“While this energy gap remains a major barrier to Africa’s sustained economic development, it inversely presents opportunities for many African nations.”
Read MoreDay: 4 Dec 2019
145 Years After Jules Verne Dreamed Up a Hydrogen Future, It Has Arrived
Verne wrote of a world where “water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable”.
Read MoreSouth Africa’s Real Water Crisis: Not Understanding What’s Needed
A serious multi-year drought in parts of South Africa’s Northern and Eastern Cape provinces has seen a number of small towns threatened by total water supply failures and livestock farmers facing financial ruin. In other parts of the country, heatwave conditions and the late onset of rains have caused local supply failures. Although the dams that supply most of the main urban areas are still at reasonable levels, there are growing fears that the country may be witnessing the start of a major drought. Cape Town’s experience of extreme “Day Zero” supply restrictions only adds to…
Read MoreEskom, Arcelor Among SA Firms Lacking Emissions Plans
Eskom, which accounts for two-fifths of South Africa’s greenhouse-gas emissions, leads the country’s biggest emitters in its failure to set targets to reduce its impact on the climate, a report shows. The state power utility, which produces most of its electricity from coal, also doesn’t disclose who at the company is responsible for assessing its climate-based risks, the Cape Town-based Centre for Environmental Rights said in a report released on Monday. With its economy heavily dependent on mining and manufacturing, South Africa ranks as the continent’s biggest producer of greenhouse…
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