By Adewale Sanyaolu
A move aimed at creating a cleaner environment through alternative energy sources has been unveiled by Shell in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The initiative which is under Shell’s #Makethefuture campaign seeks to highlight the need for greater collaboration to create more and cleaner energy, by bringing to life innovations from six smart energy start ups.
The global energy giant explained that current access to energy is neither enough to satisfy growing energy needs, nor is it sustainable, adding that the ways in which it is being provided now contributes to climate change, as well as costing the planet valuable resources.
In December, 2015, Shell launched the first Africa’s human and solar powered football pitch at the Federal College of Education, Akoka, Lagos. The pitch was one of the latest initiatives from Shell’s #makethefuture programme which puts bright energy ideas into action to bring benefits to local communities around the world.
Shell posited that “working together, we are turning gravity into light, coffee into energy, cooking oil into fuel, footsteps and roofs into power sources and roadside turbulence into electricity. Communities in Brazil, Kenya, China, the USA and the UK will experience, first hand, the benefits of these new sources of energy. And we will all see how a different future is possible, a future that is in our hands to create.”
‘‘Our world strives for socio-economic progress. We want to improve lives, our communities and our countries, and we are constantly developing new technologies and methods to do so. But we thereby face a global problem: the more energy we reach for a brighter future, the more energy we consume along the way.
That is why we launched our #makethe future campaign, our call for collaboration to create smart solutions that will generate more and cleaner energy across the world,” Shell said.
And to create global acceptability for the campaign, Nigeria’s music idol, representing Africa, Yemi Alade joined other 5 celebrities across the globe at the launch in Brazil.
Alade, in a conference telephone call told Daily Sun that excited at the various innovations aimed at generating energy without impacting on the environment, saying energy is what affects everyone across the globe.
She explained that is happy bringing back the gravity light imitative to Nigeria and by extension Africa because energy generation is still a major issue in Nigeria, and now realizing that power could be generated by just using some intangibles within the environment gives her great joy