Using Malta's natural resources for energy

Water shortage on the island has necessitated the building of reverse osmosis desalination plants to produce potable water from the sea. Our plants use a considerable amount of energy, making water an expensive commodity.

There is a solution that could help Malta, which has high humidity as well as excessive heat and wind. All these factors can help us produce water from the air by a process of desalination and condensation.

An architect by the name of Michael Pawlyn has successfully designed and built a structure that can do just that. Malta can therefore produce drinking water at hardly any cost at all.

One can read about this here: http://www.sindark.com/2007/09/10/desalination/.

Why are we not doing anything tangible to reduce our dependence on the costly and limited resource called oil when we are surrounded by all the resources we need - the wind, sun, humidity and sea?

Why don't we use Comino as a site for such projects as this desalination plant and heliostats that can help us generate electricity cheaply from the sun? In my humble opinion these are the projects we ought to prioritise.

The opera house, parliament building and City Gate projects can be dealt with later, once we get back on our feet financially having saved millions of euros by reducing our dependence on oil.