The Untapped Energy Mine                      

The Daily Star/by Sajed Kamal                                                           May 10, 2010                         

In a thoughtful and well documented paper, Sajed Kamal looks at renewable energy in action. Focusing on Bangladesh, he makes an eloquent case for abandoning the road to failure of dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear power which he calls "an obsolete, destructive, and unsustainable non-renewable energy path" in favor of "a sustainable path of innovation, renewable energy and peace."

While he focuses on solar energy, he makes the point that it will be in combining different renewable energy sources that we will find our clean, sustainable energy future. While progress is being made around the world, he stresses the need to go further, more comprehensively in this direction.

"The transition to a renewable energy path will not be easy, especially because of the extent to which we have become entrenched in the non-renewable path and the powerful vested interests that guard and reinforce this entrenchment. Investment in renewable energy technologies at various public and private levels is growing around the world, but it doesn't come close to allowing us to avoid a catastrophe."