While the world is still powered by oil and gas, the race is on to find alternative energy sources. In the Middle East, many countries are pursuing nuclear options, which is both expensive and controversial.
In Ramallah pilot raises green energy hope, a Palestinian 25 years old entrepreneur Khaled Al Sabawi has recently won a prestigious award in Prague for his design and set up of the pilot unit application, which is basically depending on the heat absorbed and stored in the ground.
As he explains that the ground is usually maintaining its temperatures, regardless of the changes in its atmosphere, thus this heat represents a source of energy that can be collected, stored and distributed for warming houses and places, as well as heating water for all kinds of purposes. Using simple technology depending on the natural surrounding for raw materials, with minimum need of gadgets or high sophistication he came up with a functional, economical and echo friendly solution!
Al Jazeeza's Nour Odeh reports from the West Bank where one young entrepreneur has shown that there's a natural alternative - using energy from the earth.