Could Africa become a leader in supplying green fuel to the world? | DW News
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- Could Africa become a leader in supplying green fuel to the world? That question has become even more relevant as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine - creating disruption in Europe's energy supplies.
Germany is one of the countries scrambling for alternatives - including from the African continent. This week the country's minister of Economy and Climate, Robert Habeck, visited two nations in Southern Africa,
Namibia and South Africa - both of which are looking toward 'green hydrogen' fuel production. In Namibia Habeck supported a 10 Billion Dollar hydrogen project from a German firm. There are however concerns that Africa will not fully benefit, or be in control of its own green energy resources.
#southafrica #greenenergy #namibia
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The African countries will have to meet the green energy investors halfway. They will need to supply an educated workforce and a business environment where the rules are clear.
The investors are in on a scam They should not be surprised if they get scammed.
They'll all starve to death before that. Cold truth for the major importers of the world.
There are lots of educated people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Well you can't export the Sun so they'll need money to develop the industry and avoid contracts like that of China's Belt and Rip Off the are designed to seed ownership and control to China.
@MSD Group No, somehow the 2 invasions of Ukraine by Russia are hitting different, with basic energy needs used as blackmail...
This is exciting for Africa and the world economy...
Ya, Africa?! No, it will remain a poor $hit house.
@@floridaray3380 Take your racism elsewhere
Nope. Only the defunct Europeans are having orgasms. Africa will trade with Asia directly. No need for a European middlemen.
@@ramdev9578 I'm happy for Africa if they can build their green market and find their own trade partners. With technological progress the benefits are not a zero sum game. And more countries taking green energy production seriously the better. So fingers crossed they succeed.
@@ramdev9578 Yep, I don't see that happening.
Gosh finally africa is developing faster into the modern future. This is great news.
Using renewable energy to manufacture pretty much any energy-intensive products would be good for the whole planet, not just making green tech with it.
There is no renewable energy solution that will be able to meet the needs of Afrika for powering its industriaies, enterprises and societies.
Green hydrogen is a scam.
Will be like that, as the EU27 will replace all fossil fuels (oil, coal, nat gas) with green hydrogen.
The goal is focused on 2030-2045.
Hydrogen can be used as storage battery for the overloads from the offshore windmills and others.
Green hydrogen can also be used as raw material for proceeding things like steel, glass, paper etc.
Hopefully Africa becomes more peaceful in the future
Last I read NATO was at war through its proxy Ukraine. By the way 2 world wars were fought in Europe
Is that you, Europe?
We hope someday and in possible future, we can harvest minerals in moon or beyond
Lot of solutions. Problem is we kept putting them off for the easy ones and the best ones, that won't harm the world's lungs, and the real long term solutions that are literally pure profit take advanced infrastructure and long term planning to secure resources necessary
Waste methane from the beef industry was one huge solution on its own since the 90s.
Resreading some throughout rural Alaska, while training us up to capture the wastes and plan the budget necessary for reliably refining and incinerating it, would have saved rural billions annually allowing us to cut shipping demands for refined gas we have to ship to the lower 48 then back to use. It also would have helped lower the cost of essential demand every decade gets harder to fill as our dumps/sewers destroy what we used to take from nature. And it also would have allowed to to easier moniter the area for what we know are Russian and Chinese trespassers, and if we plan enough to export we can lower costs in population dense southern Alaska alongside a bit of Northern Canada
We kept putting it off, because Russia and Saudi Arabia kept telling the world no, you can't have green energy, and alas USA and EU listened.
This is interesting (for me) in two ways; first of all it would be ironic but show a perfect example of humanity if one of the areas in the world suffering the most from climate change deliver the biggest share of the solution. Secondly, I am looking for a job in the renewable energy industry and this is just interesting and helpful to know.
Long term the African Continent will do better in everything because the world needs Africa.
It was no wonder Egyptians etc worshiped the Sun! Thank the heavens for all its help to mother Nature! Good for African progression & prosperity etc. Hopefully prices not extortionate.
Namibia genocide at the hands of Germans will not be forgotten
Yep Yep Yep
Two questions. Where will they get the water? What happens to the oxygen?
Probably desalination plants powered by the same green energy. The oxygen either goes into the athmosphere, where it belongs, or it could also be used - e.g. medical equipment or chemical industries.
Oxygen can be used in hospitals
No more trade until Africa's treasures are returned.
Sure, why not!
basically its a big kettle
The chemistry of hydrogen is very sexy as green energy. The engineering for hydrogen makes it useless.
It is possible!
South Africa can't even keep their lights on! Don't expect energy exports from them anytime soon.
So sell energy that we need to buy things build with that same energy?
It is unbelievable that S. Africa has had "load shedding" for the past 15 years! First, fix the old political vested interest structure to make way for renewable energy and get going to supply power to all SA citizens, just not the wealthy!
Itm power plc. Sheffield U.K. has the answer
Russia has fallen
OpEC will fall
Other nations will grow...
Congratulations 🎊 👏
Ask the large farms owners how stable doing business in South Africa is.
What is Germany's thing with dealing with unstable governments?
Make a deal with Canada for energy.
You're talking as if these European countries are not already doing all sorts of business in Africa...
Doing business in South Africa is very safe. SA is a very developed country, better than many EU countries
Possible but UNLIKELY FOR Africa will become a leader in supplying green fuel.
Here's why:
(1) There's the whole of Australia - a stable, liberal democracy, with very low levels of corruption which can take on that role. Australia has plenty of sunshine, plenty of wind, plenty of land.
(2) too much corruption in African countries. The cost of doing business there is very high. Sure labour is cheap. But the production of green fuel will NOT require much labour as a component of production. So having to pay off folks to get permissions, ensure that the green fuel is loaded etc. is just going to add to the cost of doing business. Believe it or not, governments and corporations would much rather work in countries with low levels of corruption. See for eg. Singapore. Clean, efficient, easy to do business so that even if the costs seem high at first, it's actually much lower.
(3) If you include the nations like Saudi Arabia into this definition of Africa, then even MORE reasons to say NO. I think the world has had enough of having to work with corrupt dictators of their energy needs.
Africa has a long way to go to being relevant. First it must deal with the tribalism, corruption, mysogyny and extreme inequity.
Good luck.
Almost only North African countries and South Africa provide access to electricity to 100% of their population, so sorry but Sub-Saharan African countries must prioritize their citizens first and then maybe export energy to Europe.
Exactly
Hi. Future algae harvester alcohol tanker. Future fuel. My very best regards.
I have zero problems with Africa being integrated into world economy, but they need transparent non-corrupt government to assume this role.
Yea we're not that better in the West
Africa is not a country, there are many countries in Africa that are less corrupt and far better than the US, Israel and others, countries like Rwanda and Botswana. South Africa is also another country that does not tolerate corruption. Lastly, every country has corruption, for example, Former Israel Ehud Olmert was sentence to jail for corruption, also Benjamin Netanyahu is also charged for corruption.
@@gedenironald8635 er duh, I was referring to all of the countries in Africa. And prove the governments of Africa not corrupt sir.
@@gedenironald8635 In these countries they fight corruption. That's why he sits in jail in the first place.
The only problem with Africa is...Africans.
Somalia will be hydrogen superpower.
They will skrew africa
No it couldn't
Hydrogen might make more sense for Africa's infrastructure, but it will never be as good as pure electric green solutions because hydrogen requires special storage and shipping. It makes sense until you realize that hydrogen uses electricity in it's creation and so is about 1/3rd as efficient a fuel as pure electric.
Inb4 random racist comments because this video is on Africa.
lol yeah
Yup
Only problem is, absolutely nothing anywhere uses Hydrogen as a Fuel.
This equates to claiming that you're producing Unicorn dust, as a new miracle fuel.🙄
That's not true, rockets use hydrogen and a lot of it.
You can use hydrogen to generate other forms of energy eg electrical and have stations for that.
As the guy said Hydrogen is produced to make ammonia for fertilizer. It happens on an absolutely colossal scale.
Really there are hydrogen cars in the USA as we speak and planes and trains kindly educate yourself
Africa needs to solve the problem of skills gap in order to be actively involved in green hydrogen production.
There's no skill gap in Africa there's only investment deficit. You should getvyour facts right
Would be safer to make green methane rather than green hydrogen, it's much easier to store and we already have a distribution network since it's near enough natural gas. Burning methane may release CO2 but only the CO2 that it took to make it so net zero carbon.
Iv been thinking about that forever. Rural zones already eat massive amounts of welfare and they want less and rural Alaska particularly needs more local rev and we'd stand to benefit a ton getting advanced training for raising up spacious farms that can easily ethically raise cattle, and with a good plan the waste can also likely free up a few billion per region letting us make local fuel instead of shipping it
I'd love if we can divert more of our fuel from the state and start feeding Europe good oil at the side without having to worry about harming American NATO surplus.
We burn oil to ship refined oil/gas to areas not far from where the original was yanked. We also burn gas for our essential meat, and there's so many prime devopement spots being ruined by decreased infrastructure standards were allowed due to the exorbant costs caused by shipping paired with out lack of local rev
Methane has 80x the greenhouse effect of CO2 (the greenhouse gas which would be used as the carbon source for green methane). Hydrogen storage is difficult, but if not used for passenger vehicles it should be manageable.
@@davidc2072 It doesn't have that effect if you burn it rather than release it into the atmosphere as a gas, we already ship the stuff all over the world in LNG tankers which have recondensers to deal with boil off gas.
Methane is an option, yes. Also ammonia is intersting, as well as nitrogen fertilizer, which is made from hydrogen. A number of very energy intense materials would better be produced close to rich and cheap energy ressources in future instead of transporting the energy thousands of km.
And Africa has almost unlimited rich, cheap energy ressources (solar, wind, hydropower) 99.99% of which is just not used today.
Germany has killed many Namibians but now they remember Africa
Hope it become a successful project. 🙏
It would Gods willing
The best joke of the entire century "the last thing we should accept is some sort if green energy imperialism" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 hear me africa? Some sort i said! But an explicit one is fine 🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️
Build a solar farm to make electricity to power hydrogen production and sell hydrogen then transport hydrogen to make electricity. Anyone see any problems with this green energy?
What's the problem? Hydrogen is storage mechanism.
@@timetraveler_0 like a battery that can be used only once.
@@bruce5285 There are some issues related to battery powered planes: specifically the batteries may be heavier then the plane for long distances.
Green Hydrogen may still have a sensible use case in aviation and may be also in long haul trucks, trains and ships.
European Union must invest in Dr. Chidziva‘s project and green hydrogen infrastructure. But Africans should make sure they use purified sea water instead of freshwater for hydrogen production. That’s very important! We don’t want to dry out Africa even more.
Sounds great but so have other plans.
Look how the Saudis acquired full control.
Germany is looking for new kind of dependence again.
exploitation again on Africa? a big no.
I'm really looking forward to a strong Africa.
The continent has so much potential & we in Europe should invest more into reliable(!) partnerships there.
Democratization is very good in some places, but unfortunately rly bad in others..
Ya, Africa?! No, it will remain a poor $hit house.
@@floridaray3380 You're all over the comments section. You must be the most desperate racist out there. There are many Africans way richer than you.
@@vervetech9395 Yep, Elon Musk 🤣
As Hydrogen is extremely flammable gas, it would need more care in handling especially when storing. in making Hydrogen. it's necessary to have energy first to energize electrolytes.
I would actually prefer a fokus on Chile and Bolivia for this and after that africa. Both have other ressouces like copper and lithium we already get or want to have. Both also have problems with environmentally friendly mining, especially chile + problems of getting water for it. They have some political trouble, mostly Bolivia but nothing too drastic like a threat of terrorists or warlords messing with things or wars closeby. Try to make a deal with both, the EU helps to finance some desalination plants, make their mining operations more environmentally friendly, therefore the EU can built huge solar parks for H² production. Those projects can be combined well, so what would speak against it?
Out of 55 countries, how many African countries have wars? And wars in Africa are very different because they don't engulf the whole country, for example the war in the Congo is only confined to one small area in the country. The rest of the country is very peaceful and tech companies are getting coltan there.
africa should worry about making their own countries energy independent before they try leading in a failed fuel choice.
if hydrogen was viable, we'd have it already.
it has it's place in industry.
it'll never be a large energy source.
still see practically no fuel cell vehicles, nor any big development until they get storage under control.
you can't have public filling stations blowing up like they have.
hydrogen is too dangerous.
Public stations blowing up like they have? You mean like petrol stations do?
Japan is already working on *red* hydrogen:)
No it's called pink HYDROGEN
a significant step forward, worrying about the aprihension i hope that home grown innovation takes the bull by the horns i can't wait to see what methods people think up with the core principles in mind.
No. It would require a massive shift in corruption...something that weighs down every reform effort attempted over the last 40 years. Massive swaths of land that is generally unusable seems perfect but but it is unusable for a reason. So, the second problem is the weather. Burning heat and sandstorms will shred solar collection surfaces and wind generators and the severity of rainy seasons would cause continuous damage to turbines. Third would be lack of overall governmental stability. Too many problems to make it worthwhile and sustainable. Sadly, this is irrefutable.
Yes. That's what I wrote too. Especially when you compare it to a place like Australia.
I hope it changes but I don't see the will to change in Africa, not yet anyway.
@@lamdao1242 Probably because you're really bad at looking.
Africa uses any kind of energy! Green energy is for the picky.
South Africa can ,, provided governmunt get it out the way with red tape BS
"Germany will be 100% dependent on Russian energy, if they not emiditly change curse" President Trump
If you cover every roof in the World, you will get 26k TWh, todays global electrical production is 27k TWh.
LNG as seen on the screenshot is not green...
"Green" fuel says the drunkard. Must be the green lenses he is using.
By the end of the Century, Africa could be where the action is. The reasons are simple: Demographics, and natural resources. As birth rates fall around the World, most other places are going to have aging populations, and shrinking in many places. Africa will have younger demographics, lots of relatively cheap labor but with increasing skill, and abundant natural resources, including a lot of solar energy and certain minerals, not fully exploited before for geographic reasons.
Yet here in SA we cant keep our electricity grid on
"H. is silly" Elon
LMBO!
Japan working on pink HYDROGEN which was
More cool ! I feel
Lots of sun and wild weather. If you need to build solar instillations super strong it will costs much more.
Africa was the birth place of man... and it has not improved since then... I don't have hope for it being an economic green energy powerhouse...
Is this Henny Lenry? The brother of Lenny Henry?
Africa has always been the leader in supplying its raw materials including energy to the rest of the world.
when i see solar panels as main source for production H2 i know it wont help
Lng on the boat is green? But atomkraft not. No logic at all.
yes that's why Africa is here to serve and obey
With this kind of thinking, you are a hungry zombie..
And if they don't behave and you send your children to handle them they may never come home.
Ever again.
👴
WTF is wrong with you 😒
@@bisobokaclaire825 man why is France who choose the ruler in my country? why can't we choose our rulers just the same as in the west? and why they have troops where the resources are...pretending fighting terrorism
No.
The energy might be green but what about the billions of dollars worth of materials used to manufacture it? IE the steel pipes the copper wires etc
No. They cant