Posts Tagged business ideas
Ghana’s capital discards 300 tons of plastic per day, now they mix it with sand and use it as street paving that is cheaper than concrete – The Times of India
Mac Minis Hosting service
Jun 24
Notes: https://exolabs.net https://www.exoplatform.com/services-offer/
Ex-Tesla exec builds the home heat pump Tesla gave up for robots | Electrek
Africa’s biggest untapped resource isn’t oil or gold, it’s $469 billion in lost revenue AfDB says digitised tax systems, stronger institutions and better compliance could unlock the revenue. 88% of Africa’s workforce remains informal as governments struggle to collect taxes | Business Insider Africa
Meet the startups installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the grid | Fortune
Curtailment, negative prices push Greek small- and medium-sized PV asset owners toward bankruptcy
May 14
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/curtailment-negative-prices-push-greek-small-and-medium-sized-pv-owners-toward-bankruptcy/ use the negative prices to make hydrogen, methanol, petrol and buy some batteries behind the meter to take part in the energy market in the evening when the prices normalise, this is an opportunity, crazy that it’s being missed.
https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-a-solar-canopy-5192784
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg31l3d2qgo
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/30/altitude-partners-with-empacar-bolivia-becomes-first-commercial-buyer-to-reach-1-million-t-cdrs-financed
How we made it in africa
Mar 30
https://howwemadeitinafrica.substack.com
https://news.sky.com/story/why-ending-the-manufacture-of-a-humdrum-substance-would-be-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-an-industry-that-was-once-britains-pride-13494625
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Fisheries-sector-moves-to-close-US-800-million-annual-supply-gap-2018849