http://inhabitat.com/rwanda-taps-volcano-power-beneath-exploding-lake/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Sat, 25 May 2013 19:09:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/rwanda-taps-volcano-power-beneath-exploding-lake/comment-page-1/#comment-348620 Kim Novak Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:39:18 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=150671#comment-348620 The story is relevant but unfortunately too superficial to even add value to the real debate. The saga of Lake Kivu is decades old and has been extensively studied by local authorities and international institutions like EAWAG from Switzerland. An expert group was appointed including these academics as well as engineers. Their findings are published and will form the regulatory basis for gas extraction from the lake, in a way that minimises the threat of a gas eruption in the future. Developers are advised to use designs that produce power and only release a necessary minimum of gas to atmosphere to mitigate the danger of eruption. Some developers can, and some cannot. Unfortunately the authorities have no had the know-how and political will to sort good from bad developers and the result could be lighting the fuse of a catastrophic eruption. ContourGlobal may be the worst offender thus far. The story is relevant but unfortunately too superficial to even add value to the real debate. The saga of Lake Kivu is decades old and has been extensively studied by local authorities and international institutions like EAWAG from Switzerland. An expert group was appointed including these academics as well as engineers. Their findings are published and will form the regulatory basis for gas extraction from the lake, in a way that minimises the threat of a gas eruption in the future. Developers are advised to use designs that produce power and only release a necessary minimum of gas to atmosphere to mitigate the danger of eruption. Some developers can, and some cannot. Unfortunately the authorities have no had the know-how and political will to sort good from bad developers and the result could be lighting the fuse of a catastrophic eruption. ContourGlobal may be the worst offender thus far.

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