Creativity and quaggas: Commercialising university tech...
Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. The price of oil had jumped from $4 a barrel to $12 and his mind was occupied with the need for alternative energy sources and improved batteries for energy storage. He was later joined in this quest by PhD student Michael Thackeray. Their studies into battery materials heralded the start of a glorious 20-year period when the CSIR, supported by Anglo American, De Beers and the South African Inventions Development Corporation, as it was then known, made major contributions to advancing international battery science and technology. By 1984, the Zebra (sodium...
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