Monthly Archive: September 2010

Sep 30

How It’s Made – Solar Panels

TweetEver wondered how solar panels are made? Water Rhapsody has incorporated Yes Solar Mpumalanga so that we can offer solar energy solutions in addition to our World Wildlife Award-winning water conservation systems. Yes Solar markets and supplies German Solsquare solar water heaters that are SABS- and Eskom-approved and are installed by qualified solar installers. Contact …

Sep 29

Hybrid solar system for heat and electricity funded

Tweet PVT Solar is entering the solar-panel market with a twist: its system generates electricity as well as heat. The San Francisco area-based start-up today said that it has raised a series B round of $13.7 million from Sigma Partners and named a former SunPower executive, Vikas Desai, as CEO. The money will be used …

Sep 28

Save money and the planet with these tips

TweetYou don’t have to build your own home or spend a fortune to live a little more sustainably. Even if you’re renting there are a number of simple things you can do to reduce your water use and power consumption. Saving water: Saving water can be as simple as fixing leaking taps and collecting the …

Sep 27

Dual grey- and drinking water reticulation systems could save SA’s high quality water

TweetMunicipalities may soon learn to utilise water of inferior quality for uses such as flushing the toilet in an effort to save drinking water. For example, irrigation in South Africa uses approximately 54% of the total freshwater demand followed by another major user, toilet flushing. Domestic toilet flushing consumes between 50 and 70% of a …

Sep 27

South African Ecopreneur talks to World Leaders

Tweet Werner Neuhoff, Ecopreneur from Water Rhapsody- South Africa, has been invited to join leaders from 70 nations in Montréal, Québec during 13-15 October for a World Leadership Conference that will draw women heads of state, corporations and enterprise, as well as members of the diplomatic community, women policy-makers, decision-takers and opinion-leaders on five continents. …

Sep 26

Abundant rainfall, intellectual drought

Tweet On a visit to South Africa, I walked into some Nigerian street hawkers in Johannesburg. One of them, noticing I was just visiting, commented, “Do you see how clean and nice this place is?” It reminded me of the conversation between two South Africans on my flight. They were returning home after a business …