Some Are Actually Doing it

The Unsung Solution/The Island in the Wind

The Unsung Solution explains how we can sequester waste heat to generate power. Actually, the data shows that the U.S. could produce 14 percent of the power it now uses by just recycling heat waste from factories. But as good as it sounds, there are some complications. In order to do this, you have to understand several things, like how much heat a plant generates, how it varies daily, and so forth. Policies must be created in order to regulate this complex matter. 

The Island in the Wind is the Danish island Samsø. Samsø went from being completely dependent of fossil fuels to being a leader of sustainability and renewable energy in less than 10 years. They generate all the energy the island needs from wind and solar. They run their economy, power their business, heat their homes and water, and produce surplus energy to power to the mainland.  They also have biomass heating plants and create biofuels to run their cars. 

Creating the right policies and taking the right measures sustainable methods of generating power could be easily implemented. Even in places where the conditions where considered unbearable to implement solar and wind based energy systems, the've done it. Each day there are more places doing it and they are serving as models to proof and guide the rest of countries towards a more sustainable future. 

Samsø reminds me a lot of Puerto Rico. The economical and political situation they had before is very similar to what Puerto Rico faces now; dependency of fossil fuels that need to be brought in the island from somewhere else, subjection to outside rulings and an indifferent population to the issues. I think Samsø is a great model that Puerto Rico should follow. Hence, I will study more in depth both cases and create and strategical plan I could send to different senators promoting green energy to get things moving for Puerto Rico! - Feeling powerful and optimistic! ;)