Sago misnomer as cycads are not palms. Extracting edible starch from the sago cycad requires special care due to the poisonous nature of cycads. Cycad sago is used for many of the same purposes as palm sago. The fruit of palm trees from which the sago is produced is not allowed to ripen fully. The full ripening completes the life cycle of the tree and exhausts the starch reserves in the trunk to produce the seeds. It leaves a hollow shell and causes the tree to die. The palms are cut down when they are about 15 years old, just before
Kibuye Power Plant 1 Kibuye Power Plant 1 Kibuye Power Plant 1, also Kibuye Thermal Power Station 1 (KP1), is a methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda. The power plant is located in Kibuye, Karongi District, in the Western Province of Rwanda, approximately , by road, west of Kigali, the capital and largest city in that country. Starting in 2006, with partial financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the government of Rwanda began sourcing for qualified engineering firms to design, build and operate a methane gas-powered electricity generating power plant, using gas extracted from the depths of Lake Kivu. One of the