poweralert stage 2.....

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Missed my 4-5am slot.
Pumped storage last week very low, coal now 21.5GW, nice and ready for the stress test:
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System hourly demand and available capacity - Eskom Data Portal

Hourly demand is compared against available capacity, to indicate the amount of surplus/shortfall there was. Available capacity must be matched with the total RSA contracted demand.
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Pumped storage generating hours, gas generation & manual load reduction - Eskom Data Portal

The graph below indicates how primary fuel consrained resources where utilized during the past 7 days. Pump storage Gen Unit Hours is the amount of hours that one unit at a pump storage station can generate based on the amount of water still available in the dams. These dams are required to be...
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So the maintenance started at 8:30, also I can't tweet anymore due to some snowflake saying I was racist for calling them out. Sigh
 
Lupus said:
So the maintenance started at 8:30, also I can't tweet anymore due to some snowflake saying I was racist for calling them out. Sigh
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Eskom will never be fixable as long as race is a thing and blackey gets offended when whitey gives out wisdom because they are not allowed to do that since apartheid ended.
 
wingnut771 said:
Eskom will never be fixable as long as race is a thing and blackey gets offended when whitey gives out wisdom because they are not allowed to do that since apartheid ended.
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It's not that whitey is giving out wisdom, it's that blackey can't ever be unwise..
 
We had a 30 seconds type power interruption just now. Hate that hate that hate that hate that hate that :mad:
 
wingnut771 said:
Missed my 4-5am slot.
Pumped storage last week very low, coal now 21.5GW, nice and ready for the stress test:
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System hourly demand and available capacity - Eskom Data Portal

Hourly demand is compared against available capacity, to indicate the amount of surplus/shortfall there was. Available capacity must be matched with the total RSA contracted demand.
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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Pumped storage generating hours, gas generation & manual load reduction - Eskom Data Portal

The graph below indicates how primary fuel consrained resources where utilized during the past 7 days. Pump storage Gen Unit Hours is the amount of hours that one unit at a pump storage station can generate based on the amount of water still available in the dams. These dams are required to be...
www.eskom.co.za www.eskom.co.za
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Looking at last nights numbers it dropped a bit again, today's predictions aren't looking good either.
 
wingnut771 said:
They do last if you use them for 30 seconds.
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We had UPS's for decades at home, hardly ever lasted longer than 18 - 24 months, regardless. That's not cost effective here.

Never used them at all externally, including at my main job even though I was the tech manager - our Woodmead office park supplied PC-clean (red 220V plugs) uninterrupted power :cool:

I haven't even replaced my laptop battery, would only really use that for the forum.... I'm hooked enough, no thanks
 
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