BICG applied to be the Indonesian representative of Solar3
By Christian Fritz
- 2007-04-08
SOLAR 3 SA is a Swiss company operating in the industrial and research sector of Renewable Energy Sources.
SOLAR 3 SA will produce and sell worldwide (even through its controlled Swisse company Greentecno SA) innovative and low-price technologies for combined wind and photovoltaic electric power generation thanks to ownership patents and know-how coming from its Research and Development Centre.
The international market of eolic wind energy is becoming more and more dynamic: in the last five years in fact it has recorded an average growth of 40% and the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) estimates that it could come to satisfy up to 12% of the world?s need of energy by the year 2020. In the year 2007 it is a big prejudice saying that energy production from renewable sources is uneconomic in comparison to fossil fuel and not only because of the high prices of crude oil and of gas, but most importantly because the oil era will end before oil itself will run out, due to the fact that the planet cannot sustain the actual situation.
?Green Technologies? are necessary to spread the sector of alternative energetic sources and thus encourage an economy of development, environmentally friendly.The commercial net of Solar 3 SA envisions a structure built from a Swiss centre with branches located throughout the world?s continents (Europe, America, Asia, Africa e Oceania). The representatives and local distributors will seal agreements regulating their respective territory of action. The commercial structure will function in close collaboration with the after-sales service. Nowadays we are on the brink of a dangerous world. New international assets of economic power are being created. The stability of energy sources is becoming a security issue. The countries that do not have an organic energy policy risk being left behind. Our instrumentation of wind / photovoltaic cogeneration responds to a precise need of the wind market (today almost exclusively on a horizontal axis).
Advantages of our cogeneration module are:
? Very low maintenance costs;
? Flexible adaptation with a good visual impact on the environment
(without modifying the landscape neither in tourist locations)
? No noise issues;
? No problems related to electromagnetic fields;
? Electric power availability everywhere in the world, even in case of lack of national distribution grid.
Our wind generator with its photovoltaic cogeneration system is a valuable alternative to other equipments nowadays on the market.
Thereby we consider actually credible the objective to secure a key international role in the field of RES in the near future: at least 5% of the world market of wind power producers.
In addition to the cogeneration device of wind/photovoltaic electric power, SOLAR 3 SA will manufacture and market throughout the world:
? a low-price dehumidifier/water generator and purifier that allows to extract up to 30 litres of drinkable water daily from the humidity in the air, thanks to specific patented technology and know-how coming from its Research and Development Centre;
? low-cost computers equipped of wireless card integrated with specific software dedicated to alphabetization and education, in joint-venture with its controlled Swisse company TC SYSTEMS SA, leader in the ICT sector.
It is known that the OLPC project of the MIT is working on the promotion of a laptop to spread education to developing countries.
But such a project is subject to a fundamental critic: the lack of energy infrastructures and of the hygienic systems necessary to grant a dignified life to the people who might be interested in getting a basic education.
SOLAR 3?s mission is not only to offer electric power and drinkable water (through its own distinctive dehumidifier / water generator and purifier), but also to promote an important project towards literacy and basic education. To reach this goal a laptop with specific characteristics, such as solidity and reliability, is required. The above said laptop must be able to communicate in a wireless situation with a central satellite net dedicated to education: millions of laptops will be able to download easy games and animation, this way spreading basic education to several areas of the planet that couldn?t otherwise be reached.
The contents of the net will be centralized, but available and produced by all the customers, thus promoting the development of a vast area of the world that has remained until now left out of these infrastructures dedicated to education.
The number 3 in the name ?SOLAR 3? stands for the three components indispensable to reach the above mentioned goal:
ELECTRIC POWER
DRINKABLE WATER
EDUCATION.
The mission of SOLAR 3 SA has made the key concepts of the book-manifesto of LifeGate its own. The Three Ps: PEOPLE, PLANET and PROFIT are the three concepts at the basis of a wider vision of the primary needs of mankind and of a new definition of the relationship between profit and ethic.
PEOPLE are not a means but the final goal. The satisfaction of people?s needs, the respect of the single human beings, the attention to the quality of life have to be at the centre of any reasoning and initiative.
PLANET is the theatre of our existence. Without Earth there is no life. It is the ground we walk and live on, it is the air we breathe, it is the food we eat, it is the water we live of. If we do not consider the needs of the planet, we undermine the basis of our existence and of the ecosystem.
PROFIT is what allows us to satisfy the primary needs linked to survival, it is a necessity in order to live in modern society. However the time has come to realize that profit alone is not enough. Without the other two Ps, without considering the people and the planet there is no harmony in life, actually there is no life.
PEOPLE, PLANET and PROFIT are closely knitted together, like the links of a chain. The needs of the people have to be fulfilled within the planet thanks to profit, which is not the goal but is aimed at answering the needs of the people and therefore cannot be disconnected from the necessities of the planet.
And then The Three Es: ETHIC, ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY and EQUITY (FAIR TRADE). Shouldn?t it be then possible to unite the aim of profit making, which is of prime importance to the system we are living in, with the values and objectives that have always characterized ethical engaged companies, spreading the concept of ?profit making" even to those companies that want to work respecting the above said values, without renouncing to the possibility to earn the company, and subsequently its employees, what is necessary to live in modern times?
Why not promote companies lead by entrepreneurs who put their heart and rains, who are rational but also sensitive and endowed with values and ideals? Leading a company in order to produce a right profit and in the meantime reach also positive results for the wellbeing of the people and of the planet is possible!
ETHIC, ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY and FAIR TRADE, thus become inspiration not only of the economic policy followed by no profit companies, mostly towards underdeveloped countries, but also become an inspirational line for the companies that are normally acting in the national productive system, to work in order to meet the needs of the people, in respect of values such as the conservation of the environment and the dignity of the human being.
Today, finally, people are starting to talk about the ?value? of electric power roduced from renewable sources, in particular wind
and solar light, as opposed to the mere cost of KWh. What is in fact the ?real rice? that the international community has to pay in terms of pollution and disasters provoked by oil drilling, transport and the indiscriminate use of fossil fuel? 20 years ago high-tech came out from the rooms of big corporations to enter the private market. Today PCs and the Internet can be found in several households. Green technologies are following the same route, with the wide decentralization of the production of electric power on the territory.
SOLAR 3 SA is asking your precious contribution to make the project known, to demonstrate your sensibility towards development and the satisfaction of the basic needs of the Southern Hemisphere of the World, the respect of the environment, the research for new technologies to achieve a better future. |