How are things looking in the land of “nationalize the mines, banks and monopoly industry” these days? Not so good, apparently. But if it’s any consolation for South Africans, Canada’s Liberal government is actively seeking to push us in the direction of “national blackout” as well.
Yelland said many people, including his family in Craighall Park, are experiencing 12 hours of load-shedding daily.
“If you look at the NRS048-9 specifications, they are consistent with stage 8 load-shedding. It is not stage 6 load-shedding,” Yelland said.
Jordaan added that Eskom’s latest performance and power data confirmed that Black Friday, which took place on 24 November, almost became “national blackout Friday”.
South Africa knows how to take from the white man, little else.. As the white man disappears so will South Africa..
The lights, the power is just hard to ignore.. Sitting in the dark with your ill begotten gains tends to do that..
Its not even a race thing.. Thievery in the name of?.. Justice in the name of?.. None of it has anything to do with keeping the lights on.. So.. Sit in the dark, freeze in the winter.. Failure doesn’t care about your blowhard politics..
Blackout Fridays. In South Africa. Did I miss the racist training memo?
Someday the Blackout will not end.
When you run a unit too hard and too long?
Things break that shouldn’t. Tubes erode, pumps lose pressure and capacity, valves leak by, turbine blades crack, electronics fail, and things just start randomly failing. You skip preventative maintenance because everyone is constantly repairing stuff that is completely broken, and not finding the little things that suddenly become big things, like wiped bearings and burnt out motors, or valves spewing steam or water through blown out packing.
Suddenly a startup turns into a shutdown, and there are not enough skilled workers, parts, and equipment left to actually repair what’s broken.
Good luck!
Fighting apartheid or saving the earth from carbon.. Same same.. Your? government off in the weeds doing BS for the sake of the politics of it all.. When I say same same, I mean it..
Picture this.. A bunch of people push their way into the room and they know f@#$ all about anything.. But they have a agenda that has nothing to do with the job at hand.. Justice or cow farts or whatever..
The point being .. Your job was to make money or keep the lights on.. But now its drop the bass on the politics of the day.. Fun stuff if your living in mom and dads basement.. A disaster if its South Africa..
Bottom line.. I don’t care if the Devil himself keeps the light on.. White, black or green.. Do your f@#$ing job.. Beyond that, fighting over the details is a luxury..
“But if it’s any consolation for South Africans, Canada’s Liberal government is actively seeking to push us in the direction of “national blackout” as well.”
Try not to exaggerate. The provinces control electricity system development, not the federal government. Saskatchewan and Alberta are doing a fine job telling the Libs-Dips to FOAD.