TV warning planned on power cuts

At least the rest of the world can have a good chuckle. Why am I still here?
 
As long as the list of appliances dont include my PC I'm happy :p
 
hmmm, what about me I don't own a TV - can I just go on using my appliances like normal?! :D
 
Finally they using something about localised tv signals etc. What ever happen to local/provincial tv? Guess the people with illegal connections can just point an laugh :)
 
Firstly: Why did they report it to the BBC in London? I am sure this affects South Africa and therefor should be reported to places like SABC or the like? (Or don't they trust SABC :p )

Secondly: Eskom is the sole provider of electricity to South Africa, they are also an international company providing to other African states. So why do they have these kinds of problems? And why do they only have one nuclear power station? Is Eskom exporting electricity for free and then charging us for it? Since they are international they should only logically have the cash reserves to keep their electrical generation plants up to par with standards.
I have an uncle who is a contractor to eskom, he says that all the power stations he has gone to are all running at 100% (where just a few years ago they were at about 60% and serving all of SA with minimal problems) and some of them are even running backup turbines! :eek:
Yet we still get problems like these.

I wonder who had the bright idea to start telling us, 'look there is going to be a powercut, turn off your mains!'. We pay for our electricity and we expect service.
 
and back we go to the Municipalities and how they allocate their power.
Most days the set of streetlights starting outside our property and going up the road (about 5 or 6 lights in all) burn all day and night. We have repeatedly reported this to no avail. We cannot be the only consumers where this waste occurs and added together it must take a sizeable chunk of unnecessary usage. if the Municipalities would wake up and LEAD BY EXAMPLE the people might follow. and im sure u can leave on whatever appliances Eskom advise you to switch off if you are prepared to lose them in the surge that follows the switch on?

CacklinToad
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One would expect a country like SA with all the expertise at our disposal to be able to predict this sort of shortage and prepare well in advance for it. This is sad. So typically African indeed.
 
well, i suppose this is better than telling people, most of whom can't afford a telkom line anyway, to check out the latest outdated online eskom schedule or to phone the often unanswered 0860 numbers
 
NameOfBeast said:
Please sit quietly by candlelight and fill out your immigrant visa form.''
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Move to California?

South Africa is not the only country with an overloaded grid. Various first world countries have had load problems.
 
CacklinToad said:
and back we go to the Municipalities and how they allocate their power.
Most days the set of streetlights starting outside our property and going up the road (about 5 or 6 lights in all) burn all day and night. We have repeatedly reported this to no avail. We cannot be the only consumers where this waste occurs and added together it must take a sizeable chunk of unnecessary usage. if the Municipalities would wake up and LEAD BY EXAMPLE the people might follow. and im sure u can leave on whatever appliances Eskom advise you to switch off if you are prepared to lose them in the surge that follows the switch on?

CacklinToad
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Sherwood Community Policing Forum.Sector 3
Scourge of the Corrupt ;)
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Yes, and this is the case throughout many areas in Cape Town. Street lights on 24/7 and noboady apparently doing anything about it!
 
Peter7 said:
hmmm, what about me I don't own a TV - can I just go on using my appliances like normal?! :D
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I have one, but I rarely use it to watch broadcast TV. I use it watch things off DVD.

Radio warnings? Haven't used a radio in more than ten years.
 
antowan said:
One would expect a country like SA with all the expertise at our disposal to be able to predict this sort of shortage and prepare well in advance for it. This is sad. So typically African indeed.
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As I recall Eskom was predicting this many years ago, but no-one would listen. In the meantime the government twiddled its thumbs, not willing to make a decision one way or the other with regard to building the power stations we need.

Very reminiscent of the Cape Town municipality wailing about water shortages, but refusing to decide on which option to try as a solution.
 
Deiphos said:
And why do they only have one nuclear power station? Is Eskom exporting electricity for free and then charging us for it? Since they are international they should only logically have the cash reserves to keep their electrical generation plants up to par with standards.
I have an uncle who is a contractor to eskom, he says that all the power stations he has gone to are all running at 100% (where just a few years ago they were at about 60% and serving all of SA with minimal problems) and some of them are even running backup turbines! :eek:
Yet we still get problems like these.

I wonder who had the bright idea to start telling us, 'look there is going to be a powercut, turn off your mains!'. We pay for our electricity and we expect service.
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We only have one nuclear power station because the government has been dragging their feet on authorising the building of more. You can also blame overreaction to nuclear power from environmental nuts.

South Africa is now facing the problem faced by many other countries, that demand has increased faster than expected. But I also remember talk of possible future shortages ten years ago.

The problem with politicians is that for most their only goal is to stay in office. They don't want to have to take any real decisions where they might end up being wrong.
 
I've read a report that stated that if we only kept up on maintenance of the power lines and stations that we would have had enough power for everyone.

BUt maintenance has been toned down to a level of only repairing on total failure. This results in something which they call "power leakages". These power leakages are HUGE.

Someone with some knowledge on this matter correct me if I'm wrong.

:)
 
What is the real message?

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

How about just cutting the power to the TV transmitter? Everybody will then switch off their TV sets, saving a whole bunch of power (it is actually energy but that is a different story).
 
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