In Malaysia, the recent hike in the cost of electricity had forced many to seek alternative ways to address the issue. Mr Ali Osman, a UTM alumni, is neither a scientist nor an academician. An architect by training, he decided to settle down in Kampung Punggai, Penggerang to start his small farm five years ago and decided to take everything back to the nature. Sustainable development has become his main agenda and decided his effort been promoted ever since. He never turned back as he started bringing Netherland to his land. He built a wind mill and surprisingly the mill succeeded in generating sufficient power to run the entire area. His success story is something that worth to be disseminated and followed by Malaysian public.
The world is dying! Excessive carbon emission and pollution have been identified as contributing factors to this environmental issue which has a serious impact on mankind. The environmentalist regards this issue as the main agenda towards a sustainable future.
The growing concern on the danger of burning of fossil fuels for domestic and industrial use and in transportation has generated abundant waste products, which mainly produced by impurities in the fuel. The waste products are in the form of particulate matter and poisonous gases. Particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns in size may create severe health problems, while the presence of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide gases worsens the scenario. Despite the apparent danger, this would not raise an alarm among many of us. The rising cost of fossil energy consumption has a significant effect on us. Rising cost in producing fossil energy due to scarce fossil resources may raise the need to find alternative sources of energy. Scientists have explored the possibility of renewable energy as a substitute for non-renewable energy. Renewable energy, which is a non-fossil energy, comes from various natural resources, namely wind, sunlight, etc. Those natural resources are sustainable in nature or can be replenished continuously.
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