'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda

reillymj writes "There are three known 'exploding lakes' in the world, where volcanic gases build up near the lake bottom until they suddenly fizz over, suffocating people with huge amounts of carbon dioxide. But the lakes also hold methane and one of them, Rwanda's Lake Kivu, is being actively tapped as a source of natural gas to fuel a power plant on the lake's shore. The government hopes that within two years, the plant will be covering a third of the country's needs. By siphoning off the gas, engineers simultaneously defuse a ticking time bomb in the lake and provide power to local communities."

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This is the stuff

[Some.Net(Guy)]

This is why we have science. Good stuff all around, assuming it doesn't get corrupted.

Re:From the second article:

[maxwells_deamon]

The problem here is that is will blow at some time in the future without help. It may be triggered by a volcano or some other random event. It will eventually go off all by itself.

If you ignore it the potential just gets larger.