06-11-2007
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
The prime minister wishes to see Cambodian deminers fulfilling a greater number of missions in the world, but he also raised the foreign language barrier these deminers are now facing with.
In a speech for the opening of the National Congress for the updating of the demining strategy in Cambodia, on Tuesday 06 November, Prime minister Hun Sen indicated that he was thinking of sending Cambodian deminers, under the UN mandate, to other countries beyond Sudan where they are already present. “But we have a problem. It’s the foreign languages handicap. The deminers do not speak English or French,” Hun Sen noted. To him, “Cambodia is a poor country, but it has a heart.” Proud of his country, Hun Sen affirmed that “Cambodia, under the UN banner, can participate in missions and offer its services, in particular, in the demining sector, in construction, and in health.” A group of 139 Cambodian deminers is currently operating in Sudan, taking over from a first group of 135 people, a few months back. The first group cleaned up 44-hectare of minefields during a one-year mission, it also destroyed 2,000 anti-personal landmines and 200 anti-tank landmines.
In a speech for the opening of the National Congress for the updating of the demining strategy in Cambodia, on Tuesday 06 November, Prime minister Hun Sen indicated that he was thinking of sending Cambodian deminers, under the UN mandate, to other countries beyond Sudan where they are already present. “But we have a problem. It’s the foreign languages handicap. The deminers do not speak English or French,” Hun Sen noted. To him, “Cambodia is a poor country, but it has a heart.” Proud of his country, Hun Sen affirmed that “Cambodia, under the UN banner, can participate in missions and offer its services, in particular, in the demining sector, in construction, and in health.” A group of 139 Cambodian deminers is currently operating in Sudan, taking over from a first group of 135 people, a few months back. The first group cleaned up 44-hectare of minefields during a one-year mission, it also destroyed 2,000 anti-personal landmines and 200 anti-tank landmines.
23 comments:
Why don't he clean his own ass prior to wiping some's else.
PLEASE LOG ON TO THIS SITE:
http://www.apopo.org
To see success on demining. Once in the site click to your destinations.
Wow! they are using rats "Targeting the explosives' smell, rats detect both metal and plastic mines, and unexploded ordnance (UXO)." I can't believe it work!
THERE ARE MANY RATS IN THE CPP & NEC. HUN SEN IS THE BIGGEST RAT! WE COULD TRAIN HIM TO DETECT ALL OF THE ORDINANCES. ONCE TRAINED, WE COULD LET HUN SEN OUT OF THE LEASH INTO THE MINEFIELDS!
Newspaper title "The rats family tree."
Hey stupids, de-mining is an international effort, not Cambodia. We only know how to plant mines, but we don't know how to remove it without the international aid. Thus, we must participate in the international de-mining activities.
We know who this Animal Viet troller @7:13AM pretending to be Khmer is. This animal Viet troller will be castrated and then euthanized when time comes.
Go home Viet troller!
Go home Vietcong!
THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, "STATES ENERGY CANNOT BE CREATED, NOR DESTROYED"
Solar Energy: Cambodia has enough daylight hours for solar panels if the CPP care enough for the country and the citizens. Clean and no Hazardous byproducts.
Wind Energy: for the wind turbines to work we needed wind speed. The minimum speed requirement are 1) small turbine needs approx 9 mph. 2) large turbine needs approx 13mph in order to work and generate electrical output. A small turbine generate enough energy need for a home, while a large generate enough energy for 600 homes. It' clean.
A large turbine has energy compacity of 1.8MW output. If the CPP is caring for the country and the citizens in this last 30 years. We wouldn't be buying electricity from Thailand and Vietnam.
CPP (Cons Pro People).
7:55, solar and wind can't provided the needed electricity. Plus, 1.8MW is not enough either. What we needed is about 2GigaWatt of power to fuel all the businesses and residential in Cambodia.
10:14AM
1.8MW is just one wind turbine, but if you want more add it up. If Hun Sen give the money back from what he stole from the people, says $ 600 million buy 200 wind turbines with complete system requirement that would give 520MW of Clean Renewal Energy. 6 solar panels on a roof top of the residential, would get you off the grid. Would the CPP do it?
I doubt any single wind turbine could produce 1.8MW of power. Do you know any company that make such a wind turbine? The biggest I heard off, and I mean a giant (15 floors high) win turbine produced only about 100kW top on the best windy day.
As for solar panel, forget about it. It won't even make 1/10th the power of the win turbine.
And where did you get the idea that Hun Sen stole $600 millions. Oh wait, don't tell me. from Ah Sam Rainsy, Ranarith, and KKF, Am I wrong?
One of the largest wind turbine producers: Vestas, offers since 2002 3 MW Windturbines.
http://www.vestas.com/en/wind-power-solutions/wind-turbines/3.0-mw
More research is on the way.
For the climate situation of cambodia - with a lot of vegetation and only few electric grid networks you should first prefer single, island solution: Solar, wind and especially small biomass turbines in every rural village. That is comparable cheap and you don't need to buy coal or oil as raw material.
Did you know that California plans to install in the next 10 years 300 MW Solar power? EVERY YEAR!! So - in the year 2017 they will have installed 3.000 MW Photovolatik Energy.
http://www.gosolarcalifornia.ca.gov/
It is possible!
4:02, I don't see any 3 MW Photo cell in your link. Can you be more direct?
or give the path to it from the home site.
5:34, the Link goes to the Solar Initiative from California. It is said there: "California has made a bold decision... to place 3,000 megawatts of new, solar produced electricity systems on rooftops by 2017. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's goal is to put solar systems on a million California roofs.
But that's only part of the big picture. About 10.2 percent of the electricity we use comes from renewable sources - biomass, geothermal, small hydroelectric, solar, and wind (see graph below)."
This is one of the biggest PV programes ever launched. Before that Germany was/is the biggest PV - country. It is expected, that in 2007 in Germany there will be new solar installations of about 700 to 1.000 MW. But the biggest renewable energy in Germany is wind power.
I will try to find more data if you wish, but it will take some time.
So, I collected some data:
Here are some key statics from Germany, June 2007.
They are from an official publication of the Ministry of Envirement: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU)
Here is the Homepage in English:
http://www.bmu.de/english/aktuell/4152.php
And with this Link you find a page where you can download a pdf with actual
Data in English:
http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/inhalt/5996/
It is called:
Renewable energy sources in figures – national and international development
- Status: June 2007 -
Here some figures:
Windenergy:
With an installed capacity of 20,622 megawatts in 2006, Germany remains the world leader in windpower use.
Biomass:
In total, over 16 TWh of electricity was supplied in this way in 2006.
Hydropower
The electricity yield from hydropower depends not only on the installed capacity, but also on weather conditions. For example,
in 2006, electricity generation, at 21.6 TWh, was barely higher than in 2005.
Photovoltaic world champion: Newly installed capacity of 950 MWp (2005: 863 MWp),
higher than in Japan (approximately 300 MWp) [ZSW 3; Solar Verlag 66; Focus 69]; newly installed solar thermal collector area: around 1,400,000 m2 (2005: 960,000 m2), giving over 8.6 million m2 in total.
…. So, a lot of information.
Here are some webpages with informations belonging to the energy situation in SEAsia:
http://www.aseanenergy.org/
If you will have a look at “Electricity Prices”, you will see, that Cambodia has the highest prices in the whole region. What do you have to pay for one kWh in Cambodia? In Germany we pay about 0,20€ for 1 kWh, that is 0,29 USD.
Here are some information about the Cambodian situation:
http://www.recambodia.org/energoverview.htm
It is said, that the total installed capacity is about 300 MW, but this is maybe to low. Lets say, Cambodia has now 600 MW installed capacity and is in need for three times that much – 1.800 MW in the next 5 years.
Take Germany as an example: At the moment, installed Wind power Capacity: 20.622 MW. Total population: 80 Mio. Divided through 6, you get around the numbers for Cambodia: 13,3 Mio – take the wind power: 3.437 MW !! So Cambodia would have more than enough electricity, if you would only install the amount of wind energy capacity per head of germany! And you should know, that this clean, renewable type of energy is at the moment at the same costs as coal power!
5:54, are you going to listen to the Terminator man? He's full of shit.
Anyway, I look at the picture of those solar panels on those roofs. It aint going to be enough to even run a 32" color TV on your best sunny day in the desert. Forget the solar panel, dude.
As for the win turbine, I just finish reading the 3MW model specification, and it required 17m/sec wind. Which is about half the speed of you category 1 hurricane, LOL. Cambodia don't have that type of win everyday, or even once a month. However, at a wind speed of 5meter/sec it could generate 250kw of power which might be nice for a few home along the beach, but you will need to add some more components (battery and inverter) because our beach is quite calm from deep night to late morning. At this time you may want to run on battery that is charged from the day time when the wind average is about 5 meter/sec. Accordingly, the drawback is having to pay for a 3MW power generator and only benefited from 1/10th of the power. Thus, I don't think it will sell here.
Also FYI, the damn thing is about 30 floors high with each propeller fin of about 10 floors high, LOL. We don't have anything that tall in Cambodia. However, it is interesting to see how they install one of them thing in their video though.
Yeah 6:33, that is what I said in post 10:14, that we'll need about 2Gigawatt, which is equal to 2,000Mw.
As for price we pay slightly higher than you, but varying from 5% to 25% depend on the location.
Biomass, I haven't look into it yet, but I will once I have more free time.
6:52, I am not a fan of Schwarzenegger, don't worry. But his move to renewable energy is certainly a good thing.
Wind power we do have mainly in the north of the country, where we have more wind. In the south of the country there a lot of PV - on single rooftops and huge installations on the field, like this 12 MW installation, which was more than a year ago the largest on earth. Now, there a some much bigger ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ArPZA1uRZ8
In areas with a lot of farming you will find a lot of biomass power plants. So most of the german farmers don't produce only food, but energy, too.
to 7:05 - If your price for electricity is now already as high as in Germany, what do you expect will happen if you will build up a centralized Energy System with one or two power plants, depending on fuel imports and with the need to build a nationwide grid system? I am convinced that a decentralized system with different types of small renewable energy power plants will be much more helpful for the country. Not for the few big companies like Sokimex...
If you will read more, look around after the topic "emission trading with certificats". This will be the method where the big "polluters" will pay and help to build up clean energy capacities worldwide.
7:42, I am highly skeptical about your 12MW solar panel field from the video. I need to know how much land it occupied to estimate it. plus, this type of technology is not practical for small country like Cambodia where we don't have land to waste.
As for Cambodia power generation, the problem is the size of the country. Not too many people like small business. So we are stuck with just a few companies. German is a larger country, so they can have more big businesses.
8:03, I am sorry that you don't believe these things.
The large PV - installations are mainly on not used land, for example: on filled waste deponies, at former russian military spaces in the east or empty gravel pits and so on.
Most of the installation are on top of buildings like farm barns or flat commercial buildings.
But you can believe me - Germany has no space to waste:
Have a look in the Wikipedia, Population Density of Cambodia is about 78 per square km (place 91), but in Germany we have 232 people on that space (place 37).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density
The question is always: how smart can you handle your resources?
Hun Sen is ah Dek Cho Leader or Dek Jor louj jeat Leader ?
http://hunsenmafia.blog.com
8:17, you don't understand. One roof top covered with solar cell from end to end will not supply even 1% of the house hold need. How are you going to provide the need of a 30 floors building that is covered by solar cell? Forget about solar technology. You will need a lot of lands for that to work.
Win turbine is much better in certain area.
6:23 - you say one roof top with solar cells cannot produce enough energy to supply the need of an household? Or just 1 %??
Sorry man, you have absolute no knowledge!
This is the website of a california based solar company:
http://openenergycorp.com/projects/projects.php
Look under the different projects, data sheets: The first house produces 9.000kWh per year. Is that enough for your needs?
Go and learn before you talk and judge about things you are not familiar with!
Okay, 2:04, I look at the data sheet, but I am still skeptical about the rating. When I got an oportunity, I will try to get someone from the US to order about a dozen tiles or so to test it out to see if it indeed capable of delivered as it claimed to be.
However, you asked an if 9,000kwh/yr. is good enough for my need? the answer is yes because I don't need much. However, the proper question should be if the 9,000kwh/yr. is enough for that house and its occupants. Personally I don't like that type of house. Anyhow, in Cambodia, that type of house will required Air-condition which alone will overload the system by about 50% or more. You do save a lot of money, but you steal have to pay for the PC, TV, Refrigerators, stove... depending on how many people live in the house is using all these devices. Thus, the answer is 9,000kwh is still shy for that house for Cambodia, but it might be okay for the top of mountain area because it is cooler, and you can eliminate air-condition.
On the other hand, if you modified the house ventilation system a little and use fan for cooling, it might work out. Again all this pending some realistic testing for Cambodia climax ... and so on. So I have to wait and see.
And if you could estimate the yearly electric expenses for the house in germany with a number of people living there, and you know how much you pay per Kwh, you will know if 9,000kwh/yr. is enough. If you can do that, I don't mind knowing about it. just curious.
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