Is quality of life some sort of contest?

Wind and hydro work very well together. When the wind is blowing hydro can be curtailed, saving water for when the wind alone is not enough.

With solar prices dropping so rapidly we should see a third clean energy source taking its place on Ethiopia’s grid.

Why would anyone want to spend Ethiopia’s money on coal plants which will only accelerate the country’s climatic problems?

When I try to find a photo to feature in an article, I try to find the most beautiful photo related to the location or project that I can. This one above is completely beautiful to me and I would have used it without a doubt if i ran across it. I don’t know where the people complaining about the photo live, but I think the large majority of people in the U.S. (where I’m from) and Europe (where I now live) would look at that and think, “Oh my gosh, what a beautiful place.”

Perhaps, as Bob says, people complaining about it are more into and proud of large, polluted, ‘modern’ cities, but that’s not generally what thrills people from the overdeveloped West.

I suspect, the regime is building the plant at such price in Tigre to keep its plan of creating an indepedent, east African economic tiger, Tigre at any cost. While the cost for the other is financed through loans, the one in Tigre is built by domestic tax funds.

I also suspect the wind power projects being done to enrich someone, not necessarily to benefit the people of Ethiopia. Something is awry in these schemes, I hope someone gets to the bottom of it.

The building the Tekeze hydroelectric plant, the new super wind plant in Tigre show that TPLF is not cost sensitive when it comes of building projects in Tigre, beause it is not their money and they don’t core robbing the rest of Ethiopia. The sad story is that such racist endeavors never succeed and only impverishes all Ethiopioans and plants the seeds of hate and hard feeling.

I might, and will, add that it would be very sorry days indeed if Ethiopia winds up like China — incredibly polluted rivers, lakes, ocean, air and land, millions upon millions piled on top of one another, living cheek by jowl in urban megacities…

And do you mean to tell us that Chinese journalists don’t use the Internet in the course of doing their jobs? Oh, that’s right, the Internet’s censored in China and they couldn’t publish anything critical of the government or the country in any case…

I had been posting some of my shots of India, people in traditional clothing, vegetable markets in small towns, that sort of stuff. I had someone make a similar complaint “Why are you showing all this old stuff and making India look bad? Show our progress.”

My reply was that modern buildings and young guys in jeans don’t interest me. I can stay home and take those sort of pictures. But I did get their point. They want the world to realize that they are modernizing.

What would you possibly know about what it’s like to be one?

It is something that many Americans still appreciate, however, as well as many people all around the world…

It’s a beautiful photo of Ethiopia, and it is Ethiopia, at least one part of it…and that’s nothing to be ashamed of…

These comments indicate an insecurity I’d say…

It’s a beautiful photo…

You wouldn’t be Chinese by any chance?

Kenya is pursuing geothermal because they are worried about future droughts cutting into their hydroelectric sources.

The highlights are blown.