Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana does not need 'obroni wawu coal'

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• Kojo T 8 years ago

  Asare like all NPP look backwards never forwards.That is their problem His friend Prof Baah of KNUST would rather distribute cutlasses than design new machinery for farming .That is why they MST REMAIN in ...
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  Asare like all NPP look backwards never forwards.That is their problem His friend Prof Baah of KNUST would rather distribute cutlasses than design new machinery for farming .That is why they MST REMAIN in the bush as we push forward

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Greetings, Kojo T,
  
  No, Patrick Asare is not "Prof Asare" you reference.
  
  As discussed in the paper, the former is:
  
  "...manager of retail power marketing at UGI Energy Services, LLC, a diversified energy services firm ...
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  Greetings, Kojo T,
  
  No, Patrick Asare is not "Prof Asare" you reference.
  
  As discussed in the paper, the former is:
  
  "...manager of retail power marketing at UGI Energy Services, LLC, a diversified energy services firm in Pennsylvania, USA...".
  
  Thanks.

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• Maame Adwoa 8 years ago

  Ghana Is dying because of brain dead buffoons like you. What has this needless write up got to do with Profs Asare and Baah. You hate them because you presume they are Asantes, right? God will never show his mercies on you h ...
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  Ghana Is dying because of brain dead buffoons like you. What has this needless write up got to do with Profs Asare and Baah. You hate them because you presume they are Asantes, right? God will never show his mercies on you haters. Ewes have been looting our monies since Kwame Nkrumah era, and the looting reached its apex in the days of Rawlings, yet poverty is more pronounced is Eweland. That is the work of God. He will continue increase your pain and suffering so far as you continue to hate. Same applies to Northerners. 'Who jar bless no one curse'. God will continue to shower His blessings and greatest countenance on the much oppressed Asantes so far as they have big hearts to accommodate everyone, regardless of one's ethnicity and cultural background. They will continue to shine for the whole world to see. They use the shoeshine box to rise to riches. That is how God does his work. It is not by accident that all are being forced to speak Twi in Ghana just to gain recognition in Ghana. That is the great work of the mighty God. Refrain from your hateself and see the glory of God.

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  To Say...
  "...They are the same kinds of reasons coal and oil lobbyists, including “free” market entrepreneurs, and so-called conservative Republicans employ in the United States to deny that man is responsible for any h ...
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  To Say...
  "...They are the same kinds of reasons coal and oil lobbyists, including “free” market entrepreneurs, and so-called conservative Republicans employ in the United States to deny that man is responsible for any harm to the environment; that they themselves are not scientists but know that surely climate change is a farce concocted by activist scientists all over the globe..."

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• Francis kwarteng 8 years ago

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  Thanks for another excellent piece.

  Dear Prof. Lungu,
  
  Thanks for another excellent piece.

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• GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

  That MsLawley Prof.

  That MsLawley Prof.

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Greetings, GORGORDUTOR!
  
  Can you break that one down for us, "That MsLawley"!
  
  Rather novel to us.
  
  Thanks.

  Greetings, GORGORDUTOR!
  
  Can you break that one down for us, "That MsLawley"!
  
  Rather novel to us.
  
  Thanks.

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• GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

  Thanks Prof. Lungu's!!

  Thanks Prof. Lungu's!!

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• YAW 8 years ago

  A fine example of how other African countries are getting their acts together. Thanks Prof Lungu.
  
  
  Morocco’s king will switch on the first phase of a concentrated solar power plant on Thursday that will become the world ...
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  A fine example of how other African countries are getting their acts together. Thanks Prof Lungu.
  
  
  Morocco’s king will switch on the first phase of a concentrated solar power plant on Thursday that will become the world’s largest when completed.
  
  The power station on the edge of the Saharan desert will be the size of the country’s capital city by the time it is finished in 2018, and provide electricity for 1.1 million people.
  
  Noor 1, the first section at the town of Ouarzazate, provides 160 megawatts (MW) of the ultimate 580MW capacity, helping Morocco to save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
  
  “At around 2pm, the king will press a button, the parabolic mirrors will start turning, the heat will begin to turn the turbines and the plant will come to life,” said Maha el-Kadiri, a spokeswoman for Masen, Morocco’s renewable energy agency.
  
  
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  King Mohammed VI will then lay the foundations for Noor 2, the next stage of the solar complex. Noor 1 had been due to open in December but was delayed by unspecified “agenda concerns,” el-Kadiri said.
  
  After it is switched on, the plant will initially provide 650,000 local people with solar electricity from dawn until three hours after sunset.
  
  “It is a very, very significant project in Africa,” said Mafalda Duarte, the manager of Climate Investment Funds (CIF), which provided $435m (£300m) of the $9bn project’s funding. “Morocco is showing real leadership and bringing the cost of the technology down in the process.”
  
  The north African country plans to generate 42% of its energy from renewables by 2020, with one-third of that total coming from solar, wind and hydropower apiece.
  
  Morocco hopes to use the next UN climate change conference, which it hosts in November, as the springboard for an even more ambitious plan to source 52% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.
  
  “Between now and [the next conference], many projects will have come to light and we will prove that we can match our energy demands with renewables,” the country’s energy minister, Abdelkader Amara, said at a meeting during the Paris climate summit in December.
  The first phase of the solar complex , Noor 1, located at the “door of the desert” in the south-central Moroccan town of Ouarzazate
  Such a move would have regional implications. CIF estimates that if international banks and governments deployed another 5GW of solar energy, electricity production costs could fall by 14%. Scaling that up to 15GW would cut costs by 44%.
  
  Some $3.9bn has been invested in the Ouarzazate solar complex, including $1bn from the German investment bank KfW, $596m from the European Investment Bank and $400m from the World Bank.
  
  If the dreams of its architects are realised, the resulting energy will eventually be exported north to Europe, and eastwards to Mecca, as well as providing a secure source of energy at home.
  
  “Morocco knew their demand for electricity was growing at 7% a year and that they were dependent on imports for 97% of that energy,” Duarte said. “They had a vision to promote renewables at a time when oil prices were high and they undertook regulatory reforms, put institutions in place, and they have done a great job.”

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