Eskom stage 3 rolling blackouts

In Zim the load shedding got progressively more severe until finally the lights just stayed off.

We are now going on to phase 3.
 
Wraps are coming off my jenny tomorrow morning for sure. It hasn't had a good run since '08, but I'm sure it will make up for it this month.
 
**** you Eskom and **** you ANC. Thank you for playing so well into the African Country stereotype. Useless ****ers.
 
Fk you mother fkers

Jissis what *** times
 
By "build up" is this to do maintenance over the weekend or build things like coal and diesel reserves? If it is the latter it is a big concern.
 
Bern said:
By "build up" is this to do maintenance over the weekend or build things like coal and diesel reserves? If it is the latter it is a big concern.
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Pump water too. It's probably everything and more.
 
Bern said:
By "build up" is this to do maintenance over the weekend or build things like coal and diesel reserves? If it is the latter it is a big concern.
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Water for pumped-storage hydroelectricity and diesel for the open cycle turbines. Right now they are loadshedding heavily on weekends in an attempt to use that time to pump back water and refill the diesel tanks for the coming week. Thats why loadshedding hits on fridays...they just run out of options towards the end of the week.

Neither of those (pumped & diesel) where designed for running long hours...so those specific sources run out fast. Plus where talking wild amounts here...its not like you can just refill the diesel tanks at the local petrol station. People bitch about "how can you just run out of diesel...bad planning"...its hundreds of tanker trucks of diesel...thats not easy logistics-wise even with competent people. The bigger question is why are we in a position where we need such drastic band-aid solutions anyway...and we all know who is to blame for that.
 
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HavocXphere said:
People bitch about "how can you just run out of diesel...bad planning"...its hundreds of tanker trucks of diesel...thats not easy logistics-wise even with competent people. The bigger question is why are we in a position where we need such drastic band-aid solutions anyway...and we all know who is to blame for that.
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Ive seen allot more tougher logistics being handled without 'load shedding'. These are retards that dont know how to run a business.
This is what BEE means... it's not a racial thing, it's a prediction for the future of this country... black... in the dark
 
HavocXphere said:
Water for pumped-storage hydroelectricity and diesel for the open cycle turbines. Right now they are loadshedding heavily on weekends in an attempt to use that time to pump back water and refill the diesel tanks for the coming week. Thats why loadshedding hits on fridays...they just run out of options towards the end of the week.

Neither of those (pumped & diesel) where designed for running long hours...so those specific sources run out fast. Plus where talking wild amounts here...its not like you can just refill the diesel tanks at the local petrol station. People bitch about "how can you just run out of diesel...bad planning"...its hundreds of tanker trucks of diesel...thats not easy logistics-wise even with competent people. The bigger question is why are we in a position where we need such drastic band-aid solutions anyway...and we all know who is to blame for that.
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Ankerlig has storage tanks for 45 Million liters of Diesel. That is equivalent to 64 Saturn 5 moon rockets, or 200 Boeing 747's.
Or 600 000 Toyota Hilux Bakkies. :wtf:
 
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HavocXphere said:
Water for pumped-storage hydroelectricity and diesel for the open cycle turbines. Right now they are loadshedding heavily on weekends in an attempt to use that time to pump back water and refill the diesel tanks for the coming week. Thats why loadshedding hits on fridays...they just run out of options towards the end of the week.

Neither of those (pumped & diesel) where designed for running long hours...so those specific sources run out fast. Plus where talking wild amounts here...its not like you can just refill the diesel tanks at the local petrol station. People bitch about "how can you just run out of diesel...bad planning"...its hundreds of tanker trucks of diesel...thats not easy logistics-wise even with competent people. The bigger question is why are we in a position where we need such drastic band-aid solutions anyway...and we all know who is to blame for that.
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That is what worries me, this is pure fire fighting, so it is not really sorting out the problem of maintenance which means we defer a bigger problem to the near future (or now, we are already seeing a lot of device failure due to a lack of maintenance).
 
Compton_effect said:
Ankerlig has storage tanks for 45 Million liters of Diesel. That is equivalent to 64 Saturn 5 moon rockets, or 200 Boeing 747's.
Or 600 000 Toyota Hilux Bakkies. :wtf:
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And? If your Saturn rocket comparison is relevant then you'll have to explain said relevance.
 
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