Being the first fully online institution of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa, it has given us an opportunity to develop new methods of learning and teaching.

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In fact, the industry is investing billions of dollars a year of its own private capital to develop new methods to deploy natural gas to fuel cars and trucks.

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That money provides lots of incentive to develop new patented systems and methods along the way.

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