Category Archives: no electricity

Private Eye on shale gas

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2011

South Africa isn’t the only country to have potentially economy-changing amounts of shale gas underneath it. The UK has some too. According to the usually politically-left In The Back section of Private Eye magazine: Cuadrilla, the gas exploration company drilling for shale gas in Lancashire, has announced its discovery of 200 trillion cubic feet of gas – a [...]

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Germany’s electricity now comes from er… nuclear and coal

By 6000 | 6000 | July 14, 2011

Eina! After Angela Merkel’s short-sighted and silly plan of closing down Germany’s atomic power stations in a desperate attempt to prevent any more nuclear electoral disasters, it quickly appeared that Germany would run short of electricity. No matter, said Merkel – we’ll import our power from France while we decide what to do. That’s France, which has [...]

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Tell someone who cares…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 14, 2011

Incoming from [redacted], quetioning “Real?”. No. Not really real. But really old. Subject: ESKOM INCREASE – URGENT PETITION before 19th July ESKOM TARIFF INCREASE: Apparently it will be 45% increase each year for 3 years, totalling 135% over 3 years.  It has already been increased by about 100%. I don’t know about you but I certainly [...]

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No energy

By 6000 | 6000 | May 30, 2011

Ah, electricity. The elixir of the Gods. It remains a touchy subject here in SA, with the constant threats of load-shedding as we approach winter. (And believe me, we’ve been doing some serious approaching today.) At the heart of this is the fact that while we want to use lots of electricity, we don’t have [...]

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Fracking follow-up

By 6000 | 6000 | March 29, 2011

Arguing over whether people actually read stuff before commenting on it (they don’t) is so last week, and thus it’s time to add a couple more thoughts from my fracking post, which was ever so trendy (like Lewis Pugh was last week). Firstly, there were a couple (literally two) objections to my use of the [...]

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