Just before Christmas, in a quiz, I wrongly guessed that the biggest single source of electricity generation in the world was nuclear power. In fact it is hydro. With that in mind you might want to read about this potential project to use the Congo which could generate enough for all of Africa -but at what cost and how would it be transmitted, and lets not forget the issues about security of supply and the advantages of decentralisation. On the plus side it is at least a clean-ish source of power in greenouse gas terms [not totally because concrete, infrastructure, building etc will almost certainly use fossil fuels].
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Could a $50bn plan to tame this mighty river bring electricity to all of Africa?
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