How will SA keep the lights on?

Where should SA focus their efforts?

  • Renewables (wind/solar/hydro)

    Votes: 128 49.0%

  • Nuclear

    Votes: 49 18.8%

  • Fossil fuels

    Votes: 14 5.4%

  • A combination of the above

    Votes: 70 26.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 45 17.2%
  • Total voters
    261
Other: they will decolonize lights and replace them with campfires

we'll have a dedicated team of street light, lighters who walk up and down with their fire-starting rubbing sticks to light a street campfire every 20 meters or so to keep the street well lit
 
If you selected anything but "a combination of the above" you're out of your mind.

Secondly generation is not the be-all and end-all of rectifying the situation. Access to transmission and local distribution grids is key.
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
Other: they will decolonize lights and replace them with campfires

we'll have a dedicated team of street light, lighters who walk up and down with their fire-starting rubbing sticks to light a street campfire every 20 meters or so to keep the street well lit
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This will only be allowed if they pay their "grid backup" levee or have BEE cred.
 
Toxxyc said:
Those are two different questions.

Q: Where should SA focus their efforts?
A: To get the damn ANC out of there.

Q: How will SA keep the lights on?
A: They won't. Not at this pace.
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Sad but utterly true.
 
Here is an idea, why dont they replace all the street lights with LED bulbs, will save them a ton of MW's.
 
Iwojima said:
If you selected anything but "a combination of the above" you're out of your mind
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eh? o_O

the question is "how will SA keep the lights on", not "what is the most sensible way for SA to keep the lights on"

do you honestly expect the ANC to make a rational choice and do something in the most sensible fashion?!? no, the choice they will make will be the most illogical, irrational tripe you can imagine
 
Any option that includes ANC is incorrect. So none of these are options as long as we have to bend to ANC rules. SA will not keep the lights on.
 
I voted Other bcs this is not a matter of just those few choices but more of a mindset thing with the corruption of the SOE's including Eskom. No amount of talk and turn-around strategy is going to help resolve this type of thing.
 
They need to hire Frikkie who will let outside companies install solar
 
The best option in my mind would be very large storage solutions to allow 3rd party producers to feed into the network, even in a sporadic manner, and so mitigate peak demand as well as less disruptive maintenance of Eskom's existing assets.

But yah... I don't see anything touched by the ANC to any degree really being successful, nor completely above board. SA is economically in dire straits. We REALLY need BOTH effective and fiscally prudent/efficient solutions. And I see some mention of the vaunted "Free Market" here. I'm sorry. But the only way to keep things above board is an efficiently regulated market. As they do in Europe. What is tenderpreneurism if not an extreme of a free market (albeit with reserved participation for a select group)? To start with you need to regulate politician participation in industry and commerce. At the very least. Furthermore a Free Market has not provision for dealing with monopolies. Oh, the romantic notion is that in a free market the little guy can compete with the big players. In reality the little guy wakes up with concrete shoes. While the authorities do nothing, because they get a cut, or are majority shareholders.

I really find the notion of a purely Free Market as naïve as a purely Socialist market.
 
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Every ANC politician is desperate to keep their hands on the neva empty purse.
The Gupta uranium mine in collaboration with the Zuma Russian nuclear deal showed how far the politicians will go to be rich beyond comprehension.
Shoot them all ....
 
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