dualmeister
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Have they tried switching it off and on again?
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Koeberg unit 1 synchronisation delayed again
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wingnut771
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They broke the switch.
TheChamp
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Or it could just be MyBb tripping over themselves once again trying to explain technical things, it has happened plenty of times before.
wingnut771
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or it could be eskom, it has happened plenty times before.
TheChamp
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There is no direct quote there, did you notice? When has Eskom given such a technically incoherent statement before? Give me a couple examples.
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Switch was stolen.
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The only one tripping is that Minister of Eishlektrishitty. He is on some serious stuff.
porchrat
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I tend to agree. Most likely a misunderstanding by the journalist. It is bound to happen every now and then with technical articles.
porchrat
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Wrong. Eskom isn't holding any balls successfully at the moment.
Eskom right now
As @TheChamp and I discovered last night, there isn't a single metric this year that Eskom has managed to improve upon. It's all downhill so far.
If you perhaps have a gif of this woman unconscious on the floor while balls are being thrown at her that's probably more accurate.
Bit like the phantom "bolt"? Highly technical that was, technical rubbish that is.
porchrat
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It's a well understood problem with journalism that they often struggle with accurately conveying the words of technical people.
Science journalism has countless examples of the problem.
My understanding is that the bolt thing wasn't the journalists' fault. They were simply repeating what officials told them. The officials were wrong there.
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Yup,there was no bolt
Koeberg: It wasn't the bolt | Business
It was not, after all, the much-maligned bolt in the generator of Koeberg's unit one that plunged the Western Cape into darkness.
www.news24.com
porchrat
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I agree there was no bolt. My point is the journalists were told there was one by the officials. It wasn't like they misinterpreted something technical being explained to them.Yup,there was no bolt
Just like the cake was a lieKoeberg: It wasn't the bolt | Business
It was not, after all, the much-maligned bolt in the generator of Koeberg's unit one that plunged the Western Cape into darkness.
It's a different scenario.
wingnut771
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So in other words there was no mistake they were just lied to.
porchrat
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Yea, the fault lay with the Eskom folks doing the telling in that instance, not the journalists for misinterpreting. They didn't misinterpret.
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Thats a good idea, keep chickens on hand for instant KFC
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5 minutes? Not great, not terrible...Haaibo! I live 5 minutes drive away from that 10000 roentgen catastrophe!
wingnut771
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All I'm saying is that probably the same thing has happened again in this instance, the journalists have repeated verbatim what Eskom told them.