Category: Electric

NOAA & NASA Spearheading Massive Air Quality Research Campaign This Summer

Scientists from NOAA, NASA and 21 universities from three countries are deploying state-of-the-art instruments in multiple, coordinated research campaigns this month to investigate how air pollution sources have shifted over recent decades. Since the 1970s, U.S. scientists and environmental regulators made significant strides in reducing air pollution by cleaning up tailpipe and smokestack emissions. Yet […]

South Africa Imported $1.1 Billion (4.4 GWh) Of Lithium-Ion Cells & Batteries In First 6 Months Of 2023!

It is really good to see that some people have started tracking some data and deducing what has been going on in South Africa’s solar PV and now also lithium-ion battery storage scene. Recently, we reported that some analysis by Johannesburg-based Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, a Senior Economist at Trade, Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), showed that $650 […]

Pension Wealth in Peril!

A well-known advertising campaign in Australia for a soft chewing mint featured situations of minor embarrassment with the tagline: “It’s moments like these you need Minties.” Unfortunately, as we approach global “boiling,” it is more likely that we will have a Minsky moment rather than be able to calm down by chewing a Mintie. A […]