...hat work with Kenya’s agricultural and environmental sectors. Despite these good intentions, the Nairobi International Trade Fair has a hidden underbelly, which tells an entirely different story: exploitation of the water and electricity supply of nearby slums. The fair is nestled between Kibera to the east and Jamhuri to the west, which are considered some of the world’s worst urban slums. These blighted neighborhoods also unwillingly provide m...
...r promise for the future. Although there are certainly legitimate concerns about using nuclear energy, it is an alternative with great potential and depths to be plumbed. The US uses nuclear energy for twenty percecnt of its electricity. With over 800 net megawatt-hours, it is the country with the most nuclear energy capacity. This is commendable, but the country should take note of its peers. Eighty percent of France’s electricity is generate...
...and improve living conditions in myriad ways, boosting productivity and efficiency in everything from agriculture to medicine to transportation to telecommunications. Today, 1.3 billion people do not have access to access to electricity, and 2.6 billion do not have access to clean cooking facilities. These people are mainly in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Just ten countries account for two-thirds of the population without access to el...
...organizations and programs on energy access are not a measure of progress. Progress consists of the number of households and families freed from energy poverty and the number of people who now have access to small amounts of electricity, modern lighting, and improved cooking. Period, full stop. Meetings, declarations, and studies can be helpful, but these are not and cannot be the measures of progress. What needs focus is not the Year of Energy...
...the viability of tools such as the internet, in creating significant political change depends greatly on political will, among other circumstances. Science and technology also include a host of necessary services—phone lines, electricity, transportation, etc.—which are lacking in too many places around the world. That being said, one only needs to look at the developments of the last few months to realize the impact that access to basic services...
...ive populist message that formed some of the muscle in the Democrats’ legs this year can provide some semblance of sustainability and, more importantly, a big sense of appeal. In our conversation, Nichols compared populism to electricity. He said, “It’s the energy that powers our politics. Popular appeals help parties to win, help candidates to get elected.” If they choose to evince areal progressive populism in unapologetic terms, the Demo...
...ngers even as practical concerns over safety have dissipated. The industry has achieved an exemplary safety and capacity utilization record of late. Through turbine upgrades, greater capacity utilization, and uprating, annual electricity generation from US nuclear plants reached an all-time high in 2004, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. Yet, it has been a decade since the last new reactor came on-stream—W...
from Wikimedia Commons Imagine, the day after Hurricane Sandy, the US Department of Defense airlifting generators to dangerously electricity-lacking hospitals and to the millions of people without power in their homes. Imagine the city government slashing the 9.5 percent unemployment rate by hiring tens of thousands of New Yorkers to climb the towering public housing projects to search for people who couldn’t leave their homes and to coordinate...
...er the past few years – undercutting “green” legislation and climate research in favor of developing its fossil fuel industry. If Russell Skelton, chief executive and managing director of Macquarie Generation, the state-owned electricity producer that has been dubbed the biggest carbon emitter in Australia, believes that the carbon tax system “may force the industry to explore different options,” then perhaps Gillard is on the right track....
...States is expected to become the world’s largest oil producer. And this oil is being produced in cleaner and more efficient ways than ever before. Haliburton has developed a hydraulic fracturing machine that uses gravity and electricity generated from solar panels to send sand down to fracture seams. GE has developed the Mobile Evaporator, a mobile boiler that can be transported from well to welland can clean around 50 gallons of water per minut...
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