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[Sinbad]

eish

 

[biometrics]

eish

Just sent an email to a inverter installer... screw this. I think this is going to go on for years to come, at least five years of regular blackouts.

 

[satanboy]

 

[satanboy]

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t.co

 

[Nicholas]

Sic transit gloria mundi.

 

[biometrics]

 

[satanboy]

 

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[Tribs]

 

[Nicholas]

How difficult is it to fix things that break down?

 

[biometrics]

How difficult is it to fix things that break down?

When some of it 40 years old and have been run hard, you can fix it but something else will break down soon.

 

[Nicholas]

When some of it 40 years old and have been run hard, you can fix it but something else will break down soon.

Ouch!
Ideally, you'd want to replace it, then?

 

[biometrics]

Ouch!
Ideally, you'd want to replace it, then?

Which is why Medupi and Kusile were/is built. But it has massive corruption, incompetent management, and serious design flaws. It will take years to complete and rectify the flaws. We're pretty much screwed for the next decade.

 

[Sinbad]

Which is why Medupi and Kusile were/is built. But it has massive corruption, incompetent management, and serious design flaws. It will take years to complete and rectify the flaws. We're pretty much screwed for the next decade.

At least one of the outages this week is a Kusile unit. Boiler tubes fucked again.

 

[biometrics]

At least one of the outages this week is a Kusile unit. Boiler tubes fucked again.

On a new power station. Go figure.

 

[biometrics]

 

[satanboy]

 

[Nicholas]

<envious>

 

[Nicholas]

Sabotage at Lethabo power station