Afghanistan goes green thanks to the British military?
More than 2,000 UK troops were among nearly 4,000 international and Afghan personnel taking part in the five-day operation.
The turbine, which is eventually expected to supply electricity to around 1.5 million people, arrived at the Kajaki hydro-electric plant in Helmand province under cover of darkness yesterday.
The giant turbine was split into seven sections, each weighing almost 30 tons, and hidden inside shipping containers for the journey along the Helmand river valley, which has been held by insurgents for more than two years.
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- lecoke
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Great to hear they are going green over there.
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- Technogeek
- 4 months ago
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It's fascinating that energy solutions like this are employed in places like this not because they're eco-friendly, but because they're relatively cheap and sustainable.
It reminds us that, in reality, they're better all round than some of the more 'modern' energy sources we use.
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- LindseyIndigo
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They had to fight off many insurgents to complete this project and had asked journalists not to report the mission until it was over.
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That convoy would have crawled through one of the most dangerous parts of the world. It would have been seen for miles and they would have been virtually sitting targets.
Projects like this should be publicised widely. Too often the development work that is undertaken post-war is over shadowed by the crimes during. I'm not suggesting for a second that they should be overlooked but do we really think that if projects like this had been undertaken from day one in Iraq we would be having the same issues?
