SDGAsia: Diffusion of Innovation in Semarang

SDG 7 - Team Discussion

Diffusion of Innovation in Semarang

Topic questions

Share your own understanding of SDG 7, regarding to some practical cases of how the energy are becoming cleaner and more affordable at multiple geographical levels (in your local community, in your country, and in the region).
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According to your group’s specific context: What are the most critical issues, significant factors and major principles that have had, are having or will have great influences on transforming future paradigm of energy production and consumption? (For example: technology innovations on both ends; workable business model and financing strategies; flexible governance mode, institutional settings and policy packages; citizen’s sustainable mindsets and lifestyles changing; etc.)
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From global to local, as well as from local to global. What are the success experiences from all over the world that can be learned and adopt in SA and SEA? How could your diversified local practices enrich and provide more opportunities to the world in a sense?

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It's about how to create and encourage people to use energy which can be renewal, like solar energy.

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Yes, definitely, Bram!

Are you aware of any examples of solar energy in Semarang?

Brant

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I've seen in many public spot, a lot of solar cell which is used for lamp.

Bram

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I saw recently that in the US (I think it was California) they are going to require that EVERY house has solar energy panels on the roof by 2020!

Here's the link:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/california-votes-to-require-rooftop-solar-power-on-new-homes

Brant

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I think SDG 7 is an action to make a clean and friendly energy, just like hydroelectricity, wind and solar. But all that much lacks in terms of noise pollution, and should make other safe and clean energy

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how to make energy are becoming cleaner is not easy, but i'm sure that we can make it. Cleaner energy is made from the cleaner environment such as there's no scattered rubbish in street, that causes flooding problems due to clogging waterways, so i think we can make like waterways that can absorb water to get into the soil

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I think that to make a city clean energy is not easy because most people not aware to environment. many people have to make a pollution and the city have a lot of garbage. but i think we can do it for make a city to clean energy.

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recycle is famous and the most famous about using everyday items of waste. for example we re-process the plastic waste that is difficult to decompose, into an environmentally friendly plastic bag besides we start to replace with paper.

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In pokhara (Nepal), plactic bottles and plastic made materials are collected from most visited touistic places and trekking routes and recycled using grinding machines and refined for re use. But the machines are costly and imported, what kind of cost effective recycing methods are used in your country dear maria igrecia

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type of cost effective method of recycle in indonesia that is, in indonesia already use 3R method that is reuse, reduce and recyle

stage 1 began to be separated from the waste plastic waste chemicals and other wastes such as organic waste

stage 2 starts to do the plastic garbage that we have grouped.

Stage 3 is an enumeration used to clean cut using a plastic counter machine and it is ready for production and recycled again.

and now also in Indonesia through cooperation with danone aqua also builds recycling business unit (RBU) in south Tangerang, Bandung, Bali and Lombok with total waste management capacity of 12,000 tons / year

more or less so the method that exist in Indonesia thank you, Dear Abinash Thapa.

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Dear Maria,

I am glad to hear updates from you about Indonesia 3R approach of reuse, reduce and recycle the waste materials. This is great start to make our environment clean and green.

Hydropower has been in use in Nepal for centuries for grinding grain. I today share about the water mills (ghattas) that have wooden blades/shafts and a low power output (less than 0.5 kW). It is estimated that about 25-40,000 traditional inefficient water mills are in operation.

The mighty rivers start as rivulet in the lap of these mountains. The kinetic energy of falling river among the slopes are used to harness the power to grind grains to empower human body. The conservation of energy works perfectly fine satisfying scientific society of rich nation who want’s to keep nature pure and make a big shout out for being agrarian while doing so.

These turning machines are popularly known as Pani Ghatta a.k.a water mills. The water mills are very popular across the Himalayas, as it is the only reliable machine to grind grain for people living in the regions. The water mills are not limited to Nepal but you can see across the stretch of hills of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tibet, and Bhutan. Traditionally limited to grinding, now many are modified to generate electricity for local use.

This kind of improved traditional water mills concept can be extremely useful on delivery of clean energy and can be good cost effective for implementation by the peoples. This not only produces electricity also works as grinder to process the raw food materials. Have you known about those water mills and its concept or any other traditional knowledge you know about related to produce clean energy let us know and share new ideas between us.

The Asian region as a whole would benefit from the increased supply of clean energy if global and regional cooperation is in place to harness this potential. Foreign direct investment and development aid is essential to exploit this opportunity and meet the national and global goals for energy, environment and climate change. Regional cooperation needs to be expedited to produce more tangible results and the role of international capital needs enhancing through a proper global clean energy financing strategy .

I attach one youtube video about Nepalese water mills for your information and perusal here:

Your's Respectfully,

Anish.

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Hi Anish,

A very interesting post, thanks for sharing it with such a well-produced video!

In the west they have been developing this type of basic water wheel technology for a long time, with simple technology which can be maintained using local craftsmen. In Holland they are famous for using wind power to mill their food.

It is also interesting that Nepal is starting to use this same traditional technology to generate electricity!

In one of my virtual builds I created a simulation of a medieval town, complete with a river, waterfalls, flowing water and a waterwheel house! Perhaps this might be useful for students to experientially explore, more convenient and safer than going to the rural location in the physical world?

(I moved the pictures to a separate thread on the SDG 11 forum, so it doesn't overwhelm this conversation thread)

Brant

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Yeah, we have different source to generate the electricity and renewable source of energy are also available through which we can generate clean energy without use of fossil fuel and other non- renewable types too. As we know the target is to sustain the world with renewable energy by replacing non- renewable one by 2030. For this the production should be doubled and the efficiency of the production system should also be improvised in same ratio. And those things/machines which have been developed in traditional days were really amazing and the concepts behind the method were really scientific. If we utilize that practices and principles, really adoption method can be developed. The technology should be modified, infrastructure should be upgraded and extra support should be provided for landlocked, small island and under developed country.

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Hi Anish!

I saw an animation of Hydro electric power in Khotang, is it still under construction?

I couldn't get further details on that.

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Dear Brant,

Many thanks for your kind reply response comment. I have been overwhelmed from your much needed support in discussion on this subject and forum. Those Pani Ghatas- Water Grinder Mills have been at use in Nepal since a long time. The water grinder has been locally providing services as mixture grinder mills for grains specially in rural village areas. This is very cost effective traditional mill system along production of small scale hydro electricity through it.

I have also tried to study similar kind of small but effective products contributing to clean energy and found This whirlpool turbine which can power dozens of homes, providing energy 24 hours a day. Belgian company Turbulent have amazingly come up with a solution to generate energy for small-scale rural areas lot same like Water Grinder mills. It works using the power of water, the turbine can be installed to most river and canals, using the current to produce energy - which the creators claim is enough to power up to 60 homes. Could this be the future for all energy production or do we have any more ideas how we can make it more better and think of another idea and innovations to it ? Please share would really happy to learn more about it.

Your's Truly,

Anish.

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Dear Anish,

wonderful to know about Nepal's hydro power project, very interesting to know, in Pakistan, KPK province , we have also same kind of hydro power generating project as the province is mountainous and full of natural water falls, yet we have to establish it in long run and sustainable way.

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To eliminate the negative effects of plastic and polypropylene bags on human health, environment, and urban beauty, the government of Nepal has announced a nationwide ban on plastic bags from July 17, 2016. Nepal government also proposed to charge one percent customs duty to those manufacturers who switched from producing plastic bag to environment-friendly products. However, the government’s poor monitoring and fierce opposition from plastic bag manufacturers has failed to implement the policy which result not 100% success rate on plastic ban.

However there are organizations such as Hamri Bahini, non-profit and non-government that produces biodegradable bags and give empowerment to women and also make social contribution as well. Nowadays, we can also see few people are using plastic bags and is replaced by jute bags, cloth bags, paper bags and cotton bags.

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SDG point 7 is about sustainable development and energy for our future, to make the environment more comfortable to live in more better

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SDG 7 - Team Discussion

Diffusion of Innovation in Semarang

Watermill (Pani Ghatta) - A Traditional Nepalese piece of Technology