The Race To Replace Africa’s Forest-Killing Fuel
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2022
- Charcoal production is the leading cause of deforestation in Africa. A Nairobi startup says replacing it with bioethanol could save forests as well as lives.
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Bamboo could be used in place of normal woodland. The existing woodland could then be preserved in it's natural state. Bamboo is fast growing charcoal fuel source as well as a building material for all kinds of products,crafts,and housing.
yeahhbamboo & cerry tree in indonesia too... most fast growing.. how can they hear this
It saves 5 tons per household per year, but Kenya's CO2 emissions is 0.4 per capita.
I didn't get this part I think.
There must be upwards of 13 people per household
I use KOKO FUEL too, but I alternate with normal gas.
Koko fuel is really awesome, I wish they would spread to MACHAKOS COUNTY
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Hmm for now they depend on sugar refineries so country with massive sugar production, yeah.
is there a reason for the alternate? I haven't used it and I guess am looking at all the angles b4 I convert.
I find it questionable the way Bloomberg interviews their own reporters as if they're subject-matter experts
After years writing on subjects they can be.
India should also adopt this it looks promising
Nice reporting!
The fuel canister is right beside the burner cooking oil. Very unsafe.
Great work Thank you
Kenya has an abundance of sunshine. It can be used for solar cooking, heating water, and for electrical energy. Kenyans should utilize it.
Funding and corruption are the biggest issue. Carbon credit could help especially in case of poor nations. But Carbon credit market is hijacked by rich nations. Most of the money stay in first world and practically no one questions whether carbon credits sold have any worth or not (higher chances of fraud). In contrast, this money if invested in poor nations can have much better outcome.
and wind too.
@@The_Phoenix_61 Are you an Indian?;
This in DRC will be a game changer....Nice invention
in love with the koko
🌈 thank you for sharing!
Great business. best wishes .
Charcoal from real wood is hella expensive everywhere.
if we reduce dietary sugar consumption, will that have a meaningful effect on the price and available quantity of this kind of bioethanol fuel?
In this particular instance, if they were to strictly use waste by product to avoid the incentive of creating more crop land, reducing sugar consumption would not help. It could make it worse as the sugarcane farmer would sell to another factory/buyer who may not be in a position to sell the waste product to koko. If koko did have to resort to using non waste product it would probably affect the price of the ethanol as I don't think anyone would sell raw sugarcane for the same price per kg as the waste pulp. Producing biofuels should be kept to methods that use waste products without creating a new demand of raw materials. I think the use of algae could be seen as an exception but the biomass of the algae IS technically a waste product of a water/air treatment process, but I am not claiming that it is a perfect solution as I have not researched it enough. Going back to your thought, if it works out that fresh raw materials could produce ethanol for cheaper then it would be beneficial to also reducing meat consumption and reduce the use of corn based fillers and sweeteners as the raw materials for those are also very frequently used for ethanol production.
@@jimysk8er thanks for the reply. if lots of small-vehicle transport gets electrified, will that significantly reduce demand for corn-based ethanol fuels, or will they simply be diverted to jet fuel, shipping fuel, diesel supplements etc?
@@bbqnice1 that's not something I could answer with certainty. But I do know for a fact that planes are looking at biofuels and hydrogen. Large ships can also be powered by nuclear. Small recreational water craft can be electrified too.
@@jimysk8er i expect short-range flights with few passengers to be electrified fairly soon, too. i think freight customers would jump on that
In Denmark we also burn wood just directly rather than turning it into charcoal. Under the label of "biomass" its considered green and is not counted in the co2 accounting.
Except it is terrible and is affecting the amount of carbon sinks and of carbon sequestration in the nordics.
Yep, if it's not counted in CO2 accounting it's probably wood sourced from sustainable forestry, thus carbon neutral. That's fantastic 👍🏽
@@poweredman i agree it's just a form of greenwashing.
@@bolzdk9032 precisely.
Wood captures CO2 when it grows and releases it when it burns.
Fossil fuels are the problem, not wood.
Pollarding and coppicing could also be a solution for easing the pressure on forests
Yeah, but charcoal grilled food is DELICIOUS. 😆
I agree tastes 1000000000x better
4:50 miaka tano?
We neeed it here in Uganda
Best solution.
Afrika has a lot of sun if you would really care about environment or the people there,
you would build hundred million solar cookers in Afrika.
An 1800W solar cooker costs around 117 usd in India (Let's say you can feed 10 people with it.)
Currently there are 1.4 billion people in Arika.
1.4b * 117 / 10 = 16,38 billion US Dollar to give everyone the oportunity to cook with the sun.
But let's be honest this "I care about humans in Afrika, or I care about the environment ethiks" is just a tool to get money for western companies. I know there are a lot of people much more intelligent than me, and it should be easy for them to solve those problem's, but you have to want to solve them. In the end China and India etc. will have to solve their problems, because we western countries simply don't want to. Let's be honest.
Am now enlightened and will consider KOKO since it is bioethane
6:00 There is more than enough land to feed the billions of people around the world.
He said there is not enough land to be able to feed all the billions of people around the world.
this is done in India also
Our caveman ancestors knew how to work with nature, not against it..
Not really. There were just less of them. Cave men probably wiped put the Woolly Mammoth
Tell that to the Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhino, the Giant Sloth, the Moa, the Cave bear, the Irish Elk, the Dire Wolf, etc
all for carbon credit, so big company just spit more emissions
Anyone here because they misread the thumbnail text wrong? I mean Kanye been doing some crazy things lately right?
They are taking their business to a big and massive disaster. They are running by subsidies and prioritising expansion when they have not tackled the competitiveness of their products once those subsidies die out. They want to be a start-up taking gov'ts hostage with massive userbase so they will continue giving subsidies and incentives. This is significant as long as climate change remains an issue I hope they can innovate till DD.
You weren't paying attention
I think Koko is vastly superior to Kerosene but charcoal is still superior when cooking hardy foods like githeri
Koko itapika githeri?
Do sushi fresh flesh fish meat is the best solution to reducing our over using of energy just to cooking???
Eating flesh meat.. like japan n korea...
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By the data, still not killing enough to stop the overpopulation.
Bio fuels. Cut down forests to grow feedstocks for bio fuels instead of food.
Protect the forest...use Russian gas..
@@saltapozo🤣
Biofuels will never be a viable options since we need that land for other uses.
The best source of bio-degradable renewable energies are human feces and inhumane ones as well..
@@saltapozo russian gas kills more people than it feeds
Filthy muggles using non magic power
While in the human realm, train your heart to be compassionate so that you can return to heaven. If you still harbour greed, hatred and delusion, you will not achieve any level of spirituality in this life.
Wealthy countries should donate solar panel manufacturing plants to poorer nations so everyone could cook, etc with solar power from their own rooftops.