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South Africa faces a hydrogen skills crisis
By Yershen Pillay, CHIETA CEO
In the next five to ten years, South Africa faces a major skills crisis in the local green hydrogen economy. Thousands of engineers, technicians and green artisans...
Engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
THE interiors of nonflowering trees such as pine and ginkgo contain sapwood lined with straw-like conduits known as xylem, which draw water up through a tree's trunk and branches. Xylem conduits...
Engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas...
Alarming number of engineers leaving SA
In a statement issued by the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), the organisation has decried South Africa's brain drain problem as reaching alarming proportions, particularly in the infrastructure sector.
SAICE...
Eskom to rebuild boiler at Duvha
According to SAnews.gov.za Eskom will restart the process for a contract to rebuild the Duvha 3 boiler which was expected to be concluded by the end of June 2016.
“Eskom previously...
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