Quest Volume 22 Number 3 " Energy Transition" 2026

Abstract

Who benefits from the green energy transition?: A solar farm in Limpopo offers clues for the communities who gave up the land; Life after coal: How closed mines and power stations could be used for green energy and farming; Green jobs, uneven gains: The shift to cleaner energy is creating work, but not for everyone; Park the car, power the house: The maths behind vehicle-to-grid; Eskom goes green: The utility’s new renewables business is targeting 32GW by 2040; Careers focus: From cattle pastures to the just transition: a career that was never a straight line; A fingerprick, an X-ray and AI: The plan to catch the tuberculosis cases South Africa currently misses; Rooibos heads to space: Cederberg learners run an experiment aboard the International Space Station; Why students struggle with science at school: Prof Jonathan Jansen takes over a Grade 9 class on the Cape Flats; Frozen, salty and very much alive: What South African scientists found inside Antarctic sea ice; Rooted in geology: Reading southern Africa’s past to test our predictions of its future; South African students need an AI evidence habit: Check the claim before you carry it forward; Are our sacred springs really pristine?: Microplastics turn up at Isinuka and along the Bongwana Fault; A living library of fruit: Inside South Africa’s field gene banks; Africa builds the radio telescope bound for the Moon; South African researchers rub shoulders with the science elite; Waste to innovation: turning plastic bottles into 3D printing filament.