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The Trump Administration Protested when Kenya Halted Construction of a Coal-Fired Power Plant:
When the Kenyan government had second thoughts about allowing the country's first coal-fired power plant, the Trump Administration's representative in the country protested.
U.S. Ambassador Kyle McCarter, a Trump appointee who previously served as a Republican state senator in Illinois, went on Twitter to argue in a string of tweets that coal is environmentally sound, that the plant would boost the country's economy and that a critical analysis of the plant from a clean energy think tank amounted only to the work of "highly paid protestors."
"Coal is the cleanest, least costly option," U.S. Ambassador Kyle McCarter wrote from his official Twitter last week. "Investors will come."
[...] McCarter['s] Twitter comments began on June 25, after Kenya's National Environmental Tribunal's announced that it would halt construction of the Lamu coal-fired power plant, which would have been the first such power plant in the country. The court said the project's planners had failed to engage the local community and argued that the environmental review conducted ahead of the project did not adequately address several environmental issues including the country's commitment to fighting climate change. The project could still be revived if a new environmental assessment adequately addresses the concerns laid out in the decision.
[...] The U.S. recently launched a program promoting investment in the region, intended to serve as a geopolitical counterweight to China's growing influence, and McCarter seemed to suggest that a coal-fired new power plant would advance U.S. investment. Still, on its face, the project raises questions about how it would serve U.S. interests over China's given that it is financed by China and would be built by Chinese developers.
In a contrast to McCarter's remarks, the Chinese ambassador to Kenya met with opponents of the coal-fired power plant on June 28 and told them that he supported the will of "the people of Kenya" to "decide whether there would be a coal power plant or not," according to a statement from activists.
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Associated Press, Guardian, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday July 25 2019, @08:39AM (9 children)
First, in TFS but lost an emphasis
Second, lost in editorialixing, a link which may cause some inflammation but does report a fact.
Donald Trump Renews Campaign against Wind Power with a New Claim [newsweek.com]: 'they say windmill noise causes cancer'
Reported in more places than I care to select from [google.com]
Yeah, windpower is a Hillary thing, so it's eeeevil. And causes cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 25 2019, @09:36AM (6 children)
Incredible, we're helping China (with supportive verbal spewage) to finance the modernization (including increased emissions) of developing countries.
Solar is more interesting than wind since it decentralizes power generation and is bitterly opposed by utility companies [nytimes.com]. But coal is not environmentally sound. Better build some next-gen nuclear or thorium instead.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday July 25 2019, @10:47AM (4 children)
They have a nuclear reactor in the sky already, called the sun. I guess Kenya could get away with painting a tank black, concentrate some sun rays on it, and get steam. Or use stirling engines on the difference between a sun exposed spot and an underground hole.
Photoelectric if you really want to be high tech.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 25 2019, @10:57AM (1 child)
I prefer photon capture and imprisonment to all this solar crap.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 25 2019, @02:55PM
Photon catch and release.
Catch and Release.
It's how some people date.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 25 2019, @11:48AM (1 child)
Concentrating solar. A bunch of mirrors, a tank of liquid salt, and bob's your uncle.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 25 2019, @07:35PM
That's a good idea for the Sahara. I'm not sure about Kenya. What's the weather like?
Actually, even in the Sahara you'd need to worry about sandstorms, and sand getting into the movable joints, etc., but those are old problems with decent solutions. You might need to pick your site carefully.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday July 25 2019, @11:59AM
Yeah, those backwater ideas of theirs.
Like what? 590MW already producing and 5,530 MW in 10 years of that childish geothermal plants? [wikipedia.org] Who do they think they are, get to a third of what US could get [wikipedia.org] with only 1/8 of US population and 3% of US GDP?
Then... go figure. Those Kenyans want 1GW of nuclear energy by 2022 and 4GW into 2030 [wikipedia.org].
Only the two above and it'd be enough for a... ummm, liberation action. That is, if they don't back off and get to use coal, like everybody does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday July 25 2019, @03:23PM (1 child)
The summary does not have to display every link. That is called summarizing. If you read the story itself all the links are there.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 25 2019, @09:55PM
I pick the linx I consider relevant for the context, you do what you feel you need to do, I react to what you do.
What's the problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford