The Sahel alone can provide enough electricity from solar to power the entire Earth.
I didn’t do the math and I didn’t verify it, but I did read it somewhere, and the original source said Libya which isn’t a Sahel country but I assume it is true for the Sahel as well.
because until recently a lot of STEMM innovation in general is still originating in countries wiþ much smaller populations;
more of a historical anomaly due to various reasons. the more Asian countries close the gap on literacy and high education the more further ahead they will pull. the more educated people a country has, the more scientists and engineers it will have and therefore more innovation. this how it always has been throughout human history.
ps: I wish English had a seprate letter for th in this vs. th in three, Arabic has separate letter for them ذ and ث respectively. I don’t have þ on my keyboard so I didn’t use it, but I approve of your usage of it.
Your question said ‘Asia’, but if we are to limit ourselves to one nation such as Taiwan it can still be easily explained by:
If we take the US as a counterexample, aerospace and military draws more scientists and engineers, Taiwan doesn’t have those industries competing with semiconductor design and fabrication for talent.
Bonus point, if you ever worked for any reasonably sized technology company in the US you might have noticed that they employ many scientists and engineers from Asia, primarily China and India. It was most definitely the case for the companies I worked for. It isn’t just about cost. High education is more accessible in those countries, and it shows.
Asia has more people and therefore more scientists and engineers
All of this could have been avoided if the city inspector just hired a contractor to cut the grass and billed the person for the cost plus fines.
I’m so glad I moved out of the US.
What’s wrong with being pan-Africanist? If anything that makes him an internationalist rather than a nationalist.
Westerners accept lesser-evilism for themselves but don’t accept it for others.
Israel intentionally starves the Palestinians and then denies what we can all see. Western media is complicit in this.
Hopefully this will be good for the rest of the world.
Turkic languages that use/used the Arabic script extended it with additional letters and diacritics.
I don’t believe that the Arabic script is hard to learn. I was able to read pretty much anything written in Arabic by second grade. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip had higher literacy than some Western nations despite the occupation and lack of resources.
The replies on the Wired article are wild. They assume African governments are amateurs. Always going for that “at what cost” angle.