Showing posts with label biofuel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biofuel. Show all posts
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Electricity in Africa: The dark continent
Few Africans in rural areas have access to electricity. Connecting them to national grids will be slow and expensive. Yet Lilliputian windmills, water mills, solar panels and biomass furnaces could have a big collective impact. The cost of lighting a shack takes 10% of income in the poorest households and the kerosene lamps are highly polluting. In response, the World Bank has rolled out “Lighting Africa”, an ambitious effort to get 250m of the poorest Africans on clean-energy lighting by 2030....
Aggreko, a company based in Scotland, is the world's biggest supplier of temporary electricity in the shape of back-up generators. It meets up to 50% of Uganda's power needs, and 10% of those of Kenya and Tanzania....
Other remedies for Africa's power shortages are more familiar but just as urgent: more efficient appliances, such as LED lighting
Source: Economist
What can you do? Give the gift of light.
Labels: biofuel, energy, kenya, power, technology Links to this post
Posted by Kevin Walker at 11/10/2007 09:46:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel
Google TechTalks March 29, 2006 - Vinod Khosla, visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy.
[Loband: Embedded Object Removed - http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-570288889128950913&hl=en-CA]
Labels: biofuel, energy Links to this post
Posted by josh_u at 5/17/2007 07:48:00 AM 0 comments
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)