In this show there are no good and bad, but dreamy and realistic.
The dreamers are fighting for us to immediately switch to electricity from solar energy;
The realistic ones mention that it is not yet possible.
The dreamers say that Israel lags behind Northern Europe and other Western countries;
The realists mention that in these countries there are rivers from which hydraulic energy is produced 24 hours a day, and strong winds - from which energy is also produced most of the day.
So the comparison to our green solar energy is not really fair.
We too want peace, we too want green energy, but not everything can be now.
This debate is not only theoretical, but there is a real danger in it: the dreamers are trying to skip steps on the way to achieving the common vision for all, and in doing so they are only delaying its realization.
The environmental organizations that have delayed the natural gas reform are responsible for burning coal today, which still accounts for a quarter of Israel's energy.
The right destination for Israel in terms of the environment - and also economically - should have been a rapid transition to natural gas.
Of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, oil shale, etc.), natural gas is considered the cleanest.
But no less, he is blue-and-white.
Many dreamers like the idea of blue and white, but they fail to link it to the most precious and important resource our country has to offer - natural gas.
Had we been educated to develop this resource faster and implement it, along with a rapid transition to natural gas-powered stations, the air would have been cleaner today and our dependence on energy imports would have diminished.
The transition to solar energy can not be as fast as the previous government determined, easy and material that it can not be faster.
Supplying clean electricity for a few hours a day does not obviate the need for traditional power stations.
Therefore, these are investments that are almost purely experimental.
Until we learn to store energy, these stations deserve to be charging stations for electric vehicles, as a Chinese car company is planning in the country right now.
Such stations will reduce the load on power stations and immediately begin the revolution that everyone is hoping for.
Just give it time to happen.
It does not need moral preaching to materialize faster, but rather technological developments that will enable energy to be stored in larger quantities.
