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Quo Vadis East African Gas?
Gas majors Anadarko Petroleum, ENI and BG Group have discovered over 100 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas reserves off the coasts of Mozambique and Tanzania. Could these discoveries make East Africa as big of an energy exporter as Nigeria?[read more]
Video alert: When the Water Ends
When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts: For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their...[read more]
Fighting poverty and global warming in Africa
Rarely do you find a business that attacks two big problems–global poverty and climate change–at the same time. This week, I came across two such ventures. As it happens, they have a lot in common: Both operate in East Africa, both work with the very poor, both were started by executives who came out of the fossil-fuel industry and both...[read more]
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“It is a false argument to compare to the USA experience: their reductions are caused by the switch to gas thanks to the present abundance of shale gas.Regarding the ETS: Don't blame the hammer for being a bad screwdriver! The ETS is doing exactly what you can expect from a cap-and-trade program. It decreases carbon emission following exactly the planned trajectory, for the lowest costs possible ...”
“It is going to take longer than 2 years to phase in any major extra supply to the grid.I'm sure in the longer term that solar, even by itself, could meet 100% of UK power. Several American company have started commercially converting sun light, water and CO2 into methanol with cyanobacterium, the methanol fuel can then be easily stored for use at 6PM on 12 of December.”