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Nakuru (Kenya), Jul 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Daniel Irungu) Cooking up some lunch over a hot stove of burning human excrement might sound unappetizing, but in the Kenyan city of Nakuru, this alternative fuel source is reducing contamination and providing jobs. The product, dubbed Makaa Dotcom, has brought fuel production full circle by collecting human waste and turning it into charcoal to heat stove-ovens in homes and restaurants, and to keep livestock warm. FOOTAGE OF THE MAKING OF THE CHARCOAL.SOUNDBITES OF JOHN IRUNGU, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN NAKURU .
To mark the end of the nuclear era in Germany, Greenpeace exhibits a 4-metre-long sculpture of a T.rex, lying on the ground and surrounded by nuclear waste barrels, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. On top of the dinosaur stands the anti-nuclear sun in victory pose, as a militant figure with a shield on which is written "nuclear power, no thanks". IMAGES
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will propose a cap on the "enormous revenues" being earned by nuclear and renewable power companies as they benefit from exorbitant electricity prices caused by the war in Ukraine. "Low carbon energy sources are making unexpected revenues, which do not reflect their production costs" she says, during a press conference on energy, held as European countries scramble to prepare for a difficult winter. SOUNDBITE
Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio signs a gas deal with Congolese oil minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua as Rome seeks to end its dependence on Russia for energy. IMAGES
The International Monetary Fund projects that energy prices "will be elevated" during the coming winter months but will then "come back down by the end of the first quarter next year and into the second quarter," IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath says in an interview with AFP. SOUNDBITE
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