The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted violently, sending tremors rumbling through the water beneath them.
last May that spooked them, but the enormous concentrations of potentially explosive gases within Kivu, one of Africa's great Rift lakes lying between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But these catastrophes occurred in a rural area, whereas some 2 million people would be"at risk" of such a similar disaster involving Kivu, said Darchambeau. The extracted methane is sent through a pipeline to a second facility located onshore in Rwanda, where the gas is transformed into electricity. The lava flow killed 32 people and destroyed hundreds of homes, as earthquakes shook the region. A second wave of lava pushed deep into the earth under the lake itself."It was very frightening," said Nundah.
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