The titan of the online world announced that it will be installing solar panels capable of generating 1.6 Megawatts of electricity for its Mountain view california googleplex. Click here for the conceptual mock up (Done using Sketchup which is a google product and posted using google video ofcourse) It appears that basically all the roofs will have solar panels on them, and since it will constitute 1/3 of their power needs, the system will be grid tied.
Image is from EI site.
The company doing it is EI Solutions, the same guys behind $450 solar concentrator or the Sunflower..
Good things. (more later…)
I came across this story on The East African, The title is - “Kenya gifts six key oil blocks to China”, with a barely legible graphic showing the blocks.
excerpt:
In an unprecedented act of generosity, the government in April gave the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd (CNOOC) exclusive rights over a total of six out of 11 available blocks, including the hotly contested Blocks 9 and 10A in the Mandera area.
So dominant has China become in the oil exploration scene in Kenya that CNOOC alone now controls 28 per cent of the total exploration acreage in Kenya.
What. The. Fuzz. Since when did we start ‘gifting’ natural resources to other countries, something’s off, either the article misrepresents the agreement and creates the impression that Kenya is just giving stuff away…what is in it for Kenya, is the National oil corporation of Kenya part of the deal or is this actually what happened? How much more beneficial to Kenya would the deal with the european countries be?
Further down in the article is this:
Apparently, CNOOC negotiated and signed only one complete production sharing agreement for Block L4 with the government. The rest of the contracts were one-year-study agreements granting them exclusive access to the five blocks – with the option to relinquish the blocks at the end of the one-year period.
If you have any more info or a more contextualized reading of the article…please feel free to comment. I was just left with more questions and feel like the article was not complete nor clearly written.
Ps. Sorry for the very light posting, my laptop is kaputt, i will replace it in due time…
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