Talk:Renewable energy in Africa

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Your intro paragraph reads more like a thesis than a summary. I recommend starting with a description of renewable energy in place in Africa, then moving to discuss future plans for implementation. Nathanthesaint 22:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I fixed some grammar and spelling issues down through "alternative energy options," but I suspect that the remainder of the article could use another look. Also, don't forget to take out your edit flags.. large portions of the page are not viewable currently unless you're logged in.Nathanthesaint 23:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC) i want chad —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.203.158.227 (talk) 13:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks like a salesman wrote the solar water pumping section —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.113.226.157 (talk) 23:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Someone needs to cover the problems with the use of renewable energy in africa, like the fact that the two most common types (wind and solar) are notoriously unreliable, and that it is frankly criminal to hold developing nations to a higher environmental standard than our own in the west. Forgive my bluntness, but please get your heads out of the sand--global warming is caused by ocean temp. memory and the fluctuations in solar wind over thousands of years, and has next to nothing to do with CO2 and human causality. for this reason alone, we should forge ahead with traditional (read: proven) technologies for generating power for the millions of Africans who are in critical need, until such time as our green technologies become viable. Please someone write a blurb on this. Until then, the best thing i can suggest is to visit "the great global warming swindle" on youtube for more info. the best video out there on the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.184.186 (talk) 16:32, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Desertec
The plug for Desertec in the introduction seems out of place in order to promote a certain page. Jayrossss (talk) 16:40, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Hydro Power
This entry ignores vast hydro power (micro and macro) potential and appears slanted towards solar technologies. Someone should edit the entire entry to give a balanced overview of all renewable technologies.Hydrokineticman (talk) 05:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Just 0.3% weasel-words
Just 0.3% of Africa is 29 times the size of Rhode Island or almost one-eighth of the state of Texas. It's 91 BILLION square meters or 22 million acres. The United States has 2.3 billion acres of land, including Alaska; we're talking about an area almost 1% the size of the U.S.. By definition, it's on average half of a U.S. state, although that's nonsense due to the variable size of U.S. states. It's the size of Maine!

In context, "Just 0.3%" comes after a discussion of how damned sunny Africa is&mdash;as if there is so much abundant insolation that it takes an incredibly-tiny amount of land area to power all of Europe. While a discussion of proportion is less-distorting than a discussion of raw numbers in large land masses, the tone of that section is a leading thought: "there is so much sun" that "it takes so little land to produce electricity!" --John Moser (talk) 18:07, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Suggestions
Hello! I'd like to offer some suggestions on ways to improve the flow and content of your page. To start off, I think the second paragraph of your lead should be saved for a separate section of its own. I think your idea of introducing renewable energy and its applications in Africa is enough to expound on in the introduction, and you could save the impact of renewable energy on the economy, society, and other areas of the country for a section near the end. I like how you dedicated a specific section to the discussion of renewable energy sources and how they pertain to Africa as it conveys some of the options available. I do however think you could add a hydroelectric power section to this area as well. You discuss wave and wind power on the coast which has a little bit to do with water, but I think it's worth mentioning the possibility of using hydroelectric plants to farm energy, especially on huge rivers like the Congo and the Nile. I also believe that the "horizontal integration potential" section should be moved into finance, maybe as a subdivision. It doesn't really mesh with the theme of renewable energy sources, but rather seems like a comment on costs that would go well with the finance section. I think it would also be worth creating a section noting NGO and homeland efforts to introduce renewable energy initiatives, although the content you have now in the "renewable energy use" section is strong. You used a solid amount of sources, and I learned a lot reading your contributions! Thanks, and I hope this helps future editing. Ojc1 (talk) 19:51, 3 September 2020 (UTC)