poweralert....

[The_Librarian]

Eskom and ANC just digging their hole deeper and deeper.

FTFY

 

[DarkSt0rm]

FTFY

If anything actually changes in the next election I'll actually be shocked

 

[dabbler]

If anything actually changes in the next election I'll actually be shocked

Shocked? with?

 

[Harmonic]

Eskom warns it could implement higher levels of power cuts

Ailing power utility burnt through six million litres of diesel on Wednesday

www.dfa.co.za

Guess stage 7 is actually on the way next week

Can you even imagine what 6,000,000 litres of diesel looks like. I'm staring at my 20l jerry can and just trying to imagine

Edit: The answer is 300,000 twenty liter jerries.

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Wonder how much diesel they have left, gotta be less than 1/2 at this point

Pretty much doubt they will actually run out of diesel since PETRO SA is another SOE, so supplying diesel to Eskom enriches ANC cadres. They might be minimising diesel usage, but that's different to physically run out of it.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

Can you even imagine what 6,000,000 litres of diesel looks like. I'm staring at my 20l jerry can and just trying to imagine

Edit: The answer is 300,000 twenty liter jerries.

That's 144km worth of standard jerry cans laid end to end.

 

[Harmonic]

That's 144km worth of standard jerry cans laid end to end.

/insert mind-blown.gif

 

[Gothan]

If anything actually changes in the next election I'll actually be shocked

I’m hoping on a lot of voter apathy in the next election. Number of f people voting is getting less and less. Especially for the ruling party. The number of their fans aren’t less, they just don’t care anymore

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Shocked? with?

I sprayed my coffee everywhere hahaha

Can you even imagine what 6,000,000 litres of diesel looks like. I'm staring at my 20l jerry can and just trying to imagine

Edit: The answer is 300,000 twenty liter jerries.

I actually have a more technical question, how the hell do they move 6000000 litres of diesel without a very extensive pipeline network, or do we actually have one of those? I know transnet runs a pipeline but I was under the impression it was as dysfunctional as everything else?

 

[Priapus]

If anything actually changes in the next election I'll actually be shocked

Care to elaborate?

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

/insert mind-blown.gif

I believe that's almost a full container ship assuming a 2 million gallon ship is around 7½ million litres.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

I sprayed my coffee everywhere hahaha


I actually have a more technical question, how the hell do they move 6000000 litres of diesel without a very extensive pipeline network, or do we actually have one of those? I know transnet runs a pipeline but I was under the impression it was as dysfunctional as everything else?

I can't imagine it's anything but a pipeline. 6 million litres is something like 140 fuel trucks if I'm not mistaken.

 

[wingnut771]

Pretty much doubt they will actually run out of diesel since PETRO SA is another SOE, so supplying diesel to Eskom enriches ANC cadres. They might be minimising diesel usage, but that's different to physically run out of it.

Where does PETRO SA get the diesel from?

 

[richjdavies]

That's 144km worth of standard jerry cans laid end to end.

Or you know... 150 tanker trucks.

Or 1/10th this ship just passing Cape town now...

AEGEAN ANGEL, Crude Oil Tanker - Details and current position - IMO 9290323 - VesselFinder

Vessel AEGEAN ANGEL (IMO: 9290323, MMSI: 240213000) is a Crude Oil Tanker built in 2004 and currently sailing under the flag of Greece.

www.vesselfinder.com

Someone check my workings
81,000 tonnes capacity
81,000,000 kg
Diesel is 0.84 kg/L
So let's say 96,000,000L capacity...

 

[richjdavies]

Where does PETRO SA get the diesel from?

[https://businesstech.co.za/news/mot...wQFnoECAQQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0o_frQWE1Vl4hfJXUOYZyi[/URL]
It just imports it, doesn't refine it anymore.

 

[TheJman]

I honestly think they are going "short term pain for long term gain". Basically keep us at stage 6 for as long as is tolerable to do more advanced repairs, rather than putting a band aid on it. At least, I hope that's the case...

Used to think this as well... I'm a realistic optimist... but here, we have to be more realistic than optimistic.

We're unfortunately losing this battle at the moment, praying things change, some how. Just hoping the ANC takes a whipping in the next elections and we can finally get some form of accountability.

 

[TheJman]

Not much of a solution, but I imagine publicly executing the treasonous pigs would make us all feel a lot better about the situation

Oh this I can get behind... but I feel like we gotta go full gladiator here with it

 

[wingnut771]

[https://businesstech.co.za/news/mot...wQFnoECAQQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0o_frQWE1Vl4hfJXUOYZyi[/URL]
It just imports it, doesn't refine it anymore.

That's what I was getting at. Eskom use it faster than it can be imported. Great contract that.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1614041229423001600

Hmm...

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1614041229423001600

Hmm...

I feel like they're preparing for next week.
With those numbers they could have dropped us to 3 or 4. But they're also not running any OCGTs and keeping us on 6 over a weekend.