March 17, 2015
If Not the Fire Then the Freezer
Tweet Some bunnies have noticed that Matt King Cole, Bjorn Lomborg and the ignorati from the Breakthrough Institute and yet others are crocadiling about how Africa needs coal to generate electricity, never mind that right now the majority of the countryside and small villages would do better with solar or wind. Â As Eli has pointed out , this is mostly because the costs of building out the distribution network is not zero, far from it, and small village based solar powered grids are less expensive. Of course, none of these folks figure in the costs and difficulties of maintaining an electrical, gas or electric transmission network in these countries, where people have the habit of borrowing power, power lines and gas
