Breathing Space

The ever increasing cost of energy is placing every greater stains on the household budgets.
The South African national electricity supplier (Eskom) has proposed tariff increases of 45% for each of the next three years. The effect will mean that clients will have to pay triple the current rate in three years time. […]

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Whenever we have weather that is unusual the weather bureau issues a statement to say that there is nothing unusual about the weather for this time of year.
 
If there is nothing unusual, then why the need for the statement? There are still many global warming denialists populating the weather bureaus of the […]

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Supplying electricity using fossil fuels continues to emit pollution and CO2 into the atmosphere in large quantities. Nuclear power is cleaner but poses other problems. Huge resources are available free of charge to provide renewable energy. Solar power is a major source, and much attention has been focused on harnessing this resource in recent years. […]

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Hidden on page 8 of the Argus is a report on BP’s new V & A Waterfront head office in Cape Town. This building is designed for complete energy efficiency. Large windows and skylights to provide maximum natural lighting, solar heating and a photovoltaic farm on the roof.
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The South African power crisis resulting in load-shedding and near disaster for the local economy seemingly took everyone by surprise. Yet the electricity supplier were in a position to pre-warn and therefore pre-arm us. Through all of this the solutions that are being publicised are very much on the lines of building more conventional power […]

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