vegetable oil ‘umbrella’, the community has also been able to learn to process it into fuel with us at the Green Waqf Project,

Cloudy sky is not always followed by rain, but it never be a loss for people who always have an umbrella ready.