Hello!
My name is Mahmoud Ataya and I am an electrical engineering student.
I care a lot about electrical engineering not just as a job but as a
social issue. There are a lot of people in the world who do not have
electricity. This is really bad because electricity is an important
feature of modern life. Without it, one cannot be on par with the
rest of humanity. Furthermore it is an issue because there is not a
universal idea about how to get electricity to all the people in the
world. This means that humanity must get together to solve this
problem but first we have to find out a smart way of doing it that we
can all agree upon. In this blog, I will explore different ideas
about how to provide electricity to the people of the world. I will
talk about their individual benefits and detriments. I will look at
places where they were used and analyze how effective they were at
solving the problems that they were meant to solve.
First
though we have to establish the importance of solving the world's
problems with electricity. There are some people who do not think
that everyone in the world needs to have electricity. Some of these
people believe that it is not possible to build the infrastructure to
give everyone electricity so that is why they do not want to do it.
Others think that it is chauvinism to want to give everyone access to
electricity. The bottom line is that we can do it because we have
the technology and if people do not want to use electricity, that
should be their choice, but they should also have the choice to use
it if they want. Therefore making electricity available to everyone
does not disrupt their way of life because they can choose if they
want to use it or not. Look at the Amish for example.
Electricity
is therefore an important part of modern life. It powers pretty much
every element of modern life at at least some stage. The major
aspects of modern life such as mobile technologies, computers,
internet connections, etc. are powered by electricity. So are the
best medical technologies like defibrillators and diagnostic tools.
The modern conveniences of life are fueled by electricity like
microwave ovens. Therefore access to electricity is necessary for
everyone if they are going to partake in modern life and its
conveniences. It is therefore a universal human concern to provide
electricity to all of humanity much like it was a universal human
concern to cure certain diseases or feed humanity.
However,
there exist many ideas about how to provide electricity to the
people. The three remaining blog posts for this blog will explore
the ways in which researchers have thought to provide electricity to
the people. These include local and regional ideas, ideas fueled by
fossil fuels and ideas that are from renewable energy, and ideas that
are free market and ideas that are public sector. After examining
the pros and cons of each, there may be a clear winner as to the best
way for humanity to get behind a singular method and work together to
provide electricity to everyone on planet earth.
Mahmoud
ReplyDeleteNice post. Shortage of electricity is the biggest issue ,poor ( developing countries) are facing. It is really sad that when we talk about the ways to produce cleaner or cheaper electricity , there are some places where people are out of power for twelve hours a day. (imagine no power at all for twelve hours a day when it is over 100 degrees outside). India is famous for blackouts. The infrastructure is old and that is leading to high cost of electricity (twice or some cases more than twice than the cost it should be). And some of these countries are blessed with so much natural resources such water natural gas and coal. Although coal because of the emission of greenhouse gases is very infamous. I agree the electrical engineers are morally responsible of finding the solution of this problem.