Switch it off: Eskom

[Bismuth]

We've done what we can to reduce usage, so f-off Eskom, sort your sh@t out, geez!

B

 

[Chris.Geerdts]

I would not say that Botswana is incompetent and corrupt. Not by a LONG shot.

Agreed. Botswana does not deserve those labels, although I would like to know what led to Botswana having all 4 of their boiler units non-operational at the same time.

We are exporting 100 - 300 MW of power to Botswana, which could easily lead to Eskom introducing load shedding slightly earlier than would have been the case. However the alternative of having a neighbouring country, and trading partner crippled seems worse.

 

[Arthur]

One smelter uses more than that whole country - two smelters (Hillside and Mozal) use 9% of SA's peak load, or about 1.5 GW each

Just this past week I spoke to someone at Mozal. We also chatted about power, and he said 100% of Mozal's juice comes from Cahora Bassa, routed through SA.

 

[Equalizer]

So whilst there are problems like these do the neighboring countries feeding off SA also suffer or we keep those lines running at full capacity no matter what? Me thinks the contracts say we would rather have a total blackout in SA before the neighbors start to feel the pinch

The government is generating an income which feeds their personal pockets from providing power to neighbouring countries. These countries will be supplied with power at full capacity. Heaven forbid ANC officials loose their corrupted sideline income!!

 

[Polymathic]

I've done a fair chunk already to make my house more efficient..

Eskom can go and fsck themselves as far as I'm concerned. It makes no difference WHAT we as consumers do, they will still hike the prices and subject us to rolling blackouts.

you are the reason why they keep raising electricity prices

 

[FiestaST]

I've managed to bring my household electricity down to R300 a month with two adults and a toddler, how much more do they want me to bring it down?

Two adults and a toddler here as well & we go through about R200 to R250 pm.

 

[Eskomisaloser]

My username stands... strongly

 

[Sonic2k]

Hi Eskom... how about you F**K OFF! Take your loadshedding and shove it up your arse!
Just for that I am now running both my airconditioners... BITE ME!!!

Take your BS stories of collapsed silos/bolts in rotors/wet coal/etc and go tell the care bears!

 

[Wasabee!]

What happened to the project of free geyser timers?

I guess the budget when to Thando and friends' bonuses...

 

[dunkyd]

Heaven forbid someone should say put whites back in charge

 

[bwana]

Hi Eskom... how about you F**K OFF! Take your loadshedding and shove it up your arse!
Just for that I am now running both my airconditioners... BITE ME!!!

Yeah, that will teach them…

Take your BS stories of collapsed silos/bolts in rotors/wet coal/etc and go tell the care bears!

Not a story.

 

[froot]

Heaven forbid someone should say put whites back in charge

What does race have to do with it?
Race has buggerall to do with competency.

 

[MrGray]

there can really only be one valid reason for having them burn in the day; stupid idiots in charge, and k@k management.

Actually, there is one valid reason to leave street lights on. In certain high risk areas in Cape Town I know for a fact that they are deliberately left on to inhibit cable theft as it makes it harder to steal them when they are powered.

 

[2026]

Actually, there is one valid reason to leave street lights on. In certain high risk areas in Cape Town I know for a fact that they are deliberately left on to inhibit cable theft as it makes it harder to steal them when they are powered.

Load shedding just in time for some xmas 'shopping' in cape town then?

 

[Inevitability]

What happened to the project of free geyser timers?
I guess the budget when to Thando and friends' bonuses...

Have to admit... I did get one!
But then I also have to admit... one of the technicians doing the installations was my neighbour

 

[Packer]

Alternative energy has to be the way to go, even for the man on the street, and especially for the working class who can just about afford the high initial cost if they budget for it properly.
I'm gonna start putting some thought and effort into maximising my home's power efficiency and then start looking into solar. From my basic calculations, my bill for 2015 will probably hit R20k.

I'm hoping that Lockheed-Martin's claims of a fusion power breakthrough are true.

 

[f2wohf]

I'm hoping that Lockheed-Martin's claims of a fusion power breakthrough are true.

You really want to have Eskom touching anything related to nuclear ? :wtf:

I'm pretty sure they are able to screw up fusion which is supposed to be harmless.

 

[Packer]

You really want to have Eskom touching anything related to nuclear ? :wtf:

I'm pretty sure they are able to screw up fusion which is supposed to be harmless.

The way I see it is that the Eskom idiots are already looking at FISSION nuclear generation (from Russia). Fusion is a lot safer and will not cause the same damage when the inevitable failures occur and the ‘damage crews’ are blundering around incompetently. It has the promise of being much cleaner, safer, smaller and cheaper.

As well, it’s simply a source of heat so dirty fossil fuel sources of heat can be discarded and substituted for fusion – use the same boilers and infrastructure of existing power stations. No difference to the consumer except your electricity bill goes down.

 

[Inevitability]

No difference to the consumer, except politicians will suddenly be able to afford better cars

Fixed

 

[f2wohf]

The way I see it is that the Eskom idiots are already looking at FISSION nuclear generation (from Russia). Fusion is a lot safer and will not cause the same damage when the inevitable failures occur and the ‘damage crews’ are blundering around incompetently. It has the promise of being much cleaner, safer, smaller and cheaper.

As well, it’s simply a source of heat so dirty fossil fuel sources of heat can be discarded and substituted for fusion – use the same boilers and infrastructure of existing power stations. No difference to the consumer except your electricity bill goes down.

I guess only our kids will see it in SA anyway !

The same manufacturer (Lockheed) admits that the design of this smaller reactor is still at a very early stage, and to date no prototype has been built, although, according to the researchers behind this project, all the physics involved has already been proved. No technical detail of the new design has been published or revealed, bringing some skepticism about the real feasibility of such a reactor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion