About: I'm a "born global" who wants to contribute to making home a better place.
Servicing the energy needs of emerging markets
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Creating a clean and sustainable environment is not a question of re-inventing the wheel. We have all the technology that is needed to solve the big problems of our generation: climate change, deforestation, exploitation of natural resources, poverty, both material and of capabilities, and the list goes on.
- So why are those topics still problems?
Because the technology is not being applied as much as it could. Because we still rely on coal-fired electricity, fossil-fueled cars, badly insulated homes, etc. Those things might be changing here in Europe and in the US, but in the majority of countries that is not the case.
Most developing countries and emerging economies, like Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia and Russia, cannot subsidize e.g. wind energy or bio-fuels, and their private sectors often don't have access to long-term financing or affordable "clean" engineering services.
We want to challenge this along with the idea that renewable energy has to be expensive. We will do so by creating potential projects in those countries and connecting them to the right companies in the "West".
Take for example a small Indian company that produces mango juice. We could help this company get it's own water-treatment plant, a bio-gas conversion plant and a little micro gas turbine that generates both steam and electricity. We could also find an investor that would pay for the installation and earn back his money over the years.
The mango juice company could save money on electricity and steam, and it would not pollute the river anymore.
And we could take the blueprints and send them to our partner in Morocco, for an orange juice company, and to Kazakhstan, for an apple juice company, and to Mexico for a Tequila company, etc... and we could offer the service cheaper each time, attracting more and more projects, reducing more and more pollution.

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