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I have just done detailled articles about Inga dams and projects on the French version. The 39,000 MW project is not Inga III (only 4,500 MW) but the Grand Inga project. Vberger 08:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- The output of the whole dam aite is so large that it could not be used in Africa alone due to system security issues - but it is feasible to interconmect all African grids and to those of Europe with large mutual benefits. http://www.claverton-energy.com/vision-2020-and-beyond-dr-gregor-czisch-ex-kassell-university-discussed-the-integration-of-african-power-production-internally-and-with-europe-to-fully-exploit-the-vast-hydro-power-available-at-the.html - paper by Dr Gregor Czisch, Kassell University.
The above insertion was removed by AL with the comment: August 2009 Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Gasification do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. User A1 (talk) 04:21, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
The removed comment is perfectly valid - the Grand Inga dam could not be built without interconnection to Europe, due to securing issues and funding issues. The links are not advertising they are to authoritative experts sources - so why was the addition which is perfelty valid removed. I intend to re insert it unless I get a valid explanation. Also a link to this article which explains that it may well get world bank funding. http://www.claverton-energy.com/fury-at-plan-to-power-eu-homes-from-congo-dam-grand-inga-world-bank-supports-controversial-80bn-project.html
The point is that the source is too large to rely on for the whole of Africa alone - it could fail and throw the whole grid down. By interconnection with Europe, Europe can provide back up to Africa at no extra costs. Thanks Engineman ( talk) 15:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
I propose to merge the Grand Inga Dam into this article. The Grand Inga Dam is currently very short article and merging it here with restoring deleted information will create more comprehensive overview of Inga dams. Also all other dams are included in this article. Beagel ( talk) 08:49, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian ( talk) 23:51, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Inga Dam →
Inga Dams – This is not a single dam, but two existing and two proposed dams. Therefore,
Inga Dams or
Inga dams seems more accurate title. Also, we already have an article with a title
History of the Inga Dams.
Beagel (
talk)
06:08, 19 January 2012 (UTC)