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Every morning, the marine biologist Jean-Paul Roux heads out into Guano Bay to count penguins. With the sun still low in the sky, entire colonies of the birds gather on Halifax Island, waddling up and down and completely unmoved by the chilly gusts of wind that whip up the seawater, waves smashing against the bare rocks. Behind the beach, the desert begins. On the coast of Namibia , these two things – penguins and desert – are not a contradiction.
The dimensions of the megaproject are dizzying: With around 700 wind turbines and 50 hectares of solar panels, up to 375,000 tons of green hydrogen per year are to be produced southeast of the peninsula. The renewable energy is to be used for dividing desalinated water into its component elements of oxygen and hydrogen before the hydrogen is then combined with nitrogen so it can be shipped as ammonia. Once it reaches Germany, it will transformed back into hydrogen.
against the Herero and Nama peoples. He doesn’t find the comparison overwrought:"Go ahead and write that.”Project opponent Chris Brown:"Why does the hydrogen have to be produced in a national park, of all places?”He says he isn’t opposed to green hydrogen.
Raffinetti’s position is backed by the German government. Rainer Baake, a politician with the Green Party in Germany who directs the Climate Neutrality Foundation in Berlin in addition to being the German government’s special commissioner for the hydrogen project in Namibia, says he is"hopeful that an intelligent choice of location can avoid a conflict with species diversity.” Baake traveled to Windhoek in early September to reaffirm Berlin’s support for the project.
The controversial piece of land stretches about 100 kilometers southwest from Halifax Island, where the penguins gather, to a barren inland area. There are no trees, just a few knee-high bushes and very little rain – only a few liters per square meter of land per year. But it is home to more wind and sun than just about anywhere else in the world: over 200 days per year of cloudless skies and a constant wind from the south.
Brown insists that his organization is independent. But the environmental activist appears to have less of a problem with the mining that is ongoing in the area around Lüderitz, or with the new oil and gas fields off the coast of Namibia. The organization even expressly welcomes the offshore phosphate mines.
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