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Innovation key to future SA transport
Experts say the country needs to become more innovative in its solutions — with an emphasis on integration — before it is too late, writes Mark Smyth
Look at a graphic showing the places in the world where the air is not suitable for our lungs and the results are alarming. Huge swathes of red blanket parts of Africa, the Middle East, India and China. In SA the situation also does not look great, particularly in Gauteng which shows up as a big red spot. SA’s government and municipalities are putting in place plans to overturn the situation, but Carel Snyman of the South African National Energy Development Institute says these need to be accelerated. Snyman says transport will be one of the only sectors in SA where energy demand will increase by 2050. The transport sector uses 34% of the country’s energy but Snyman says this will increase to 44%. This is compared to a decline in energy demands of the industrial sector from 37% to 34% and residential from 11% to 8%. He points out that SA exports gold to pay for the import of oil and, alarmingly, SA will deplete its gold within 20 to 30 years. Oil stocks are also declining. Our relia...
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