Hamad Alrewaily, the author of Qatar Heavens.  Right: BOOK COVER: Qatar Heavens presents Alrewaily’s Optimum Vision Solution for humanity’s survival challenges.

By Umer Nangiana

With overpopulation and shrinking of resources, mankind is faced with a taut challenge to its survival on the planet in the times to come. While many in the world are already exploring ways to counter these challenges or to find alternative options, this young Qatari scholar has offered, what he calls, an “Optimum Vision Solution (OVS)”.
Putting forward this vision in his recently published book, Qatar Heavens, Hamad Alrewaily argues that only exploration and colonisation of space offers a foolproof solution to both the current overpopulation and peak oil problems the earth faces today.
An Electronics and Communications Engineer by profession, and a researcher and writer by passion, Alrewaily believes that the movement into space provides a great potential for replacement of energy sources for earth. This includes the nearby acquisition of H3 for safe nuclear fusion and the increased energy potential from extraterrestrial solar panels, which can be five times more potent outside the earth’s atmosphere.
“Space exploration and colonisation, including terraforming, will create new pastures to cultivate food supplies to feed the earth’s expanding population. This will lead us to the Optimum Vision Solution. OVS is needed to achieve our major goals as humans and to avoid future problems like energy, overpopulation and catastrophe,” says the author.
Unlike most visions, Alrewaily’s OSV does not put itself under any limitations, whether vertical or horizontal; in terms of time or elements in its foundation. However, it covers all of them.
His vision wants incorporation of space technologies into humanity’s plans for the future as an essential part. “A truly “Optimum Vision Solution” will assure a bright economic future for Qatar and will also provide realistic hope for a long and prosperous future for humanity,” he says.
Putting his more than three years’ worth of research into perspective, Alrewaily says that the space technology of the last five decades has put man on the moon, in orbit and, through remote viewing devices, on the surface of Mars.
“Just as it has produced a multitude of spin-offs that have become incorporated into our everyday life, so too will the concentration on further developing string theory, the mathematics of wormholes and the technology of particle physics or high-energy physics machines producing spin-offs that will quickly become incorporated into our burgeoning technology for the exploration and colonisation of space,” he argues.
These specific technological pursuits can also augment the greater goal of benefiting both Qatar and the world by working toward those solutions most needed for mankind’s problems, the solutions of space exploration and colonisation, new energy resources, and a unifying purpose to align all nations in a new era of global harmony and partnership, he adds.
Space, he says, is the final frontier for humans. How we plan to conquer it and go about it is given in his book, Qatar Heavens.
“It is a strategy or a path or a guideline, whatever you call it. Heavens here means space or universe. The term in the title is meant to be catchy and attractive for the people,” Alrewaily tells Community in a recent chat.
He has written the book in a simple way so that everyone can read it. “It is written in the form of a story like the story of a young Qatari who is living in one part of earth (Qatar). I wanted to communicate the idea to to students, economists, academicians and all other people,” the author says.
It is also a realisation of one of his dreams. He says he decided to write the book at a time when Qatar is changing rapidly with a vision for future. “I wanted to contribute to my country and towards this process of progress. I wanted to give back to my country as it has given me a lot. I was also inspired and influenced by the current environment and our vision 2030,” says Alrewaily.
The book has been published in the United States and is available on Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. It was launched in Qatar at the 25th Qatar International Book Fair that recently concluded here. For anyone in Qatar and elsewhere, the book is available online. The author says he is also planning to make it available in some of the bookstores here soon.
However, it can be accessed online and is available in different formats. Besides a printed edition, it is available in Kindle, Nook and PDF versions.
Alrewaily has worked for Qatar Petroleum for 10 years and is currently working for Qatar National Broadband Network. He is also the founder and CEO of Ticketfun (www.ticketfun.me), with which he intends to change the events’ experience in Qatar.
Alrewaily says that for him it is very important that people consider space and thus Qatar Heavens as an important strategy for future. We should not close our eyes to the future and worry only about our present. We need to have a thorough vision for future encompassing all aspects including energy, economics and, ultimately human survival, he says.


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