Comments on: CPH Day 2: Climate Drama http://afromusing.com/2009/12/16/cph-day-2-climate-drama/ Africa and Beyond! Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vera Teglgaard http://afromusing.com/2009/12/16/cph-day-2-climate-drama/comment-page-1/#comment-146249 Vera Teglgaard Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:38:41 +0000 http://afromusing.com/?p=736#comment-146249 This video shows the Christmas tree in the Town Hall Square of Copenhagen on the 30th November, when the star in the top of the tree is lit, marking the start of the Christmas season. In the end of the video you see the bulbs on the tree powered from people pedalling. No snow that day. ;-)But we have a lot of snow now, it has hardly stopped snowing since it started mid December. I am glad to be leaving the cold vinter behind next Wednesday and head towards the warmer climate in Burkina Faso. :-) This video shows the Christmas tree in the Town Hall Square of Copenhagen on the 30th November, when the star in the top of the tree is lit, marking the start of the Christmas season. In the end of the video you see the bulbs on the tree powered from people pedalling. No snow that day. ;-) But we have a lot of snow now, it has hardly stopped snowing since it started mid December. I am glad to be leaving the cold vinter behind next Wednesday and head towards the warmer climate in Burkina Faso. :-)

]]> By: John Karanja http://afromusing.com/2009/12/16/cph-day-2-climate-drama/comment-page-1/#comment-146154 John Karanja Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:24:21 +0000 http://afromusing.com/?p=736#comment-146154 Kenya's use of renewable energy is about 75% renewable if I am not wrong, albeit we only produce 1,200 Megawatts a year while small Denmark does about 35,000MW a year. However we as Africa are in a bit of a fix because we dont have Green technologies and the West will sell them to us expensively. My view is that we use the resources we have say Sudan's and Uganda's oil and our Coal to develop our economy and capacity to innovate quickly(What China is doing) instead of waiting for the benevolence of the west which might no be forthcoming given the financial climate. This i accept is a less popular view but i am afraid it is the only one that makes social economic sense to me. We can only guarantee our own survival by developing rapidly using the energy sources are easily accessible to us. Kenya’s use of renewable energy is about 75% renewable if I am not wrong, albeit we only produce 1,200 Megawatts a year while small Denmark does about 35,000MW a year.

However we as Africa are in a bit of a fix because we dont have Green technologies and the West will sell them to us expensively.

My view is that we use the resources we have say Sudan’s and Uganda’s oil and our Coal to develop our economy and capacity to innovate quickly(What China is doing) instead of waiting for the benevolence of the west which might no be forthcoming given the financial climate.

This i accept is a less popular view but i am afraid it is the only one that makes social economic sense to me.

We can only guarantee our own survival by developing rapidly using the energy sources are easily accessible to us.

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