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    Cosmos: Rwanda Pins Hopes on Gas Gamble to Solve Energy Crisis

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The Rwandan government is taking a big gamble and seeking to extract 60 bn cubic metres of methane that it is dissolved in Lake Kivu to avoid and energy crisis

by: Erica Mills

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Press Notes, Africa

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Cosmos: Rwanda Pins Hopes on Gas Gamble to Solve Energy Crisis

Energy-starved Rwanda in central Africa is looking to put to use the 60 billion cubic meters of methane and 300 billion cubic meters of carbon dioxide dissolved in Lake Kivu, but the pioneering project is a big gamble.

The methane alone could be used to generate 960 megawatts of electricity for both Rwanda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

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