Review of Energy Status and Associated Conservational Issues in Botswana

Agarwal, Abhishek; Seretse, O.M.; Letsatsi, M. T.; Dintwa, E.

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201817206003

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“…The country has a great potential for using solar power, because the average irradiation is 21 MJ/m2 daily and 3200 annual sunshine hours (Africa-eu-renewables, 2018). Botswana, however, has not deployed solar technology significantly due to socio-economic and regulatory challenges [3].…”

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Application of Design Thinking Concept to Assess the Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Areas in Botswana

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2021

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Over the past few decades, energy access has been a major challenge for most African countries due to increasing energy demand because of urban migration, increasing population, and enhanced standard of living. The issue of energy access in Botswana mostly affects rural settlements as the areas are usually far from the national electricity grid. This research was conducted using the Design Thinking (DT) approach to investigate energy availability and management in rural settlements. The DT methodology consists of six phases namely, understand, observe, define a point of view, ideate, prototype, and testing. Through the 'understand' phase, an intensive literature review was undertaken to assess the feasible renewable energy resources. In the 'observe' phase, interviews were conducted in rural settlements of the central region of Botswana. It was found out that cooking is the main energy need and the rural inhabitants travel up to 20km to collect firewood. A 'point of view' (POV) statement was then created from the interview to initiate the ideation stage. The 'Ideate' phase involved using viable technologies to generate solutions targeted at the profile defined in the POV. A selection matrix was then used to obtain the best energy solution. Through the 'prototyping' phase, a concept model biogas digester was designed for rural settlements. This paper reports on the first 4 stages of DT methodology and the other stages will be presented in future as the final part of the study.

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“…Coal reserves in Botswana are estimated at 212 billion tonnes, of which 3.34 billion tonnes are measured [3]. The main local power production in Botswana is from a thermal station using coal as fuel.…”

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Application of Design Thinking Concept to Assess the Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Areas in Botswana

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“…Botswana is an individual from the Southern African Development Community (SADC). [1] Sparsely populated Botswana's property region is bigger than Spain and overwhelmed by the immense Kalahari Desert. Botswana has bounteous precious stone and other characteristic assets, a market-situated economy, and one of Africa's most astounding sovereign FICO scores.…”

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Role of academia-industry collaboration in enriching engineering education: A case study in sub-sahara context

Agarwal¹,

M.T²,

Marumo³

et al. 2018

IJET

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Education and training stays one of the key parts of technical institutions, particularly in sub-Sahara nations where the absence of talented laborers is a noteworthy bottleneck impeding the intensity and imaginative limit of firms. Building instruction is deficient with regards to an association amongst information and certifiable issues. Building training as a human undertaking is likewise confronting various extra difficulties of securing, and reception of information, advancement and innovation exchange, fortifying the instructive venture and occupation manifestations. Abilities improvement has been, and still is, an argumentative issue in the scholarly world and in addition mechanical segment. Presently days, the greater part of the universities are confronting the issue of absence of viable learning and experience among their lecturers who have joined the instructing soon after completing their graduation. This paper talks about the necessity of a compelling collaboration amongst the scholarly world and industry which has turned into an undeniably a basic part of productive national development frameworks. Industry encounter enables instructive projects to grow in inventive ways. The contextual investigation examined, demonstrates that such collective endeavors can prompt expanded organization with researchers from various and interdisciplinary foundations.

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Black and organic carbon fractions in fine particulate matter by sectors in the South Hemisphere emissions for decision-making on climate change and health effects

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Carrasco

Díaz-Robles

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Review of Energy Status and Associated Conservational Issues in Botswana

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Application of Design Thinking Concept to Assess the Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Areas in Botswana

Application of Design Thinking Concept to Assess the Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Areas in Botswana

Role of academia-industry collaboration in enriching engineering education: A case study in sub-sahara context

Black and organic carbon fractions in fine particulate matter by sectors in the South Hemisphere emissions for decision-making on climate change and health effects

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