Re: AFRICA "RICH IN SOLAR, WIND POWE POTENTIAL"

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Economic Democracy) wrote:

>Africa should use wind, sun
> 25/11/2003 14:49  - (SA)  
>
>Cape Town - The first global conference on wind energy to be held in
>Africa opened here with delegates saying the power-starved continent
>was using only a fraction of its potential.
>
>German MP Hermann Scheer, who doubles as the chair of the World
>Council for Renewable Energies, said weather conditions in Africa were
>far more favourable than in Europe or the United States for tapping
>renewable energy sources.

   Planning to live-out your eco-fantasies on a poor
   and powerless group of people ?

   The initial costs of setting-up wind and solar power
   systems is pretty damned high. Where are these poor
   nations going to get the money ? Oh wait ... I'll
   bet we're supposed to GIVE it to them ......