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But this cannot happen&nbsp;without the express agreement&nbsp;of, nor at the expense of&nbsp;the future prosperity&nbsp;for,&nbsp;the&nbsp;fifty-four&nbsp;nations of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because, simply,&nbsp;the future is Africa: our&nbsp;collective&nbsp;population of 1.3 billion today&nbsp;is&nbsp;projected&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1224205\/forecast-of-the-total-population-of-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double&nbsp;by&nbsp;2050<\/a>\u2013&nbsp;surely a&nbsp;conservative estimate when a&nbsp;new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-58810551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaccine for malaria<\/a>&nbsp;(a&nbsp;greater&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/africarenewal\/magazine\/may-2021\/first-its-kind-malaria-vaccine-offers-hope-fight-against-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cause of mortality<\/a>&nbsp;on our continent than any other, Covid included)&nbsp;is now available.&nbsp;By&nbsp;mid-century&nbsp;we must&nbsp;expect&nbsp;a world with at least&nbsp;five times the&nbsp;number of Africans as&nbsp;Europeans \u2013 and to have surpassed them&nbsp;in&nbsp;electricity&nbsp;consumption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This demographic and development shift&nbsp;has&nbsp;profound implications for&nbsp;both&nbsp;energy&nbsp;production&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;control of resources.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;future&nbsp;citizens have the right to demand more electricity and at lower prices than is&nbsp;presently&nbsp;available&nbsp;to their forebears.&nbsp;Should they not receive&nbsp;it&nbsp;there&nbsp;can be no&nbsp;continental&nbsp;progress \u2013 leading inevitably to&nbsp;instability and further mass economic migrations of&nbsp;the&nbsp;kind we already see between Africa and Europe today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can, of course,&nbsp;can&nbsp;be avoided&nbsp;if jobs are created and prosperity increased.&nbsp;Yet to do that requires&nbsp;hard choices over the future of electricity generation&nbsp;for Africa \u2013 and the world &#8211;&nbsp;that are repeatedly ducked and neglected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easy decisions are,&nbsp;of course, made. Driven for the large part by what must be described as a western aid-industrial complex of NGOs and state development agencies, money pours into wind and solar projects&nbsp;on&nbsp;both small and grand scales. This satisfies their funders and burnishes green credentials.&nbsp;Too often&nbsp;it leaves Africans with&nbsp;less&nbsp;reliable and&nbsp;more&nbsp;expensive electricity,&nbsp;dependent&nbsp;when the wind&nbsp;does not blow, and&nbsp;the sun&nbsp;does not&nbsp;shine&nbsp;on&nbsp;back-up diesel generators&nbsp;or batteries to discharge power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While those generators are highly polluting, so too is the lithium for&nbsp;batteries&nbsp;and even more, allowing Africans \u2013 on account of lack of electricity, to cut downs trees and farm in swamps that severely downgrades river streams and restricts rainfall.&nbsp;Needed to power the&nbsp;technology of the future,&nbsp;the highly sought metal is&nbsp;energy intensive&nbsp;and ecologically damaging to mine. It seems forgotten&nbsp;amongst ardent environmentalists that for each reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction: that in their sprint for electric cars and clean energy they risk replacing the last century\u2019s hunt for fossil fuels&nbsp;in a new&nbsp;global race for lithium. Where&nbsp;significant deposits are to be found, such as in Africa, this could endanger&nbsp;geopolitical&nbsp;stability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inconvenient truth is that there is&nbsp;no single green bullet that can be deployed either&nbsp;in&nbsp;Africa or the world that solves concerns of environmentalists whilst&nbsp;simultaneously offering the power to fuel&nbsp;hope of greater wealth and progress for the extra&nbsp;one&nbsp;billon citizens of&nbsp;our African&nbsp;future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;there are&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;to be found in multiplicity and equilibrium. There are&nbsp;currently neglected&nbsp;yet&nbsp;green and cheap and possible&nbsp;methods of generation that should be included in Africa\u2019s future energy mix.&nbsp;There are recently developed mini-hydro technologies. They&nbsp;allow for 24 hours-a-day energy production&nbsp;which&nbsp;can be installed along minor rivers without the need for battery back-up:&nbsp;with turbines through which fish can swim&nbsp;without being harmed,&nbsp;they stand to allay many prior environmental concerns about traditional hydropower damage to waterways and aquatic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also&nbsp;the conversion of&nbsp;current,&nbsp;coal-fired power stations to biomass&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;and even a potential future that includes carbon capture.&nbsp;Given&nbsp;most of the arable land lies uncultivated in Africa, the potential&nbsp;of energy from crops&nbsp;could be transformative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is&nbsp;even nuclear. Today only South Africa operates an atomic&nbsp;power station, but Algeria, Ghana, and Nigeria operate research reactors with the intent of building full-scale nuclear facilities in the years ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a way, perhaps the solution has always been obvious: An \u201cAll of the Above Strategy\u201d is what Africa needs to supply the right energy mix that is both green and reliable and plentiful \u2013 and geopolitically stable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet this is not what is currently offered to Africa. Instead, we are told we must jump from low energy consumption to only certain forms of new energy production, while&nbsp;others remain off limits.&nbsp;Solar and wind, with their&nbsp;corollary&nbsp;drawbacks,&nbsp;are favored. Transitioning through&nbsp;cleaner&nbsp;carbon&nbsp;energy&nbsp;is&nbsp;censured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Western nations have&nbsp;put a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/africa\/2021-08-31\/divestment-delusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blanket ban on fossil fuel projects abroad<\/a>. Whilst this may seem logical in the case of coal,&nbsp;it also precludes the production of natural gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;access to reliable&nbsp;electricity&nbsp;offers one of the best&nbsp;anecdotes to poverty.&nbsp;Manufacturing&nbsp;on the continent&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;where significant&nbsp;future&nbsp;growth lies&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;will&nbsp;struggle to attract investment, and therefore create employment,&nbsp;without consistent energy&nbsp;inputs.&nbsp;Agriculture and food production will suffer if the&nbsp;continent&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;exploit&nbsp;natural gas\u2019&nbsp;potential for synthetic fertilizer, nor its&nbsp;ability to power efficient freight&nbsp;and transport networks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given Africa produces so little of the world\u2019s&nbsp;carbon&nbsp;emissions,&nbsp;barring&nbsp;funding for all but the greenest is a mistake.&nbsp;Given&nbsp;natural gas is a vital part of&nbsp;many Western&nbsp;nation\u2019s&nbsp;transitions, it is also hypocritical. Moreover,&nbsp;were&nbsp;sub-Saharan&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;(minus South Africa)&nbsp;to triple its electricity&nbsp;consumption overnight on gas, it would add just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energyforgrowth.org\/blog\/what-happens-to-global-emissions-if-africa-triples-down-on-natural-gas-for-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">0.6 percent to global emissions<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa needs reliable energy.&nbsp;Keeping a range of options available does not prevent&nbsp;the development of its renewables. But forcing Africa down one route&nbsp;will hinder its fight against poverty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa needs balance in its energy mix, rather than simply a rush for renewables favored by western aid bodies and development NGOs, says the President of Uganda&nbsp;Yoweri K. Museveni.&nbsp; This&nbsp;November there is a deal to be done for the world and the future at COP26. 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