Africa Needs Conventional Fuels not Windmills and Solar Panels

[lexity]

Africa Needs Conventional Fuels, Not Windmills and Solar Panels | Manuel Tacanho

The energy and climate goals that Western governments, the United Nations, and other organizations are pushing on Africa constitute a crippling blow to its economies. As the least developed region, Africa should unequivocally prioritize economic development.

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The energy and climate goals that Western governments, the United Nations, and other organizations are pushing on Africa constitute a crippling blow to its economies. As the least developed region, Africa should unequivocally prioritize economic development. One would think that amid energy poverty in Africa, Western governments and “development” institutions would prioritize energy security for African countries over energy transition.

African countries must have reliable, abundant, and cheap energy (e.g., fossil fuels) to accelerate economic development. Fossil fuels power economies and people’s lives. To deny these countries the possibility of developing with fossil fuels by imposing climate goals that the Western world itself fails to achieve is hypocritical. And malicious.

 

[Zophos]

Manuel Tacanho is founder of Afridom, a sound money based digital banking startup for Europe and Africa. He's also an advocate of free markets and sound money for Africa’s economic development.

Nice opinion piece...

 

[Lupus]

Windmills and Solar are not renewable, those need to be replaced after 15 to 20 years, they also never really produce anywhere near their stated capacities, they are ugly, they hamper development and end up costing consumers more.
But hey the greenies will have you believe they are carbon free, just look at Germany, pushing the highest Carbon emissions in Europe, yet they are "green"

 

[die_koos]

I always think it's a bit rich of the "Developed World" to try and force Africa to use expensive "renewables" after they have spent the last 100 years pumping the air full of pollution while burning cheap fossil fuels extracted with what was essentially slave labor.

But we should be smart about it at least. Figure out what has the best overall benefit for us to use, not just the greenest.

 

[lexity]

I always think it's a bit rich of the "Developed World" to try and force Africa to use expensive "renewables" after they have spent the last 100 years pumping the air full of pollution while burning cheap fossil fuels extracted with what was essentially slave labor.

But we should be smart about it at least. Figure out what has the best overall benefit for us to use, not just the greenest.

If mother earth can survive the amount and kind of toxic material spewed into the atmosphere by a single volcanic eruption, we are not even a blip.

That doesn't mean industry isn't guilty of pollution, but would you expect anything different from industry, when decision-makers pay no price for being wrong?

Consumers stopped voting with their feet. Next thing you know, the incompetent are flourishing at the expense of the politically unconnected. The consumer then doubles down. That is corruption of the consumer.

 

[lexity]

Interesting stat:

Asthmatic Rate: Over fifty per cent of islanders have partial evidence of asthma and twenty-three per cent have a definite diagnosis

This is Tristan da Cunha, (allegedly) the most remote inhabited island in the world. https://www.tristandacunha.org/

But it is a volcanic island.

p.s. Not saying correlation is causation. I don't know what the cause is.

 

[Koosvanwyk]

If mother earth can survive the amount and kind of toxic material spewed into the atmosphere by a single volcanic eruption, we are not even a blip.

What a load of sh@t, where do you get this from.

 

[Polymathic]

African needs what it can get

 

[lexity]

What a load of sh@t, where do you get this from.

Sorry, I just repeated that verbatum, it's not a scientific term.

By 'mother earth' I just meant 'the earth'... and all life forms on/in it.

'Mother earth' is more of religious term.

 

[wingnut771]