The government should use "carrot and stick" to solve the power shortage
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 10:18 am
While these physical energy-saving measures are necessary, we also believe it is important to raise awareness of energy conservation, and so we held an energy-saving idea contest for students, with the aim of publicizing the ideas to students in particular. The energy-saving ideas presented there could be roughly categorized into the following three types.
The first group is about physically reducing power consumption. As mentioned above, this includes refraining from using elevators and switching to electrical appliances that consume less power (such as LEDs). These remove background image directly reduce power consumption and are the first things that come to mind for many people.
However, these require some cost, and if construction is required, they will not be ready in time for this summer. For example, solar power generation systems that use sunlight are certainly effective as natural energy sources in addition to conventional energy conservation. However, simply lining up solar panels on a campus will naturally limit their use as an energy source to when sunlight is available, during sunny daytime hours.
In order to make the solar energy source usable all the time, a storage battery is also needed in addition to the solar panels, which entails considerable costs. Moreover, the storage battery is difficult to obtain.
The first group is about physically reducing power consumption. As mentioned above, this includes refraining from using elevators and switching to electrical appliances that consume less power (such as LEDs). These remove background image directly reduce power consumption and are the first things that come to mind for many people.
However, these require some cost, and if construction is required, they will not be ready in time for this summer. For example, solar power generation systems that use sunlight are certainly effective as natural energy sources in addition to conventional energy conservation. However, simply lining up solar panels on a campus will naturally limit their use as an energy source to when sunlight is available, during sunny daytime hours.
In order to make the solar energy source usable all the time, a storage battery is also needed in addition to the solar panels, which entails considerable costs. Moreover, the storage battery is difficult to obtain.