How Kusile chimney got damaged

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How Kusile chimney got damaged

Faulty emission control systems and human errors led to a cement-like deposit forming in the flue-gas duct of the Kusile power station, causing a part of the chimney-like structure to collapse on 23 October 2022, insiders have told Rapport.

The power utility first publicly confirmed the failure at the power station near Emalahleni in Mpumalanga on Wednesday, 2 November 2022 — 10 days after it occurred.
 
Tax payer punishment is always the outcome, but I always struggle to differentiate in cases like this whether it's due to greed or just sheer incompetence. Even worse, most times it both
 
The world has been building coal stations for decades. It like a template. Need a coal station here's the template for X go build.
Not these brain surgeons, they customised it to make more money and this is what we are left with.
 
This is the biggest bullshit story , it is more like poor workmanship and the lack of proper tradesmen and racism that has led to the imminent collapse of Eskom . It just a pity that these assholes are too stupid too admit that they have ****ed it up and they are too thick too see that the country will collapse once there is no power .
 
One of the sources told Rapport the problem with the leaking fly ash was so severe that much of the environment in the chimney’s immediate vicinity was covered in it, including the parking bays for plant workers’ cars.
And no one thought to check why that was happening, or they knew something was seriously wrong and just didn't care?
 
And no one thought to check why that was happening, or they knew something was seriously wrong and just didn't care?
Someone probably did, but the relevant "manager" was underqualified, did not care, suspended with pay, or all 3.
 
Not just SA, but over the Globe since 1992+, some of the Symptoms growing of Very High Level Corruption, was like incompete(Incompetance by design) societies over time, loose their proudness in doing something, loose their concept of Quality etc, in general Change for the sake of Change became the order of the day and that IDEOLOGY can only work if 7 Billion has enough Resources available to all become rich and have a good life, however that is NOT the case on Planet earth. The last 30 years was a WAR going on of a different kind like power struggles originated from the 50-Ties but went haywire when Digital Era took off(1992+, from the 80-Ties)), it became so easy to just add another cost apart from the original cost, so nowadays multiple extra costs are surrounding the orinigal main cost for the purpose, and these all add up and grew, destroying monetary systems over time as the system consumes itself. The poor suffer 1st, then the lower middleclass, then the upper middleclass, then the Ultra Rich starts to consume each other as all now continuously exponentially needs more money, while the Resources its coupled to wears off....You cannot eat or drink MONEY, although you made believe it to be.
Eskom is part of this, so are all the other entities over the globe showing similar Symptoms. Theres nothing good about this Ideology playing out, and nothing good can ever come from it over TIME.

To rectify this, those on the top should bent for a change, lower taxes, lower salaries, lower all prices, delete the abstract concepot of "INFLATION" from the books, and put a limit on profits or any sidestepping channelling of money. We have to go lower to level up with population numbers versus resources, cycles become slow and predicatable, some will still get very rich, but just not overnight, or by manufacturing CRAP, or create things for the sake of change, produce products that dont last long by design, all these Negative ideologies coupled to greed, destroys the fulture,

I believe sustainable change thats a better life for most will only come once this is understood, and that is not going to happen overnight. The whole globe is at least a financial/Resource/Population mess currently.

So whatever ideology you persue today, is it parasitic or constructive to humanity-?
 
So, do I get this right? A **** off big chimney fell over and they assumed nobody would notice for ten days? TEN F^&KING DAYS?

Christ, they really do reckon SA is stupid and they're very cleva.
 
Tax payer punishment is always the outcome, but I always struggle to differentiate in cases like this whether it's due to greed or just sheer incompetence. Even worse, most times it both
It is clearly incompetence and not greed. If they were competent enough to identify the problem, they would have entered into a very expensive maintenance agreement with kickbacks and not both, as greed would have resulted in them neglecting maintenance to save money, but the return on spending the money is higher.
 
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