by admin | Feb 3, 2025 | AI, AI News, artificial intelligence, Energy, News, nuclear fusion, The Conversation
The pursuit of nuclear fusion as a clean, sustainable energy source represents one of the most challenging scientific and engineering goals of our time. Fusion promises nearly limitless energy without carbon emissions or long-living radioactive waste. However,... by admin | Jan 12, 2025 | Energy, News, Other Tech News, renewable energy, South Africa, The Conversation
Bioenergy – the renewable energy derived from plant and animal waste products – is largely ignored in South Africa. Solar energy, wind power, and green hydrogen attract the most investment in renewable energy. Sugarcane trash (the discarded leaves and tops of the... by admin | Dec 23, 2024 | biological computers, computation, Computers, Energy, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second. However, this high speed and reliability comes at the cost of... by admin | Nov 25, 2024 | coal-burning, electricity, Energy, News, Other Tech News, Sasol, South Africa, The Conversation
The giant Secunda complex of Sasol, South Africa’s biggest chemicals and energy company, provides the fundamental ingredients to South Africa’s petrochemical sector. It produces petrochemicals, plastics, chemicals essential to key industries such as agriculture... by admin | Nov 24, 2024 | Column, Columns, Energy, Eskom, News, Other Tech News, prepaid electricity, prepaid meters, Toby Shapshak
It’s just amazing that a few days before the years-long deadline to upgrade Eskom’s prepaid electricity meters, there are still 2.2 million that haven’t been updated. The consequence will be a hefty bill (I’ve heard as high as R17,000) to physically replace the now... by admin | Nov 12, 2024 | Energy, green energy, Jobs, News, Other Tech News, skills, South Africa, The Conversation
Globally, there’s a shortage of people with the expertise and skills needed to drive the transition towards a green economy – known as green talent. The pool of green talent needs to be doubled by 2050 if the world is to move away from fossil fuels. In South Africa,...