'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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The United Kingdom has a similar program

[Anonymous Coward]

They are generating electricity from the exploding penguin on top of your television.

Re:This is the stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but will building a power plant stop the locals hacking each other to death? There's a reason these places are poor: the people are too violent and ignorant. If you give them electricity, they'll just come up with even more effective means of commiting genocide.

These places should be left for nature (human nature) to take its course. When the evil people have killed each other, human beings can move in.