why is no1 discussing Climate change ??

[snoop12]

dawwa

somalis need to get familar with seawater desalination plants, the technology needed for such a facility and its maintenance, we have the second largest coast in Africa !!! being almost a peninsula, every Somali is near to the sea and its abundance of desalinated water.

[MrPrestige]

^^Nice but too bad it's only on such a small scale.

bigger ones will be bought to all the regions of sland mardow.

[suga_delic]

da very ppl dats telling us about climate change r also driving 4X4s, flying private jets n have 55,000 volts electricity running thru their houses. wot does dat tell u da legitimacy of their claim?

[dawwa9]

dawwa

somalis need to get familar with seawater desalination plants, the technology needed for such a facility and its maintenance, we have the second largest coast in Africa !!! being almost a peninsula, every Somali is near to the sea and its abundance of desalinated water.

^It costs millions to set up such plants and they require a lot of educated staff.

Two things Somalia barely has: money and educated people.

Sad..

[Lord Diplock]

It is staggering for a very, poor woman to have 7 kids, mindless stuff.

Maldives is a small beer compare to the situation in Bangladesh, there millions are in danger of drowning, WTF will the end up?

[dawwa9]

It is staggering for a very, poor woman to have 7 kids, mindless stuff.

They do, I don't know what they feed them on, perhaps on air? But the fertility rate of Somalia is somewhere between 6 and 7.

4-5 kids too many.

[Babygirl-]

Somalis have more kids because most of the kids don't survive and they have more so that when they grow they will take care of them.

If the children can survive and more women are educated and have jobs they will have less children.

[Lord Diplock]

I dont think they believe in family planning

[MrPrestige]

Somaliland: Harnessing Solar Power



Somaliland | Economic Growth | 2005
USAID Somaliland
Success Stories
Shariif Butaan is an enterprising man. As a diesel mechanic, rebuilt engines were his stock in trade. He patched together Russian truck engines with mismatched generators and German leftovers with old British parts. He began supplying electricity to his own house and neighbors from a reconditioned generator in Berbera. After a time, he began to charge a reasonable fee to his neighbors for their power-he charged by the bulb.

Now he is the managing director of the Berbera Electrical Enterprise (BEE) in Somaliland, which supplies almost all the electricity in this port city. He also heads the Berbera Fishing Cooperative, a group of 75 fishermen based along the Gulf of Aden coast. He has a commercial carpentry shop and a mechanical workshop. Outside Berbera, he owns a 30 percent interest in the power system of Burao, Somaliland, and he now controls the private power distribution for about 2,500 premises in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He is the chairman of the umbrella group of all the private electricity companies in Hargeisa. But he has not always been so affluent nor so influential.

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A master mechanic, Shariif Butaan (far left) teaches the mechanics of solar-powered engines. Photo Credit: Jim Shanor/ADRA
Butaan comes from a humble background. Growing up in war-torn Somalia, he has little formal education and his command of English is limited. His career in commercial power generation began in 1991 after the civil war against the former dictator, Siad Barre. Butaan's interest in renewable energy was more than philosophical. Frustration with limited sources of power generation in Somaliland has always inspired him to think "outside the box."

One of the overarching goals of the USAID Somalia's Powering Economic Diversification Project, implemented by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), is to promote peace and stability by stimulating the development of an enabling environment for economic diversification in Puntland and Somaliland in northern Somalia. This is accomplished through promoting and facilitating access to conventional and alternative energy or renewable energy technologies. The conversion of Butaan from conventional energy magnate to a proponent of renewable energy is one of the project's successes.

When Butaan got involved with the program he began to engage other energy providers in Burao and Hargeisa to form a cooperative electricity system and to invest together in wind generators needed to supplement the patchwork electrical system that now serves a large portion of Hargeisa's needs. He is now spearheading a solar cooker training program through ADRA in Hargeisa and Berbera. After he became an ADRA partner in solar power, he became interested in the portable solar cookers introduced at the Hargeisa Fair. He found improvements to the standard solar cookers built by Solar Cookers, International from Kenya the first day he took one home to experiment. He asked for and contributed to an Outreach program for solar cookers in Berbera, a process that saves substantial amounts of charcoal and therefore scarce trees. Butaan is also working to raise the standards for safety and efficiency in electric wiring across Somaliland.

While Somalis have adapted to state collapse in creative ways, devising informal and formal systems that allow basic economic activity, the country remains extremely poor and underdeveloped. Civil society continues to take on an increasingly active role in shaping the rehabilitation and development. Butaan is the type of Somali entrepreneur that has emerged from the ashes of his war-torn country to become a civic leader. His intelligence and high standing in the community have helped the project to expand to new areas of Somaliland, laying a foundation for future projects. His efforts to raise interest and investment backing in the renewable energy sector have had immediate impact. His hands-on character makes him a valuable convert from conventional energy magnate to renewable energy proponent.

[Babygirl-]

Breaking News!! A Somalilander Landed on the MOON.

[snoop12]

Lord Diplock

we have the most strategic locations on earth! do you know how much money regions like the US and Europe spend on transportation of resources?

we are right in between Africa and middle east there is no need to cut down trees, its just ignorance encouraged by an unsympathetic hand that drives the insufficient charcoal industries in Somalia

[dawwa9]

Somalis have more kids because most of the kids don't survive and they have more so that when they grow they will take care of them.

If the children can survive and more women are educated and have jobs they will have less children.

Besides that, it is also some kind of 'pride game' the more kids you have the more the man you are in Qabiil terms. Ridiculous way of thinking but sadly true.

Nowadays most stay alive and causing Somalia to have one of the fastest population growth rates (+3% per year)

2050 = more than 25 million people in Somalia

[snoop12]

Somalis have more kids because most of the kids don't survive and they have more so that when they grow they will take care of them.

If the children can survive and more women are educated and have jobs they will have less children.

true indeed. we are suffering from poverty.

prematur death, lack of facilities, malnutrition, disease, political unrest etc etc, these are just a few amongst many problems in the poverty package.

dawwa, what are you talking about, the somali population may implode if we continue this way.

[Lord Diplock]

Somalis have more kids because most of the kids don't survive and they have more so that when they grow they will take care of them.

If the children can survive and more women are educated and have jobs they will have less children.

Besides that, it is also some kind of 'pride game' the more kids you have the more the man you are in Qabiil terms. Ridiculous way of thinking but sadly true.

Nowadays most stay alive and causing Somalia to have one of the fastest population growth rates (+3% per year)

2050 = more than 25 million people in Somalia

That is scary figure for a very poor country with zero infrastructure to speak off.

the one about Qabil name is the big one, we are all obsessed with 'Laandheer' thing.

I hope educated Somali women have 1 or 2 children atmost.

[suga_delic]

Breaking News!! A Somalilander Landed on the MOON.