Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
VayuGrid, a biofuel supply chain company based in Bangalore, India has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create a biofuel cluster around its VayuSap, an elite, high-yield Pongamia (a leguminous, oilseed-bearing tree), in Ethiopia Africa. Ethiopia was chosen strategically based on the economics and agriculture.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
Water scarcity is a limitation to economic development, food production, and human health and well being.Water supply sources in the Arab world, two-thirds of which originate outside the region, are being stretched to their limits. This is below one-tenth of the world’s average, currently estimated at over 6,000 cubic meters.
Cars That Think
JULY 28, 2022
Of all the populous nations, only Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, and Nigeria continue to eat very little meat. In 2020, average supply rates in India and Bangladesh were still below 5 kg of carcass weight per year, per capita—a bit less than in Ethiopia.
Cars That Think
MARCH 9, 2022
When the dam is fully operational, its generating capacity will exceed 5,000 megawatts —at least in theory doubling Ethiopia’s electricity supply. Less than half of the country’s population has access to electricity; most of Ethiopia’s energy comes from biomass, in the form of traditional sources such as firewood and animal dung.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Similarly, having a distribution line (often illegally rigged) running to a dwelling tells us nothing about the usage of power or the reliability of its supply. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?
Cars That Think
JANUARY 8, 2024
When precancerous tissue forms, new blood vessels grow to supply it with blood. Today, 65 hospitals and clinics across Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania are using the tool kits, which will soon be supplied to hospitals in Ethiopia, officials say. The group has trained 10,000 medical professionals on how to use the kits.
Clean Fleet Report
JUNE 23, 2024
The supply chain for batteries starts in the mines, where raw materials containing the needed components are extracted. Ethiopia originally set a goal to have 150,000 electric cars on the roads by 2030. Compare that to China (about 63 percent) and Sweden (about 68 percent).
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