[Stoves] Food for Africa.

[Otto Formo]

Dear Daniel,
 
Iam happy to see, that Iam not the only one using the night to do something usefull and not only focusing on the nightmares of Africa..............
 
Statoil (Norway) is drilling offshore in TZ and have discovered a lot of oil and gas on the Continental shelf in the Indian Ocean.
They are planing a combined oil- and gas terminal south of DAR, not far from the border to Mosambique.
 
Pls pass the information you have to my e-mail: 
otto at miombo.no
I will inform NORAD and the people involved in DAR TZ.
 
I can allready "forsee" Africa as the "new" chamber of grains for the planet.
Just a pitty, that only the Chineese and the United Arab Emirates seems to have notice it.
 
Local production is likely the most sustainable one as well.
 
Thanks for the information.
 
Otto F.
 
From: Carefreeland at aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 06:42:32 -0500
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Stoves] Food for Africa.






Stovers. 
    I've been thinking a lot tonight about the food 
situation in Africa. The fact is that there is a lot of land, but poor soils in 
some places, and MIS management of large tracts based on ownership. It seems to 
me that intensive farming has to be the way to go. Small farmers would not be 
tied to large land payments. 
    Cheap row covers can help with a lot of the 
problems I see with conserving water and controlling pests of all sizes. Shade 
cloth is amazing, that, and water are all you need to grow in a tropical 
environment. 
    Then I think about the large Natural Gas field just 
discovered on the East Coast of Africa. 
Does anyone know if there are any ethane crackers, or polyethylene 
factories on the East Coast? If there are none, someone needs to pass a petition 
to get one. The big energy producers will do whatever is supported and make 
money. I forget which major oil companies are in that lease. We can look that 
up. They should be approached. 
    Also, An ammonia plant would produce a plentiful 
supply of cheap stable nitrogen. 
    Both fundamental chemicals would produce a host of 
other spin off industries.
    This exact chain of events is happening here in 
Ohio and Pennsylvania with the Marcellas/ Utica shale discovery. It is a repeat 
of the great industrial revolution that swept Ohio in mid 1900s fuels by cheap 
shallow gas. We still make a loofa of concrete, ceramics, glass, steel, rubber. 
and so on.
    This would spear head bringing the gas home. It 
would reduce carbon pollution by saving all the shipping of LNG. Even if they 
installed small ethylene separators in the well field, the ethylene could be 
shipped by barge to the shore right away, before the pipeline was even built. 

    To get the funding for a pipeline you need an 
immediate, captive, profitable market for the gas, waiting. The 
manufacturing of cheap UV resistant plastic sheeting and more importantly, shade 
cloth, would create a green revolution. People would be lining shelters with the 
old yellowed, disagreed plastic. 
    Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for renewable and 
such. The issue here is that the gas will get produced, and who is the best 
party to use that gas in the larger scheme of things. Why send the gas to China 
and then send products back?  It makes no sense.  Reducing poverty and 
hunger are never a bad thing. 
    The distribution of finished plastic goods, The 
distribution of fertilizer, then the produce it helps create, will spread over 
the continent. Then there will be resources to buy things from China anyway. 
It's a wining situation for everybody. But it all starts with controlling a 
share of the feedstock at home. Economics is all about value added, and then 
vertical integration.
    This revolution would enhance the production of 
renewable, not inhibit it. One had washes the other. 
    Just some thoughts. What do I know about Africa? 

    
    Dan Dimiduk
 
     
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