So, Hydro Power causes the Low Electric Rates.....

LetranKnight25, What about cockroaches? Well, to me they are potentially as lethal as uranium which can pose hazards to both the environment and health. Look at the current reactor leakage problems now which could escalate into another Chernobyl. Don't get me wrong that I am a non supporter here but you know how these things can be when people go about implementing it without the mandatory extensive researches like using uranium for nuclear power. Not sure, if you are aware but there is a lot of research going on using palm oil to propel our land mode transportation namely motor cars, cycles and lorries. However, I am concern what effects it might bring to the economy especially the world's agricultural scene and I just hate to see the ugly imbalance swing. Not forgetting, how it will drive these commodity's price to the skies. As for the solar panels, it is just interesting how slow the world has been adopting this around especially when this technology has been proven way ahead and beyond anything to fail. Then, now with the Bloombox - I wonder what's the future for all the nice beach resorts around the world when this become confirmed science.

Even though energy sources like that have been fully utilized by other countries around the world, I am not surprised that we haven't utilized such advancements yet. We even have a good supply to create our own power sources but, its just not present up to now. We can blame the government for such lack of initiative, heck, we can blame even the past few administrations that didn't give enough effort to materialize such good ideas. For the meantime, we just have to do our efforts to save electricity. If that means we have to turn off appliances that we don't use, we should do so. If that means we should spend time under the shade of a nice tree, I guess that wouldn't be a bad idea.

hi letran even here in the US our electric bills specially in the summer can be really high. here in ca we use a lot of electricity in the summer with all the vaious air conditioners going. and in a heat spell we often have rotating brown outs where variouus shops in the malls are asked to vountarly shut off power for so many hours. the shopkeepers dislike this as of course people are not going to shop in a darkened shop so they lose money. but if people would just push their thermostats up a little and not want frigid air they could save on electricity and would not be subject to the brown outs.

Well coal power plants harness its electricity from coals in which you spend money in mining, same with power plants that uses diesel. But hydro power plant is much cheaper, since water flows are free.

Yes, That is why meralco bill got higher last summer because of el niño. There are even more inventions that will help us to have cheaper electricity and that are also good for the environment but the problem is that our government lack attention to those things.

You mention cockroaches generating energy but funnily I read last year about hamsters doing just this!! I've managed to find an article about it - they won't be solving the world's power problems but it is quite cut!! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115020.htm

The solar panels and other stuff needed to sustain a Solar Power Plant are very expensive and that is without the maintenance budget for it. We can use solar power plants and windmill technology to power our electricity but I guess the government is afraid to lose tax money from Meralco and others. Add the fact where would we build such a big facility in the heart of Metro Manila I guess someone should make a study about it.