Living in the Darkness

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IMAGINE JUST A SECOND

How would be living without Internet?

How would be if you come back home, and there is not TV, no warmwater and no light?

If you need some medical assistance, but only thing that doctors can do

for you is give you some prescriptions. There is not way to make

medical analysis, studies or storage some kinds of drugs.

Even more, imagine you can not store your food, because there is not

way to keep it cold.

No TV, no phone, no electronic devices.

How would you feel?


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BUT IT IS NOT A FANTASY

This is the reality for a lot of Colombian people, because they live too

far away from big urban centers, they have not 24 hours electricservice.

Even more, there are some town where the people have never seen a

shinning bulb ever.

They just have to live as XIX century people used to live. Only with

burners and oil lamps to defeat the darkness.


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AND WHAT ALL THIS IS A PROBLEM?

Maybe some people think that living without electric power it is not the

worst thing ever. Surely It is not, but the difficulties that our compatriots have to

overcome, make their life extremely hard.

Labors we considerer simply footling, they shall make great effort to

accomplish. Food storage, cooking, washing laundry, studying and

other stuff.

They can not keep medical supplies cold, even more, there is not way to

treat serious diseases (not studies, no analysis). Ultrasound for a

pregnant lady, no way.

All this, with out mention the great advantages that our electronic

devices provide us, and they have not opportunity to access.


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BESIDES

Children at these towns have not a properly education system,

decreasing their chances to succeed.

Furthermore, this situation only help to increases the social gap

between the rural and urban population. In our country, it is just another explanation for our social conflict,

because, it provides reasons and human material to delinquency,

organize crime, and guerrillas.

Less OpportunitiesLess Preparation


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WHY ANYONE DOES ANYTHING?

Commonly, these towns and communities are too far away from the big

urban centers and even more, from the generation station. Because of that, the government said that implementing projects to

bring electric power to these village is simply very expensive, and now,

it is impossible to do it.

For that reason, these Colombian people are been forgotten for his own

government and the rest of their compatriots.


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MAPING THE PROBLEM


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BUT, WHAT CAN BE DONE?

In Colombia, there is a government institution in charge to provide

solutions and alternatives to non interconnected towns and village. TheIPSE (Instituto de Planificacin y Promocin de Soluciones Energticas

para las Zonas No Interconectadas).

The government had set for 2020, all the Colombian people around the

country will have 24 hours electric service.

To meet this objective, the IPSE had considered diferent kind of

solutions.


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FOSSIL FUEL

Installation of power plants based on gas, diesel, gasoline or coal near

the consumption centers.


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FOSSIL FUEL

Advantages

The combustion material is relatively cheap.

The equipment is already in Colombia.

Can be segregated easily.

Disadvantages

High levels of pollution.

High cost of installation in all non interconnected towns.

Transportation of combustion material to the generation center.


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CLEAN ENERGIES

Wind Power

Hidro Power

Solar Energy

Biomass


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INTERCONNECTION

Bring electrical energy to non- interconnected town and village

implementing the electrical structure.

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