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renewable energy PhotoBy geralt from Pixabay

renewable energy PhotoBy geralt from Pixabay

Spare a Thought for the Bramble Cay Melomys as you Spew Fumes from your ICE today After last being seen by a fisherman on it’s home island of isolated Bramble Cay – a tiny Torres Strait vegetated coral cay located at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in Papua New Guinea, off the …

Solar powered.via Instagram ift.tt/2U5myQCBy eric.schweichler on 2019-02-23 09:36:45

Polestar has taken the next step in its development as the electric performance brand with the reveal of the new Polestar 2. Polestar 2 is the new all-electric fastback that brings electric performance cars to a broader and increasingly progressive audience. It offers avant-garde design and a unique customer experience in the premium compact electric …

The Last Straw Beckons The Department of Environmental Affairs is currently engaging industry and consumer bodies on proposals to phase out or completely ban plastic products like straws and microbeads. Mark Gordon, the department’s deputy director-general for chemical and waste management, said the single-use products are considered to be unfriendly to the environment, especially the …

TruSeal prepares quarter-million biodegrable security seals for SA delivery The problem of billions of non-biodegradable plastic straws ending up in the world’s oceans has received much attention of late. This prompted local security seal specialist, TruSeal (Pty) Ltd, to investigate environmentally-friendly options for its range of tamper-evident plastic security seals. “We use a lot of …

Volkswagen is preparing its digital ecosystem for the core markets of the future ID. model family. The ID. will be the first vehicle to use the Automotive Cloud and is to be launched in Europe in 2020. Production is to start in China the same year and a member of the ID. family will roll …

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (NYSE: FCAU / MTA: FCA) confirmed today plans to invest a total of $4.5 billion in five of its existing Michigan plants, and to work with the city of Detroit and state of Michigan on building a new assembly plant within city limits. The move would increase capacity to meet growing …

Renewable energy zindabadBy DoshiJi on 2009-07-10 17:07:06

The Supervisory Board of Porsche AG has decided to manufacture the next generation of the Macan as a fully electric series. This will be the first all-electric SUV from Porsche, and is due to roll off the assembly line at the start of the next decade. The development represents an expansion of the Porsche range …

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Urbanologi adopts a new take on fine, eco-friendly food Restaurant home-sources fresher, tastier ingredients around Joburg Urbanologi, a gastronomic hub inside Jozi’s award-winning Mad Giant brewery, has taken a bold new stride in its journey to ecosystem sustainability and upended its strategy for sourcing ingredients. Project 150 is Urbanologi’s new culinary mantra that sees all …

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SPAR golf day provides a boost for marine life In an event slightly more compact than usual, SPAR Eastern Cape were still able to make a significant contribution to supporting the environment when they hosted their annual Charity Golf Day in Port Elizabeth last week. The event took place at the Humewood Golf Course on …

Innovators BeeInventive have given their signature Flow Hive a makeover, increasing both bee and honey storage capacity. With reports of world insect populations plummeting, the timing couldn’t be better. The ease of harvesting honey with a Flow Hive continues to inspire many thousands of people around the world to take up beekeeping. “We love receiving …

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Packaging Designers Eye Aluminium As Viable Alternative For Packaging The world of packaging is changing rapidly and right before our eyes. Packaging that has been generally accepted as conventional for many years, has suddenly become unacceptable. Reacting to a very vocal consumer market, as well as statutory and regulatory pressures that demand alternative, environmentally responsible …

Renewable Power of DestructionDestroying planets without harming the environment with nasty greenhouse gases : thanks to its new concept of Solar Death Star (fig. 1), the Galactic Empire is ready for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Stormtroopers 365 > Day 249/365 [Subscribe: (feed) – (mail) – (twitter) – (facebook)] New Stormtroopers 365 calendar for 2010 …

Media statement by the Minister of Energy, Jeff Radebe, on the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) programme Background Energy remains the primary driver to our socio-economic development. That is why matters pertaining the global supply of oil, gas, coal, nuclear, coal and renewable energy occupies centre stage of our public socio-economic discourse. In …

The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPP) is making a significant impact on the economy, job creation, community upliftment, economic transformation and climate change. The REIPPP is a competitive tender process that has been designed to facilitate private sector investment into grid-connected renewable energy generation. In a short, 8-year period it has attracted …

How to live a hassle-free lifestyle with Renishaw Hills There is a growing trend to shake off the shackles of consumerist living by choosing a minimalist lifestyle, and one of the biggest changes to consider is your home. Renishaw Hills, a mature lifestyle village on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, is embracing this minimalist ideal where …

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Eskom – Looks like we have finally learned from the mistakes of the Nationalist Government A long long time ago the Nationalist Apartheid Government of South Africa embarked on a ‘grand plan’ to nationalise the production and distribution of electricity in South Africa via EksDom Eskom. The reasons were probably around centralised control of a …

Renewable energyA windmill being propped up by a stickBy zaza_bj on 2008-09-20 17:42:32

The countdown has begun: at the sun-drenched “Circuit de Almería” in Andalucía, the purely electric powered ID. R began the preparatory phase for its record attempt on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Driver Romain Dumas, who in summer 2019 will seek to break the current record for electric vehicles on the 20.832 kilometres racetrack in the Eifel, completed …

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Can’t see the Energy for the Sun Humankind is often blinded by perception and/or assumption, hence sayings such as; “He can’t see the wood for the trees” and now; “We can’t see the energy for the sun”! The simple fact of the matter is that 99.86% of our solar system’s mass is taken up by …
