It just irks me that Oranjemund has been spared from all the power outages in SA at this stage, but when you drive around town, there are still idiots that don''t do there parts and have there yards all still lit up with Xmas lights..... nobody here seems interested i doing their bit to cutback.... The mine should appoint an inspector to go around and check up on these people.... on the other hand the mine still has all the Xmas lights blazing all over town at night also....
madashell
I say appoint ourself as an official monitor of unreasonable power use, and go round issuing fines, to sociably irresponsible inhabitants, that includes going round to the GM and placing the fine on his desk, for the town lights.
Go man someone needs to make a stand.
Do you pay for electricity nowadays? And how much?
Water and electricity is still free here... free housing to.
Thats the prob ... people should have started being charged for electricity and water years on a slowly increasing basis years ago ... People dont appreciate the value of something they get for nothing ... plain and simple ... I would love to know what the cash strapped Namdebs domestic monthly electricity bill is per month ... ???
I know and I'm not telling and it's even more with the new Eskom increase
Wonder what the savings for the mine would be if they had installed those solar geysers in town?
Michael ,, in a place like OM with lots of sun ,, a drop of 25 - 40 % off a domestic usage bill .. I installed mine ,, but have the backup timer for elecrical heating set generously so savings are in the region of 20 - 35 % .. fact is even on a semi sun day , water preheated to lets say 35 - 40 deg takes less energy to get to 60 deg ... on summer days the water exiting thats entirely heated by sun is almost scalding hot ...
Quote from: Michael Alexander on July 12, 2010, 05:50:54 AM
Wonder what the savings for the mine would be if they had installed those solar geysers in town?
And we do have lots of sun, Mike u should put it forward as a suggestion