wingnut771
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Lol, what a useless stat then. Eskom goes down to one 600MW generator and boasts 100% EAF.
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Nope that's not how it works, it's at 48 to 49% of the time due to the outages that Koeberg has had.
Nom Chompsky
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I see from this very old tweet that Kusile Unit 5 will be synchronised in July (+700MW) which is actually pretty good news when we are in desperate times...
This will help @Priapus' friendly bet with @wingnut771 about not going beyond Stage 6 this winter.
This will help @Priapus' friendly bet with @wingnut771 about not going beyond Stage 6 this winter.
That's good to know, I'm looking forward to it.
But they'll fight to keep gravy going.
Of course, they'll probably do what the NP government did just before it was booted out and steal everything that isn't nailed down and leave the coffers dry.
And having a single majority party in control is an anomaly; we're setup for coalition governments and should have been that way all along.
We will never have a single major party in control again in SA; coalitions for the foreseeable future.
There are useful stats from Eskom?
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Exactly why I say people touting it as if its some magical meaning.
'The availability factor of a power plant is the amount of time that it is able to produce electricity over a certain period, divided by the amount of the time in the period. Occasions where only partial capacity is available may or may not be deducted. Where they are deducted, the metric is titled equivalent availability factor (EAF). The availability factor should not be confused with the capacity factor. The capacity factor for a given period can never exceed the availability factor for the same period. The difference arises when the plant is run at less than full capacity, in which case the capacity factor is less than the availability factor.'
Availability factor - Wikipedia
So it looks like they might be deducting it
So, since things have some how magically gotten better and we're not been told the grid is about to explode... I might not leave my house in pure "backup mode" whilst I am away for three week in July s I was planning to - and just leave the solar do its thing.
Thanks Eskom.. for fixing whatever it is you fixed or stopped breaking stuff. So nice of you.
Thanks Eskom.. for fixing whatever it is you fixed or stopped breaking stuff. So nice of you.
As much as we need coalitions now, hope you are wrong, they don't have a great track record either. We need some other party with half a decent agenda to get off their butt.
Nom Chompsky
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Priapus is right though - the standard in European nations with a PR system is coalitions. The winning party usually achieves between 25 - 35% of the vote. Long gone are the days that any party can grab the attention of 50% + 1 in Europe.
Exactly why I say people touting it as if its some magical meaning.
'The availability factor of a power plant is the amount of time that it is able to produce electricity over a certain period, divided by the amount of the time in the period. Occasions where only partial capacity is available may or may not be deducted. Where they are deducted, the metric is titled equivalent availability factor (EAF). The availability factor should not be confused with the capacity factor. The capacity factor for a given period can never exceed the availability factor for the same period. The difference arises when the plant is run at less than full capacity, in which case the capacity factor is less than the availability factor.'
Availability factor - Wikipedia
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So it looks like they might be deducting it
ANC are supposed to understand all that??
I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar I am right on this. All the data points towards it and there has been extensive analysis around the voting / election trends.
ANC has fallen so much that it simply won't get a majority and opposition parties have not offered a convincing alternative to really challenge the ANC for the top spot. Just as we have in Germany with their coalitions - we will have the same here, going forward.
Best case for us next year is ANC/DA coalition; hate the idea or love it - but it's better than the alternative.
The Europeans have this model for ages now - it's just how PR systems work. We should never have had a majority party in control.
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You can polish a turd but at the end of the day it is still a turd... Don't count your chickens before they hatch we can go from ok to OH **** IT'S GONNA BLOW in 3.2 seconds
And South Africa is maturing in this direction now. We took our time, but we're at that point now.
Here we've got a majority that's based on old (fading) loyalties, after which we'll be left with massive amounts of minorities only (if the Zulus don't get self-organised) so agree. But this isn't Europe, still hopeful that single minded sensible politics is slightly possible.
Look at Italy, long term coalition systems aren't a good idea either. Africa can only make it worse
No argument with this
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My friend came back from Italy about a month ago, her, her dog and her EU passport booked their tickets back to Italy this morning and its a one way flight.
She said its cheaper in Italy than here, she got an apartment with 24/7 power, gas, internet and water for the same price as a 1 bedroom 1 bath in CT (yea CT is more expensive) but she's choosing the safe life over Africa...
I asked if i could come to but uh no passport
Funny that you bring up loyalties as to the reason the ANC stays in power. Data says otherwise. People like to say the average ANC voter is stupid; however Most of them vote based on their living conditions. We saw that after '94 the ANC voter share improved a lot - and arguably so, so did their living conditions. Life in SA had gotten better for many people post '94.
However, since the Zuma era, life has gotten far worse and as that has happened, so has the ANC voter share started to drop off. Remember, once upon a time, the ANC had a 2/3 majority in this country. Now we are wondering if they'll even make 50%.
All attributed to people not voting for them because their lives have gotten substantially worse and not voting for the other parties because they are not convincing enough to the average ANC voter.
A coalition national government is coming - there is no stopping that.
There's lots of theories and published "facts" on the subject. One that made most sense to me, and others here, was that it had been determined that most ANC votes are due to bullying by (paid off?) village chiefs and the like of the voters, and particularly in KZN.
And the cause of the change to anti-ANC? Who knows, but there's only so much abuse people will put up with, even under threat, so I suspect we're seeing a domino effect.
Anything is better than here, just about. But it's not about that, it's about the mess Italy is in compared to less coalated (is that a word?) 1st world countries.My friend came back from Italy about a month ago, her, her dog and her EU passport booked their tickets back to Italy this morning and its a one way flight.
She said its cheaper in Italy than here, she got an apartment with 24/7 power, gas, internet and water for the same price as a 1 bedroom 1 bath in CT (yea CT is more expensive) but she's choosing the safe life over Africa...
I asked if i could come to but uh no passport
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