Kusile pollution concerns

Jan said:
This also directly impacts human life, leaving Eskom and South Africa to deal with a version of the trolley problem. Down one path, you endanger thousands; down the other, millions.
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Liez. The rails got stolen a long time ago
 
Light L said:
I work there I can tell you that the emissions are way lesser than what we as people working there expected, with some technical modifications done to fight the emissions even in the absence of FGD we're operating far below the exemption we we were given, I'm actually shocked.

Consider that Emalahleni in itself is an area full of mines blasting almost every day invoking alot dust, I personally feel that it is very unfair to blame eskom entirely for people in the surrounding areas getting sick.
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Well I hope it stays that way, I don't think you should get sick just because they can't maintain the air quality.
 
Ahh yes, sadly the evils of maximising for the greater good - the death of a hundreds or even deaths in a 100 years is worth providing more economic benefit to millions now. It justifies most economic decisions, and why Governments can expropriate land to build highways etc.

The protest, local population should keep protesting too, and SA as a whole for lower pollutants, then at least they should be able to engineer the purification of the air pollutants, since it is just a financial cost, not an engineering impossibility.
 
This also directly impacts human life, leaving Eskom and South Africa to deal with a version of the trolley problem. Down one path, you endanger thousands; down the other, millions.
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Probably the best analogy I've seen. And the same is applicable to the rest of the coal fleet...
 
G.A.S said:
Probably the best analogy I've seen. And the same is applicable to the rest of the coal fleet...
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catdog said:
Be careful the solar community is rattling their pitchforks at you. HOW DARE YOU SAY renewables are a FARCE!!! hahahahaha LOL ****ing idiots.
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When you have run out of facts it's always easier to resort to insults. LOL ***ing tool.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
And they still don't know what to do with the toxic waste they produce, but that is a problem to be solved in the future sometime.
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It wouldn't be toxic waste, it would be radioactive. Secondly they are handling it as we speak, it's not like they don't know what to do with it. It's being stored safely and probably far better than anything produced by other power sources
 
Lupus said:
It wouldn't be toxic waste, it would be radioactive. Secondly they are handling it as we speak, it's not like they don't know what to do with it. It's being stored safely and probably far better than anything produced by other power sources
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Yeah, then you have a nice earthquake or tsunami, and we have radioactive pollution all over paradise - lekker prospect.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Yeah, then you have a nice earthquake or tsunami, and we have radioactive pollution all over paradise - lekker prospect.
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The containment drums can withstand middle strikes, trains, planes and quite a few things they've thrown at them... This isn't the Simpsons they aren't stored in yellow barrels with green Goo
 
Lupus said:
The containment drums can withstand middle strikes, trains, planes and quite a few things they've thrown at them... This isn't the Simpsons they aren't stored in yellow barrels with green Goo
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They might be good, may have made a good, effort to see that they are very tough. But they cannot guarantee that they are indestructable, only that they have made a best effort solution. The same as youf internet service provider does. Between nature, [ volcano ? ] and human stupidity, all bets are off.
 
Lupus said:
It wouldn't be toxic waste, it would be radioactive. Secondly they are handling it as we speak, it's not like they don't know what to do with it. It's being stored safely and probably far better than anything produced by other power sources
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Storing something that is radioactive for 100 000 years onsite in a container that only lasts a few hundred years is not a solution.
 
Lupus said:
The containment drums can withstand middle strikes, trains, planes and quite a few things they've thrown at them... This isn't the Simpsons they aren't stored in yellow barrels with green Goo
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Can they survive 100 000 years?
 
catdog said:
They shorten the smoke stacks because the big one is ****ed. Because they are shorter and will probably not be maintained very well all that **** is dedicated to our lungs. The shot of it is they will produce power but the people working there are going to die horribly.
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Not really my lungs. Kusile is in Mpumalanga. They voted ANC. Let them deal with the consequences of that.
 
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