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Volcanoes: The Key to Powering Kenya

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. STEM minority education
  2. education
  3. Earth models
  4. earthquakes
  5. geophysics
  6. seismology
  7. Energy & Environment
  8. Education for the 21st Century Demographic
  9. Cross-cutting: Cyberinfrastructure and Collaborative Environments

Featured Researcher(s):

Velasco, Aaron
College: Science
Department: Geological Sciences

UTEP Strategic Areas

  1. Energy and Environment
Volcanoes: The Key to Powering Kenya
Date: 13 December 2012 22:00



With few natural resources to help generate electricity, Kenya is turning toward a unique form of energy, and something it has in abundance: volcanoes.

For the past several decades, the country has relied heavily on hydropower, a source that has proved undependable due to frequent droughts causing power shortages, brownouts and blackouts.


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