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Lake Kivu: Explosive If Unexploited Words Oroni Tendera
Startupmagazine.co.ke
March 2020
Lake Kivu is at risk of exploding from built up gases. The 18th largest lake in the world has dissolved gases composed majorly of 300 cubic kilometres of carbon dioxide and 60 cubic kilometres of methane, trapped below 260 metres depth. According to http://www.lake-kivu.org,
these gases are dissolved ‘like in a bottle of coke.’ But what exactly would disturb the tranquility of lake Kivu? “The methane may not spontaneously
