Somalia is the said the have the highest Global potential for wind energy in the world

[anonymous34]

Along with Patagonia. Somalia has the highest global potential for wind energy. As you can see on the map.

Very interesting

 

[government]

I don't like wind turbines there are other better alternatives

 

[Apollo]

We have Dhuusamareeb after all.

 

[anonymous34]

I don't like wind turbines there are other better alternatives

What dont you like about wind turbines?
You can put wind turbines in sea. Quite far from land, and still harness the power.

 

[dhegdheer]

Imagine all the energy created if we managed to build loads of wind turbines and solar panels everywhere

I want us to focus on sustainable energy so badly smh

 

[government]

What dont you like about wind turbines?
You can put wind turbines in sea. Quite far from land, and still harness the power.

It creates noise pollution plus it kills many birds there are better cleaner energy sources

 

[anonymous34]

It creates noise pollution plus it kills many birds there are better cleaner energy sources

We are in 2017. Wind turbines today are not the same as wind turbines from the 1990s. Wind turbines are becoming smaller, quieter and more sustainable.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-blades-efficient-small-turbines.html

 

[government]

We are in 2017. Wind turbines today are not the same as wind turbines from the 1990s. Wind turbines are becoming smaller, quieter and more sustainable.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-blades-efficient-small-turbines.html

They still kill many birds plus these are more expensive than solar panels. I'd support wind turbines if we found a way to prevent birds and bats crashing into them

 

[dhegdheer]

My work is partnering up with this foundation and they're doing amazing work bringing susteinable energy to 3rd world countries
https://www.barefootcollege.org/

'Solar Mamas': Barefoot College women turn on the lights in off-grid villages
Besides learned to install and repair solar equipment, rural women at India's Barefoot College can learn about clean water, health care, handicrafts, communication, and more.

Train a grandmother, change the world” – so says Barefoot College’s motto. This school says nobody's better suited to bring solar power to the rural poor.

Last year, the New York Times reported on the unlikeliest of heroes: African women who travel to the Barefoot College in India to learn to become solar engineers. This year, a BBC documentary Solar Mamas recounted the story of one Bedouin woman who makes the trek from Jordan and eventually electrifies her village and her life.

Founded in 1972 on Ghandian principles of grass-roots change, Barefoot College is the brainchild of Bunker Roy. The NGO is built around a crucial insight that rural women are less likely than men to leave their families and communities, and more likely to implement the knowledge and skills they learn at school. Solar electrification is only one area of training; others include clean water, education and livelihood development, health care, rural handicrafts, and communication.

Although Roy never envisioned the college to expand beyond India, the Sierra Club reports that “since 2004, the Barefoot College, in Tilonia, India, has trained ... illiterate and semi-literate women from rural, unelectrified villages in 41 [now 48] countries to be solar engineers.”

"Susanna Huis arrived back in Namibia in September and waited for her solar-engineering equipment to arrive by ship from India.... The next year looked to be busy but financially stable: Local people will each pay her $5 per month for the power, which is roughly what they would spend on kerosene or firewood. If she needs spare parts they will be sent from India. While her husband continues to farm their smallholding, she is now the family breadwinner.... She has signed a contract that commits her to electrifying 100 homes and maintaining them for the next five years. And she will teach others how to do it. This means that she can't move away from her village, which is fine with her: she doesn't want to go anywhere else."

Solar Hooyos

I'm hoping to volunteer sometimes later this year ngl

 

[anonymous34]

They still kill many birds plus these are more expensive than solar panels. I'd support wind turbines if we found a way to prevent birds and bats crashing into them

Wind turbine companies are coming up with solutions to kill less birds and bats.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/birds-bats-wind-turbines-deadly-collisions/



Also solar panels are infact more expensive then BOTH wind and hydroelectric power
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531841/why-solar-is-much-more-costly-than-wind-or-hydro/

 

[dhegdheer]

My work is partnering up with this foundation and they're doing amazing work bringing susteinable energy to 3rd world countries
https://www.barefootcollege.org/



Solar Hooyos

I'm hoping to volunteer sometimes later this year ngl

Sticking solar panels on top of ur guri somali

 

[government]

Wind turbine companies are coming up with solutions to kill less birds and bats.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/birds-bats-wind-turbines-deadly-collisions/



Also solar panels are infact more expensive then BOTH wind and hydroelectric power
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531841/why-solar-is-much-more-costly-than-wind-or-hydro/

Great job i hope they tackle that issue soon

 

[XamarCade]

Millions of birds manage to run into wind turbines every year, this bird brought this on himself

It creates noise pollution plus it kills many birds there are better cleaner energy sources

 

[GeKo]

Wind and Solar potential in Somalia is promising

 

[felloff]

Dp world should of spent the berbera money wind farms and monoplise the electricity industry since they want to take advantage of our resource might aswell go the whole 9 yards take over electricity water and infrastructure i fear they will colonise us or make us a protectorate

 

[Steamdevolopment]

Dp world should of spent the berbera money wind farms and monoplise the electricity industry since they want to take advantage of our resource might aswell go the whole 9 yards take over electricity water and infrastructure i fear they will colonise us or make us a protectorate

We can't really blame them, but then there are members of this site clapping for it, that is the REAL shame

 

[Steamdevolopment]

Also Somalia has huge potential for solar.

Average insolation stands at 5-7 kWh/ m2/day. With over 3,000 hours of high and constant sunlight annually, Somalia is ideally placed to utilise solar energy. Solar resources have been utilised for off-grid generation in the country, as well as for water heating for municipal buildings. Solar cooking has also seen some uptake in the country, and solar power is seen as the energy source of choice for the rehabilitation of many municipal buildings in the country, particularly health centres.



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