Solar Panel Discussions

Electricity in Africa......?

I was shocked to hear that because of dangers to the enviroment people in Africa will only be able to use Solar Panels or wind turbines to generate electricity.....This basically means some of the poorest people in the world will be forced to use the most expensive and ineffective means of producing electricity. (It really means Africa won't have electricity)

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to see this film. I had heard something about it, but would not otherwise have been able to see it for myself. We read about how mediaeval minds were controlled, but it is particularly shocking that in an era where people are largely considered to be educated such theories as this are not only put about but are to be believed and accepted by society, despite evidence to he contrary. If Solar Power can be used to provide energy in remote areas where otherwise it simply could not be made available, then costly or not, it would evidently be a good thing. If, however, it is intended to replace what is a regular, albeit not very reliable existing source of power (I have memories of those long power cuts from when I lived in Africa), then the expense factor would suggest that this is not something to be promoted and encouraged. There seemed, however, to be a suggestion that all Africans had an inalienable right to an electricity supply. The fact is, they have had to build their lives around the impossibility of this happening in remote areas and have coped well. One would like to see it happening in due course, but it cannot be in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the move seems to be towards getting us into a position where these aparatchiks will have total control of our power supply and will dictate to us exactly what we may or may not do. What happened to freedom?