Browsing: energy

Hearing aids are essential for people with hearing loss. But hearing aids have an Achilles heel: their power supply is…

South Africans that make use of solar backup power (and that number is growing thanks to load shedding), may be…

It’s no secret that load shedding has become exponentially worse over the past decade. According to the Council for Scientific…

The need to transition to clean energy is apparent, urgent and inescapable. We must limit Earth’s rising temperature to within…

Who does Gwede Mantashe think he’s fooling? The mineral resources & energy minister has been leading a one-man, climate change-denialist…

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter is looking beyond SA’s coal addiction to new, appropriate technologies and smarter investment strategies. Stuff…

“The problem is the batteries are stupid,” a close friend told me 12 years ago about his then highly rare…

Toby Shapshak chats to key players in SA’s solar energy industry, like Mike Peo who is the head of infrastructure and telecoms at Nedbank, along with the team at Eldo Energy. They went from making solar panels to managing the infrastructure related to the solar market. A market that has been growing rapidly in South Africa due to… obvious reasons. Increasingly, South Africans are looking for alternative energy sources, so let’s hear what the experts suggest.

Perhaps there isn’t room for another would-be Tesla to challenge the established automotive industry with a novel electric car and leapfrog the challenges of manufacturing.

There’s little doubt the information technology revolution has improved our lives. But unless we find a new form of electronic…