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>effectively free electricity will make it dirt cheap Effectively free? For a first world country, maybe. But the countries where water shortages are an actual
by ohgodplsno 6y ago
>effectively free electricity will make it dirt cheap
Effectively free? For a first world country, maybe. But the countries where water shortages are an actual life or death situation already have trouble getting a good enough power grid. Noone is going to show up to a village in the middle of Ghana and install solar panels for free so they can have water. This is a horribly first-world centric point of view.
- perched_robin 6y agoAren't there charities doing literally that?
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoYes, the website hasn't been updated but these guys are constructing a well in Kenya this year. https://www.globeleadership.com https://www.globeleadership.com
- christophilus 6y ago> Noone is going to show up to a village in the middle of Ghana and install solar panels for free so they can have water. There are plenty of organizations who will do exactly that. But I think I agree with the general slant of your comment, which is that much of the world will have to rely on the charity of the developed world to solve this problem for them. That charity is not guaranteed to be timely, effective, or predictable.
- wurstfinger 6y agoFunny you should choose Ghana as an example. They have actually overbuilt their power generating capacity in recent years and are looking for ways to fruitfully soak up the excess electricity (e.g. electric vehicles https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/20/ghana-pushes-for-adoption-of-evs-to-soak-up-excess-electricity-generation-capacity/ https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/20/ghana-pushes-for-adopti...)