Rwanda's Lake Kivu - One Of World's Three 'Exploding Lakes' Could Kill Millions... Or Power The Country For 100 Years
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Rwanda's
Lake Kivu - One Of World's Three 'Exploding
Lakes' Could Kill Millions... Or Power The
Country For 100 Years
Lake Kivu's lethal combination of methane and
carbon dioxide has residents fearing for their
lives, but it's also Rwanda's most vital and
promising energy source. The body of water is
one of the world's three "exploding
lakes" and is at serious risk of
"overturn" -when huge amounts of
carbon dioxide are released from under its
surface, suffocating everyone in the
surrounding areas. According to the
Great Britain's Guardian, Rwandans
are now systematically removing the gases from
the lake in order to supply massive amounts of
electricity to the country for the next 100
years. "Some scientists say that the
ever-expanding volumes of carbon dioxide and
methane in Lake Kivu," reports the
Guardian, "coupled with the nearby
volcanic activity, make a limnic eruption
(also referred to as a lake overturn, in which
CO2 suddenly erupts from the lake) highly
likely at some stage in the future unless
degassing occurs. This has now begun with the
extraction of some of the 60bn cubic metres of
methane in the water."