Category Archives: no electricity

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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Power cut

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2010

Just a quick quota photo effort from me this evening. We had a power cut at work this afternoon which left all of us playing catch up – due to a fault at the Koeberg Switching Station, apparently. Someone evidently switched it off.   Add to that the oppressive heat (43°C when I left work), [...]

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Problems in Zim, Problems in Sheffield

By 6000 | 6000 | April 22, 2008

Just when the poor people stuck just over the border (though admittedly a border a long, long way from me here) thought that bent elections, crooked politicians, ridiculous inflation, food shortages, violence and intimidation were the only minor issues they had to face upon getting up this morning, comes this. Yes, according to the BBC News [...]

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