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A research into biodiesel will offer the best natural solution to current energy and environmental challenges. The study by a master's student Benjamin Mpeirwe may widely answer Uganda's energy supply constraint and create employment especially among the rural under class.
But the success of this project, the first of its kind has its ugly side that mirrors into several of such students struggling with research projects in energy.
A visit at Makerere Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation was an eye opener. If it was not the good will of foreign organisations, no masters' student would complete a research project because none of them can afford it.
Mpeirwe, now a finalist at faculty of technology almost failed to complete his bio-diesel project.
He wrote one proposal after another to win favour with a private company that injected about Shs60 million in a project he will defend next week.
A research into biodiesel will offer the best natural solution to current energy and environmental challenges. The study by a master's student Benjamin Mpeirwe may widely answer Uganda's energy supply constraint and create employment especially among the rural under class.
But the success of this project, the first of its kind has its ugly side that mirrors into several of such students struggling with research projects in energy.
A visit at Makerere Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation was an eye opener. If it was not the good will of foreign organisations, no masters' student would complete a research project because none of them can afford it.
Mpeirwe, now a finalist at faculty of technology almost failed to complete his bio-diesel project.
He wrote one proposal after another to win favour with a private company that injected about Shs60 million in a project he will defend next week.