'Quick hit' power plan for SA

TheRoDent

TheRoDent

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Ok seriously. Does the government have an IQ cap of 60!?
I can just hear the though processes going through their minds...

"Lets not cut the power to other countries that either do not pay for it or that do not have a huge impact on our economy.
I know! Lets cut the power to the single biggest source of income for our country! Yes! Thats brilliant! Kewl, so give me a 60% salary increase and a multi-million rand "performance" bonus! I'm of to the Bahamas!"
 
ANC ***** 1: "Shame - if we cut off Botswana, their mines will have no power."

ANC ***** 2: "I know! Let us shut our mines off, then we need not cut Botswana off."

ANC ***** 3: "Done! Lunch anyone? I only have R120K so I can only take 3 of you"
 
"We have discussed how quotas will be allocated, who will be exempt from the programme, what incentives and penalties will be in place, when it will start and what legislative enablers we need to have in place for the programme to work," Sonjica said.
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Discussion is one thing. Disclosure, debate and agreement is another.

To have an immediate saving of 8%, industrial users would have to use 10% less, commercial users 15%, hotels, resorts shopping malls and conference centres 20% less, large office buildings, government and municipalities 15% less, agriculture 5% less, and residences 10% less.
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These numbers dont make sense to me. I dont know the weightings of each sector, but the maths doesnt seem to add up.

The government also emphasised that it will not be cutting power supply to other countries in order to improve South Africa's supply.
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Why the hell not? Its all good saying no, but no without a reason is ridiculous.
 
DJStealth said:
These numbers dont make sense to me. I dont know the weightings of each sector, but the maths doesnt seem to add up.
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They make no sense at all, the only number below 8% is agriculture and the others are all significantly above that, I doubt agriculture can use that much power.
 
To have an immediate saving of 8%, industrial users would have to use 10% less, commercial users 15%, hotels, resorts shopping malls and conference centres 20% less, large office buildings, government and municipalities 15% less, agriculture 5% less, and residences 10% less.
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I also do not get that.
For that to "add up", agriculture would need to use way more than all the other sectors COMBINED.
Which, I am sure, it does not.
I will bet my 'nads and a bottle of hard tack on that*.





* On the million to one shot that I am wrong, I am not serious.
:D
 
Moederloos said:
I also do not get that.
For that to "add up", agriculture would need to use way more than all the other sectors COMBINED.
Which, I am sure, it does not.
I will bet my 'nads and a bottle of hard tack on that*.





* On the million to one shot that I am wrong, I am not serious.
:D
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On the off chance that your nads need chopping, you might regret giving up that bottle of hard tack :D
 
" restricting incandecent lamp manufacture " - South Africa no longer makes light bulbs, are the going to send people overseas to try and stop them there???
 
DragonLogos said:
" restricting incandecent lamp manufacture " - South Africa no longer makes light bulbs, are the going to send people overseas to try and stop them there???
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No, they are just going to hit a huge tax on them
 
The government also emphasised that it will not be cutting power supply to other countries in order to improve South Africa's supply.
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Seriously, they need to make up their mind. Firstly they blatantly denied that we were supplying power to other countries. And now they saying that they're not cutting power to other countries, insinuating that were were supplying power to them to begin with.

So which is it?
 
Alchemist said:
Seriously, they need to make up their mind. Firstly they blatantly denied that we were supplying power to other countries. And now they saying that they're not cutting power to other countries, insinuating that were were supplying power to them to begin with.

So which is it?
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Its the normal -
Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie ...... Lie
Until you cannot anymore
then "suck it up b1tches - we will do what we want anyways"
 
I am waiting for end Feb (6 weeks from now), for the guavamint to say:

"OK - all the mines can go back on - we are switching off corporate and residential users from 4am-10pm everyday for the next 6 weeks"
 
"A programme to get households to switch to LP gas will also be started with the view of saving a further 500MW."

Apparently gas burning produces a large amount of co2, 10x more than wood burning, can't find source tho- 'cos capped. It's on http://journeytoforever.org/ somewhere...
 
Threepwood said:
"A programme to get households to switch to LP gas will also be started with the view of saving a further 500MW."

Apparently gas burning produces a large amount of co2, 10x more than wood burning, can't find source tho- 'cos capped. It's on http://journeytoforever.org/ somewhere...
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Also - 500MW is not much, we have a gas shortage, and it would cost our household in the order of R20 000 to change our stove and oven. Our current system is custom fitted and of good quality. Who is going to foot the bill? Me? No bloody ways.
 
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