liquefied petroleum gas - The African Mirror

Feb

2024

Kenya gas truck explosion torches Nairobi cylinder depot, kills 3

A gas truck exploded in Kenya's capital Nairobi, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and causing a blaze that killed at least three people and injured 300, authorities and first responders said. Residents in a nearby building screamed as a column of flame shot hundreds of feet into the air just before midnight, briefly forming a mushroom cloud, a video posted on social media and verified by Reuters showed. The government said three people had died in the explosion at a gas refilling plant and 280 more were being treated at hospitals around Nairobi. The Kenyan Red Cross…

Jun

2023

By The African Mirror

LPG is a fossil fuel. Experts explain why it’s still Africa’s best option for cleaner, greener cooking (for now)

ENVIRONMENT

AFRICA'S growing population desperately needs clean, modern energy in the home. Currently, more than 900 million people, 85% of the region’s population, still rely on solid biomass fuel (like wood and charcoal) and kerosene for cooking. These energy sources are highly polluting, inefficient and unsafe. Authors NIGEL BRUCE, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool DAN POPE, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Liverpool Many African countries are moving to develop scalable renewable energy resources to fill the gap. These include solar PV, wind, hydro, geothermal, ethanol and biogas resources. The International Energy Agency has identified liquefied petroleum…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

Use of dirty fuels is pervasive in Ghana. What can be done to transition to clean energy

ENVIRONMENT

MANY Ghanaian households are energy poor. Households that use biomass like wood, grass, animal dung and charcoal are considered energy poor while households that use clean energy like electricity and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are non-energy poor. ABDUL-WAKEEL KARAKARA ALHASSAN, PhD Candidate, School of Economics, University of Cape Coast In 2018 the International Energy Agency indicators showed that only 25% of Ghanaian households had access to clean energy for cooking. Lack of access to modern energy by households, to some extent, is both a cause and consequence of underdevelopment. In our study we set out to determine the factors that…