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Port Sudan, Red Sea and Diving

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Port Sudan and the Red Sea

Sudanese Red Sea

I love scuba diving, it is an amazing feeling to glide along underwater - whith just the sound of your breathing observing all the aquatic life going about its daily business.  Just off the coast in Port Sudan is a real part of dive history - Jacques-Yves Cousteau underwater experiment -the Conshelf 2 -  I just had to go! We all love the sea so convincing the others wasn't hard.  It was also Amal's and Remo's first trip to the sea (salty water?!) After meeting some more friends we heading for the beach to camp.

Last Updated on Monday, 01 February 2010 15:02 Read more...
 

Solar installations on the Trip

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One of the aims of the trip is to prove how well Solar PV technology works, there are still many misplaced misconceptions that it doesn't work.  Here are some installations so far.  All of these are working and it shows how flexible the technology is and what a wide range of uses there are for it.  It is also interesting to see the number of different companies who have invested in it.

Hopefully this will help you to understand how good this technology is and donate to SolarAid @ www.justgiving.com/overlandinthesun

Sudan
Sudan has some of the best conditions in the world for Solar, its proximity to the equator means that it receives amazing sunlight and it also less effected by the cloud and rain that you often find right on the equator.  Our Solar system has been amazing here!

Most of the Sudanese electricity is from dams on the Nile - while low carbon this is problematic in many ways.  Internationally, the more dams Sudan builds on the Nile this can effect the dams in Egypt.  Upstream, Ethiopia is starting to build dams on the Blue Nile - which will impact the Sudanese dams.  Nationally; as Sudan is such a vast country, areas away from the Nile do not have electricity due to transmission costs - these areas are also often the poorer areas (Darfur and the South) and in need of cheaper electricity to prosper.  Locally, dams cause problems for farmers, in the North farms complained of ever changing river heights making it  almost impossible to farm land long term with better techniques.

Damm at Ed Damazin

Last Updated on Monday, 01 February 2010 14:33 Read more...
 
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