Kenya´s electricity supply a big joke.

[mwaikibaki]

Sasa tunaongea siyo hiyo Ukubaffu ya mbeleni.

Imagine guys if we discussed real issues everyday hmm how far would we be.

Check this out Kites can power cities. Or can’t they?|johnkaranja.com

This what we need in Kenya its cheaper than the windmills they are about to put up in Turkana.

Now we meed a serious railway link with Uganda and Rwanda.

Rwanda is the country to watch in 10 years it will be crazy developed. I am trying to raise some money to buy a Kiwanja there....

[Ni_Diambo]

Our biggest problem is that we hardly ever follow anything through. Some of the reports and policy papers written by our bureaucrats and researchers are first class. But implementation is another story altogether. Our people are some of the best, but our politics are scaring them off. We’ve seen the miracles our engineers have done on roads in southern Africa. Ochuodho’s IT stuff in Rwanda etc. We need to harness these resources for a massive thrust at home.

Back to energy. I think aligning ourselves with countries like India, China, Brazil and Turkey would be far more useful than looking at western technologies. Look at the coal we are talking about, for jikos. We are not going to leap from makaa to clean coal technologies, in say, Kipkelion. We simply need an immediate one-to-one replacement: Makaa out, coal in. Then the refining into cleaner and appropriate technologies can follow. We would then start saving our immediate physical environment – forests, rivers etc. The appropriate technologies will take care of air.

Then our generated energy would initially focus on lighting and industrial utility. Look guys, we need energy only for real work. We don’t need energy for heating or air conditioning – a major expense in the higher latitudes. With such basic needs, we shouldn’t be having problems with energy.

Someone mentioned Rwanda. I think that's a country to watch. With a focused President, keen on recovering lost time, those guys are galloping. And the place is small - much easier to cover the whole country in development projects. The man may well be studying the Singapore blueprint.

Way to go Kagame!

[Jaugenya]

Originally Posted by Ni_Diambo

Our biggest problem is that we hardly ever follow anything through. Some of the reports and policy papers written by our bureaucrats and researchers are first class. But implementation is another story altogether. Our people are some of the best, but our politics are scaring them off. We’ve seen the miracles our engineers have done on roads in southern Africa. Ochuodho’s IT stuff in Rwanda etc. We need to harness these resources for a massive thrust at home.

Back to energy. I think aligning ourselves with countries like India, China, Brazil and Turkey would be far more useful than looking at western technologies. Look at the coal we are talking about, for jikos. We are not going to leap from makaa to clean coal technologies, in say, Kipkelion. We simply need an immediate one-to-one replacement: Makaa out, coal in. Then the refining into cleaner and appropriate technologies can follow. We would then start saving our immediate physical environment – forests, rivers etc. The appropriate technologies will take care of air.

Then our generated energy would initially focus on lighting and industrial utility. Look guys, we need energy only for real work. We don’t need energy for heating or air conditioning – a major expense in the higher latitudes. With such basic needs, we shouldn’t be having problems with energy.

Someone mentioned Rwanda. I think that's a country to watch. With a focused President, keen on recovering lost time, those guys are galloping. And the place is small - much easier to cover the whole country in development projects. The man may well be studying the Singapore blueprint.

Way to go Kagame!

I couldn´t put it any better.

Ofcourse Kagame is taking Rwandans to the right direction.

[pirates of mogadishu]

Ni Diambo in the first place i am notquite sure about even our coal reserves in Kitui is sustainable to warant fueling coal fired plants.

Kenya and China to collaborate on coal exploitation - Kenya - Development - Energy - China - Africa

If the preliminary analysis shows that coal in Mui basin, Kitui is sustainable i.e can maintain coal fired power plant for say 15 yrs, then we will be on right track. Preliminary analysis has shown that Kenyan coal is even of better quality than that of South Africa.

In the country i am in, energy analysts did laboratory exp on coal from many countries including S Africa, Australia, South America and Indonasia. They ascertained that the best coal was from South Africa !! So if ours is better than S Africa then its simply ranked among the best in terms of quality.

Have we ever thought of even Putting up a waste to energy incinerator. I believe Nairobi city provides enough domestic waste to fire a power plant which can provide us with electricity for 24 hrs (2000 Tonnes of waste generated daily in Nairobi). The reduced waste in form of fly ash can then be burried in Land fills, instead of disporsing it in Dandora where its a health hazard to people and a polluter to the environment.