Listen to this girl.
What we can do is embrace an initiative like solar energy, we've got plenty of empty desert land and a bright sun.
Now if only I could get a permit from the 'Baladiya' (Kuwait Municipality) to build my solar farm.
Listen to this girl.
What we can do is embrace an initiative like solar energy, we've got plenty of empty desert land and a bright sun.
Now if only I could get a permit from the 'Baladiya' (Kuwait Municipality) to build my solar farm.
Problem with Kuwait that they dont really know what to do... Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research is making papers that make no sense and based on out dated researches.. People are just lost. Business men in Kuwait decided they want to construct a nuclear power plant now KISR and other scientist in Kuwait are following the nuclear hype.
We have a lot of young ambitious scientits and engineers who were educated in the UK under the hands of leaders in the field of environmental issues and energy.. yet our government have provided them with nothing to allow them serve their country the right way.
One Kuwaiti scientist end up becoming a science teacher at a highschool, the other works in el Hai2a el 3ama lelbi2a (EPA) collecting samples of dead fish at beaches contaminated with sewage waste !! (one of their foreigners colleagues now work at Darwin Center in Natural History museum in London, the other is working for UK government defra)..
So what do you expect? I am an engineer, climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable development is my field of study.. but what should i expect to offer to my country? I cant do my research because all data are 'secret' looked in files at some old farts' office treating it as a national security information.. and there is simply no one is there to listen to the future of Kuwait.
they dont care... they really dont care about us or the land that is making something out of them. I came to the UK to study full of energy and expectations.. I wanted to come back to Kuwait with the tools and means that will help provide a better future.
I ended up seeing my country's name in almost every slide in the lectures... top country in corruption, sample of a nation that came to existence and now falling apart, sample of nation that declare, oil reserve but in reality has nothing, the only nation in the world that has no fresh water resources.. they are bluntly using Kuwait as an example of failed state! and example of what they should do to survive.. they talk about Kuwait as if it was a land with no people, no life, no souls living in it.
Unfortunately to them this is not an issue, because people can always move out.. people can always relocate.. and I expect that considering I'm being taught by Germans, French, Italians, and Australians who've been living in the UK away from home for decades now. But is it really the case with US? of all other arab and gulf nationals i've met here.. Kuwaiti students are the only people who are eager to go back home whenver they have a brake...
I'm not giving up, the past two years wont be wasted.. but am nearing the end of my programme of study i'm worried that i might use my will to continue this ambition once i start working in kuwait and dealing with the govornment's bureaucracy.
sorry about this rant. i was taking a brake from a report i'm working and came across here so i ended up venting :)
3azeez, Thanks for your comments.
Much of what you wrote does strike true currently, especially in bloated government or semi-nationalised institutions, you mentioned KISR and I have no doubt that your issues regarding climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable development and their impediments in Kuwait ring true due to bureaucracy, narrow-mindedness and lack of vision.
I have a good friend who wanted to build a solar panelled building and the municipality refused because there 'wasn't a prececent' for such projects.
We can hope for the best.
The thing is, when you are in Kuwait, there are ways to get things done and doing things you want to do.
You can try to move a mountain a kilometer away with one push and fail numerous times and rant about it, but an inch, yes we can with streamlined combined effort.
I know, a lot of things could be overwhelming when you study and come back with knowledge you want to put to use here in Kuwait.
However, you will soon learn the trick if you want to accomplish things.
Focus on the practicality while having a greater idea to change things. You will succeed.
~ Soul
hi. The solar energy predicament has always astonished me since its only source is the sun. However, in theory this should work for kuwait since we have a vast empty desert that can be used for solar panels and such, thus helping reduce the cost of generating electricity to nothing. But what many do not realize is that empty desert may have oil reserves that Kuwait can use. Only a month ago, they discovered a new field, with an amazing output capacity.
In my opinion, that is the biggest hindrance to the solar energy theory in Kuwait. Also the nuclear energy path is way much more efficient, but don't know if its that green :)