With just a few months before the red carpets are rolled out for global leaders at this year’s long-awaited COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, large corporations and development finance institutionsare beating their path to commit large investments towards facilitating achievement of JustTransition targets amongst their investee countries.Speaking at the 2022 Africa Climate Week in…
Chemical and materials company BASF announced today that it has entered into new virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs), sourcing 250 MW of wind and solar power to help offset to help power more than 20 of its U.S. manufacturing sites. With the new agreements, more than 25% of BASF’s total North American electricity consumption will…
To imagine a complete, supplant of human brain capacity to AI could be a remote achievement by all stretches of the imagination. To treat brain cells would require some significant measure of investment in similar studies, that’s common medical and human approbation, of which extant is underwritten by the elaborate monies laid out.However, assuming that…
According to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA), over the last year, 387,125 vehicles worth R148 billion, along with R53.7 billion worth of automotive components, were exported from South Africa to 151 countries. The international trend toward electric vehicles (EVs) is growing with NAAMSA expecting that 40% of all European vehicle…
It has been introduced in a trial amongst Technical, Vocational, Education and Training (TVET) colleges and aims to generate a curriculum relevant to the global shift to non-internal combustion drive trains. The High Gear program also assists students who want to work in the industry with career advice and guidance in giving them the best…
But there can’t be a better reward for having so much riches if it doesn’t give you some authority over your fellow man. As perplexing as that may sound, Musk and Nueralink invested heavily in research that may forecast the compute patterns and outcomes of the most complex computer ever built. Even the Holy Grail…
Ramaphosa said the framework advocates for a massive expansion of renewable energy, battery storage, new energy vehicles, green minerals and the hydrogen economy. The framework underpins an agreement between South Africa, the UK, US, Germany, France and the EU to grant access to an $8.5 billion investment in the shift away from fossil fuels. The…
Various studies, particularly during the Obama administration, collaborated on a project called the Human Genome to obtain scientific evidence about the brain; naturally, the basis for that collaboration was not to advance the biological ratio but to remedy the vagaries caused by diseases of our lifetime. Scientists believed that greater understanding will lead to novel…
Uranium mining is the process of retrieving uranium from deposits for use in nuclear reactors to generate electricity. Uranium is also used for the important task of producing medical isotopes.In South Africa, where the ciuntrt remains energy scarce, disvcsuiions around uranium are kocated within the discusiions on whether the country can afford large-scale nuclear energy…
Elon Musk envisions a future machine that can compute information faster and more efficiently than the human brain. When Musk tweeted, “The Ratio of Digital to Biological Compute is Growing Fast. Worth Tracking,” we all sat up, wondering how life has progressed so quickly that the world’s richest man sees a future in which machines…
