NU#9 Take Advantage of the Typhoons: Convert a Calamity Prone Area to your Advantage through Tidal Wave Energy by Jane Labarrete

Take Advantage of the Typhoons:  Convert a Calamity Prone Area to your Advantage through Tidal Wave Energy From an Ondoy experience, I can't help but think how can typhoons that can be so damaging to be converted to our advantage. Typhoons can cause millions or even billions of pesos in damage. Buildings slide down hillsides; valleys flood; villages disappear under landslides and mud slides; roads and bridges are washed away; crops become waterlogged, or are blown over or uprooted, or covered in mud. So with all these mentioned, how can you avoid something inevitable? Top of the list would be Malabon, Batanes and Bicol who often experience and suffer during the typhoon and to put into record the depleting resource of geothermal energy in the Philippines according to EDC that why I believe it's time to explore other sources of clean energy and one of them is Tidal wave energy which is produced through the use of tidal energy generators. These large underwater turbines are placed in areas with high tidal movements, and are designed to capture the kinetic motion of the ebbing and surging of ocean tides in order to produce electricity. Tidal power has great potential for future power and electricity generation because of the massive size of the oceans. Since typhoons are already stabled on some areas of the Philippines exploring this type of clean energy can be explored to take typhoons in our advantage. To add, this can also address shortage of energy in Mindanao. This will not only add a source and sustain the growing demands of electricity of Filipinos. It is just important to properly place and secure the equipments in sea beds to endure destructive typhoons. This idea can be costly but when implemented it can generate cheap cost of electricity. Just like in Economics, the more the supply the more the cost goes down. This can probably solve our long agony for rising prices of electricity in the country.4 By Jane Labarrete