Outrageous ideas to stop load shedding in South Africa

[P924]

Voltage tells you nothing about the capacity of the battery.

Voltage gives you just about as much info about the capacity of the battery as amp-hours does. Both are useless without knowing the other. (in terms of knowing the capacity)

 

[Deckert]

What is a 600 watt battery? wtf? :wtf:[/QUOT

Thank you. I was about to ask the same thing. Batteries are measured in Amp Hours.

Agreed. Or Watt-hours, but definitely not just "Watts".

Eg. 64 watt hours / 14.7 volts nominal = ~4.3 amp hours

--deckert

 

[konfab]

After much thought on this, I have come up with an actual outrageous solution:

We Nuke Bloemfontein.

 

[spiff]

wonder if I can turn my 30kl salt water pool into a battery?

 

[konfab]

wonder if I can turn my 30kl salt water pool into a battery?

Depends how high you are willing to pump the water.

 

[Dan C]

What is a 600 watt battery? wtf? :wtf:

hahaha big fail.

 

[CeeBee]

no need for outrageous ideas... it is really simple in fact.... kick off the non-paying freeloaders and illegal connections
they don't even have to go search for them, they know exactly where they are.
tough times call for tough measures

 

[heartbroken]

After much thought on this, I have come up with an actual outrageous solution:

We Nuke Bloemfontein.

Whaaaat? What did our dusty plaasdorp ever do to you?

Also we had our own powerstation but our masters mothballed it.

 

[konfab]

Whaaaat? What did our dusty plaasdorp ever do to you?

Speeding cameras on the N1

 

[heartbroken]

Speeding cameras on the N1

Lol, I usually try and help wary travellers out by waving and pointing at the speed cameras, but everyone from GP seems in sich a hurry they don't bother with my warnings.

/shrugs

 

[itareanlnotani]

I have some outrageous idea's to stop loadshedding that I'll outline below.

- Maintenance
- Investment in infrastructure
- Building of new plants.

I know, I'm completely crazy..

 

[HavocXphere]

The pumped hydro-storage using the mines is frankly a bloody brilliant idea.

No its not.

mine that is 2.5km deep, with 100 metres of water at the bottom.

versus say Ingula pumped storage:

22,400,000 m3

Even if you fill the entire shaft with water top to bottom its nowhere near enough to matter. Plus I'd imagine it'll come with unique technical challenges.

 

[czc]

No its not.


versus say Ingula pumped storage:


Even if you fill the entire shaft with water top to bottom its nowhere near enough to matter. Plus I'd imagine it'll come with unique technical challenges.

I thought the point of pumped storage was pumping the water up when demand is low and then using gravity to generate electricity during peak periods.

You'd need to use energy to pump water out of the mine shaft.

 

[HavocXphere]

I thought the point of pumped storage was pumping the water up when demand is low and then using gravity to generate electricity during peak periods.

You'd need to use energy to pump water out of the mine shaft.

Yup. Two problems, first where are you going to put the water once you pumped it up (remember middle of jhb), and second its a question of scale as I said...you need a big fkin dam to make it worthwhile & mines are comparatively tiny (remember they try to make the tunnels as small as possible).