Are you in Heat?

I wonder when and how we can use human's natural heat production in lieu of our exploitation of earth's heat.

OneWorld.net reported that the first half of 2008, 24 countries worldwide were already harnessing heat from the Earth to generate enough electricity to sustain 60 million people

"Renewable energy is approaching a 'tipping point' and should expand dramatically in the next decade, further narrowing the gap between alternative forms of energy and fossil fuel use," said environmental and economic experts at a Washington, DC forum this June. In 2006, renewable energy sources accounted for 18 percent of global energy consumption, a figure that is surely on the rise as global investment in renewable energy grew by $30 billion between 2004 and 2007 alone, adds OneWorld.net's Jazmine Rodriguez, who reported from the event.

Solar power and geothermal energy gains popularity in United States and Kenya and Indonesia respectively in plugging the earth as a source of renewable energy.

Philippines is not only exposed to flesh that can unleash man's inner heat but also to solar energy for almost six months. Not to mention the exploration of her core from which naturally occurring isotopes such as those of uranium, thorium, and potassium being part of the Ring of Fire can produce heat energy that is 50,000 times greater than the energy content of all oil and natural gas resources.

Power generation using the earth’s heat required underground pockets of high-temperature water or steam to drive a steam turbine. Now, new technologies that use liquids with low boiling points in closed-loop heat exchange systems allow electricity to be generated at much lower temperatures. This breakthrough is making geothermal power generation viable in countries such as Germany that are not known for their geothermal resources and is one reason why the number of countries using the earth’s heat to generate electricity could almost double by 2010.

One advantage of this new source of energy is that the US need not have to bomb middle east countries to gain exclusive control over their natural resources to perpetuate their war economy. But I cannot assure that these new energy sources can stop them from doing so. One thing I can consider making love not war can produce the heat energy we need to sustain humanity to survive.