Posted on 03/26/2023 3:50:33 PM PDT by grundle
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because it's the only time there is power, to Nigeria where collapses of the grid are frequent, the reliable supply of electricity remains elusive across Africa.
The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa's 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth, energy experts warn.
In recent years South Africa's power generation has become so inadequate that the continent's most developed economy must cope with rolling power blackouts of eight to 10 hours per day.
Africa's sprawling cities have erratic supplies of electricity but large swaths of the continent's rural areas have no power at all. In 2021, 43% of Africans — about 600 million people — lacked access to electricity with 590 million of them in sub‐Saharan Africa, according to the International Energy Agency.
Investments of nearly $20 billion are required annually to achieve universal electrification across sub-Saharan Africa, according to World Bank estimates. Of that figure nearly $10 billion is needed annually bring power and keep it on in West and Central Africa.
There are many reasons for Africa's dire delivery of electricity including ageing infrastructure, lack of government oversight and a shortage of skills to maintain the national grids, according to Andrew Lawrence, an energy expert at the Witwatersrand University Business School in Johannesburg.
A historical problem is that many colonial regimes built electrical systems largely reserved for the minority white population and which excluded large parts of the Black population.
Today many African countries rely on state-owned power utilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
BUT all the scientists and engineers have moved to Europe.... Those were the ones on the boat... Right?
Uh, howze about nothing?
Yeah, but at least you got rid of the whites, so you have that going for you.
Bu they are the most advanced and intelligent people on earth that discovered everything. How can this be?
ship them all the EVs Americans don’t want
“A country needs to have enough scientists and engineers before it can have electricity.”
A country needs to get rid of its racist and Marxist government in order to have electricity. Killing and driving out the productive whites has its consequences.
“White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires. ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. ... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
It’s one of those “but no more mean tweets” situations.
It will be interesting to see where they’re at in 3-5 years IF not outside help.
Just build a windmill or two...
They need to learn how to code
Similar thread from yesterday, but the article blames switch to “green” energy:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4140849/posts
Soon the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa will be doing like Somalia. Digging up all their water, sewer and gas lines to sell as scrap iron.
So why don’t you have any power?
I once read an article about a group of tourists who visited a town in central Africa. The town had no electricity, but was near a large waterfall. An engineer in the group realized that a turbine placed under the waterfall would generate enough electricity for the entire town.
So the group raised money for a turbine. It never made it to the town. From the moment the turbine landed on the coast, local officials were demanding “transit fees” (bribes) to let the turbine pass.
The group payed the first fee. And then they paid another fee a little further down the road. And then another. Eventually the group ran out of money. The turbine was abandoned on the side of a road.
So there you go.
Ask your new Russian and Chinese pals.
“Yeah, but at least you got rid of the whites, so you have that going for you.”
So the Chinese have moved in.
Y’all think whites are racist, try dealing with Han Chinese.
Investing in power production is futile if the population is continually sabotaging power distribution, or stealing power.
It is also futile if the money meant for production and modernization is continually stolen through corruption.
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