After meeting with some initial success in Kenya, where, over the past 3 years, sites have been drilled to identify local hotspots, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), along with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will fund a new entity — the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo)-- to tap
into the Rift Valley's vast, unexplored geothermal potential, according to SciDev.Net's Laura Garca.
Not exact matches
The program would convert the heat created by the
rift valley's underground activity
into electricity through a series of steam wells.
In addition to speciation, a second major process that begins during this period is the episodic migration of hominins out of the
Rift Valley and
into Eurasia.
The East African
Rift Valley stretches over 3,000 km from the Gulf of Aden in the north towards Zimbabwe in the south, splitting the African plate
into two unequal parts: the Somali and Nubian plates.
Day 4 Travel through the Great
Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.
Travel through the Great
Rift Valley into Lake Nakuru National Park (3.5 hrs), stopping to view Thomson's falls en route.
Sells describes Botswana as a terrain «where the last contours of the
Rift Valley shift downwards, tilting ever so slightly, to bring the rains from the highlands of Angola, in the form of an annual flood
into the Kalahari sands.