Energy: From a waste model, towards a sustainable model using renewable energy

Abstract

Renewable energy is related to the conception of sustainable development, which is related to the principles of conserving natural capital, equity, quality of life, ethical paradox, ecoform, integral management, inter and intragenerational solidarity, utopia and global political agenda. Likewise, its connection with the environmental, demographic, consumer, global, local, techno social and cultural dimensions. This paradigm can not be understood unless the capitalist consumerist model is understood first, in which society has been submerged since the time of the industrial revolution. This paper critically analyzes the role of science, technology and energy in the world, linked to the Latin American context in general and Nicaraguan in particular. Emphasis is also placed on the perspectives of renewable energies, properly on the small scale systems constituted by hybrid technologies such as photovoltaic solar wind for use in rural and urban areas.