Powerships

BandwidthAddict said:
Cost. South Africa's economy is dying. Money is running out.
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If they can spend billions on diesel then they can afford this. If anything I'd argue spending money on this is money well spent.

Don't think SA "economy is dying" either...it is in for a rough ride though.
 
HavocXphere said:
If they can spend billions on diesel then they can afford this
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Strictly speaking it's pretty much the same thing.

These are for when your generators go out and you DON'T have enough backup generating capacity (e.g. Japan after Fukashima). Fortunately Eskom has enough backup generators to keep the grid running, just not enough money to keep them filled up!
 
500MW powerships?

in 12 months?

Yeah, call me skeptical of that one considering none of their ships breach the 220MW number yet.

We would need multiple ships to replace even a single one of the OCGT installations we have.
 
ToxicBunny said:
500MW powerships?

in 12 months?

Yeah, call me skeptical of that one considering none of their ships breach the 220MW number yet.

We would need multiple ships to replace even a single one of the OCGT installations we have.
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Of course. The power will be available much sooner than an OCGT built via African Time.
 
HavocXphere said:
Of course. The power will be available much sooner than an OCGT built via African Time.
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For extra capacity, yes without a doubt,

but to replace the current OCGT's, I don't see this being more cost effective.
 
We actually had a powership/barge docked at Cape Town after the infamous 2006 Koeberg "loose bolt" incident. The infrastructure created to allow the ship to contribute to the grid still exists as far as I'm aware.
 
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