power stations under attack?

[ady]

I kinda like the anarchy.

I kinda like it to.

We get away with a lot here, that would just not fly in a first world nanny state.

[Spliffcat]

What I heard was that the transformer oil is not changed then the carbon builds up and arcs across the metal.
Boooooooom.
Normal cadre high standards of doing nothing.

[MSW2]

What I heard was that the transformer oil is not changed then the carbon builds up and arcs across the metal.
Boooooooom.
Normal cadre high standards of doing nothing.

Oil which can be tested every year or six months to tell you well in advance about transformers wanting to pop.

[Vaal]

What I heard was that the transformer oil is not changed then the carbon builds up and arcs across the metal.
Boooooooom.
Normal cadre high standards of doing nothing.

X former oil pulls moisture out of the air and that is why it needs to be "de-hidrated" when it goes over a certain ppm. And a lot of the x formers trips due to overload and the bucholz relay trips due to water. Bridge it out is a lot easier than fixing the root cause. Viva the c-anc-er.

[Dick]

Ja, if 13 years of more or less organised power blackouts in tandem with massive price increases hasn't convinced you of the fact that the ANC and it's deployees are incapable of running first world infrastructure then the inevitable collapse of the water supply should do it.

I've been reading this thread with a sense of "yeah, we too have been watching the decline with a sort of helpless inevitability." As there is not the remotest chance of changing things at the polls, some of us in the Western Cape are working towards what we see as the only way out of it, and are confident that we will achieve it.

[Gleock]

Everyone here has always punted putting their cash into metals, this is the poor peoples way of doing it.

Anyway, cable is stolen from the Eskom depot in my area on an almost nightly basis, big shoot out when armed guards respond, ambushed the guards and stole firearms during one of the incidents a few days ago.
Luckily its from the storage yard, so no power disruptions yet.

[Luker]

Who buys all these kilometers of stolen cables ? Once bought where does it go to ?

[414gates]

The power generation infrastructure has been under attack for decades by corrupt politicians.

[BBT]

Who buys all these kilometers of stolen cables ? Once bought where does it go to ?

Scrap yards and then exported to china

[dammitgriff]

Copper is trading at $4.60 a pound on the spot market according to Kitco.com.