Japan's recent activities on renewable energy after what's happen to Fukushima Daiichi nulear plant is a signal not only to the Japanese people and the world but also specifically here in the Philippines. The Philippines just like Japan was blessed with lots of geothermal energy sources which can be harness to generate the needed power. We should be developing more and more renewable energy sources which is a blessing instead of planning and relying on nuclear energy sources.
Eventhough Japan only occupies 2.1% of world population or it is the fourth largest energy consumer in the world in-spite of the population of 120 million that only occupies 2.1% of world population. Japan heavily relies on oil and coal, which amounts to over 60% of total energy usage in Japan. Japan is a nation poor in resources; therefore roughly 80% of its oil is imported from OPEC: especially, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran. Also most coal comes from Australia and the United States.
Damage and the radiation leak at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shattered the public's confidence in the safety of atomic power and plunged the country's energy policy into disarray. Ahead of the disaster, Japan had planned to build enough reactors to raise nuclear power supply to meet 50 percent of demand by 2030 from 30 percent.
This should have been done and must be done because Japan in the first place has all the needed geothermal energy and can be fully develop to answer the long term energy, instead Japan relies heavily on conventional and dangerous energy sources
Steam and hot water billow and gush from deep below the ground at Japan's tens of thousands of famed hot springs and could be harnessed to drive turbines that generate electricity in a clean, safe and stable way, they say.
Although Japanese high-tech companies are leaders in geothermal technology and export it, its use is miniscule in the island nation, which has for decades relied heavily on imported fossil fuels and atomic power.
The things that happened on Japan should be a wake-up call to us Filipinos to develop renewable energy instead of conventional energy which creates problem on our health and environment.
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