South Africa mooted as platinum industry’s ‘Silicon Valley’

South Africa’s unique opportunity in platinum-related development is beckoning. There is growing conviction that South Africa could and should become the first mover in creating a kind of ‘Platinum Valley’ that emulates the great Silicon...

Fuel cells provide clean power, cut carbon, sustain jobs

Hydrogen fuel cells using platinum catalysts are efficient, versatile and scaleable and represent a proven technology that bestows clean, reliable and cost-effective power.

Fuel cells provide clean power, cut carbon, sustain jobs

Hydrogen fuel cells using platinum catalysts are efficient, versatile and scaleable and represent a proven technology that ensures clean, reliable and cost-effective power. This is a strong endorsement of the long-studied fuel-cell technology....

16/12/2011 (On-The-Air)

The US retail giant Walmart is storming into South Africa waving a big green wand; South Africa’s Sasol has bought into the new billion-dollar climate-change technology project in Norway; and South Africa has a great opportunity to use platinum,...

09/12/2011 (On-The-Air)

Anglo American says ‘hundreds of thousands of jobs’ can be created in South Africa from developing fuel cells, Brazil and South Africa are in talks to trade with the rand and the real rather than the dollar and the euro; and the local...

Durban’s climate-change failure risk to mining – ICMM

Failure to reach a global climate-change agreement in Durban and countries going it alone would result in the mining industry having to deal with 195 different regulatory regimes, which posed a “terrible management risk", International Council...

UNFCCC endorses eMalahleni water reclamation plant

The eMalahleni water reclamation plant in the Witbank Coalfields was the only mining initiative to be endorsed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Momentum for Change Initiative at the COP 17 meeting in Durban,...

'Hundreds of thousands of jobs', clean power from fuel cells – Anglo

The window of opportunity is “wide open” for South Africa to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs and simultaneously obtain a source of clean of emission-free power, Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll said in Durban. “With platinum at...

SA supports carbon capture technology but costs a concern

South Africa was fully committed to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, but the cost of CCS remained "prohibitively high" for developing countries like South Africa, which have a myriad of socioeconomic challenges to deal with, Energy...

25/11/2011 (On-The-Air)

Hopes of generating massive amounts of clean electricity from Central Africa are being rekindled; South Africans need to recycle more as part of our response to combating climate change; and the Russian company Renova is keen to invest more in...

SA carbon tax could have growth, jobs co-benefits – World Bank

The introduction of a “modest” carbon tax in South Africa would have relatively low adjustment costs while raising revenue that could be deployed to cut other growth- and job-inhibiting taxes, or to make growth-enhancing infrastructure...

Company Announcement: Africa Energy Indaba and Arnold Chatz Cars Partner up to Drive Eco Awareness

The Africa Energy Indaba has partnered with Fiat and Alfa Romeo Specialist, Arnold Chatz Cars.