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Its the only thing paying the bills for some people, creating more jobs and keeping the lights on at the moment.
Is it going to go away anytime soon, I doublt it, or should I say I hope it doesnt go away because I have invested a lot of money and time into renewables and plan to ramp up the investment into the greener way of doing things.
I am in discussion with someone at the moment to take it a lot more serious, looking at larger scale projects.
Comments are my opinion, unless regulations are attached to support the comment. This is social media, not a court room.
Great video to remind people this ain't simple. However, if you don't plant the tree today, it won't be there to provide fruit and shade at some point in the future.
Forty years ago (or thereabouts), the comment that every home would have a computer appeared an impossible dream.
Where are we today?
You have to start.
You have to keep pushing.
Bit by bit, you'll make progress.
I have attached a short video which covers the green hypocrisy of the west.
Colyn Serfontein only has 2700 subscribers, but in my opinion is spot on regarding the above.
I have been following him from day 1 on his channel and should you be interested in wanting to know what's REALLY happening
in the Ukraine, then Colyn's your man.
WARNING: He calls a spade a spade and there's a bit of strong language.
When I hear news of higher stages of load shedding, I smile and think, man It was worth the time wasted doing research into solar.
The part I dont enjoy is the calls from people who dont have the cash or the resourses splash out hundreds of thousands of rand to install a solution.
People wonder why every man , his dog, cat and uncle is now installing solar, nobody really cares about you installation, its money for jam. People have been forced into this situation and not much else going on other than solar right now.
Its affecting people businesses, people jobs and people safety and security.
It has created an oportunity for criminals and all the others dirty dealing going on in the solar industry. The fat cats are just getting fatter
Right now nobody cares about the "greeny", it more about survival.
Just like back in 2008, when load shedding started, we saw the writing on the wall and made hay while the sun was shinning.
A lot of people, lost a lot of money back when they decided to tell everyone load shedding was done. Millions of rands worth of generators sat in the port for months, which turned a quick buck into slow drawn out investment.
This time the smart people are making you pay upfront, just in case they decide to stop load shedding tomorow.
My only concern right now is that the suppliers are sitting on millions/billions, if any of them go bust a lot of people are going to loose a lot of money again.
I have doubt about the shortages of materials, I wonder if it is not a way to control the prices.
Susnsynk suppliers for example, will tell you there is no stock so you have to pay up front, yet Deye/sunsynk are supplying the UK and expanded to Australia, you have to give Sunsynk supplier credit for smart business practice, they have the money in the bank before they even order the product, tell me that isnt smart business sense. If you buying solar panels they have the money in the bank already and take 3-4 month to supply the goods.
Bend over, hold your ankles and take it as it comes, take that loan and get yourslef into more debt, it arent gonna get any better.
Just when you thought you have been shafted enough, the SSEG registration are going to start for many, that's going to be another R15000.00 you gonna need to find to pay the contractor, the engineer. Just when you thought it couldnt get any worse, wait till the council meter replacements start, the levies and other tarriffs they going to add.
Sorry it doesn't stop there, if you thought you were one of the clever ones who has decided not to register your SSEG, and enjoying the better ROI, I have some reallty bad news for you. The smart people who have registered would only be paying for the engineer, the constractor and the replacement meter.
If your road is already at capacity, all the people who evetually get caught and have to register will have to fork out for the upgrade of the infrastructure. Anyone who has applied for a new installation or and caapcity upgrade in a factory or premises will tell you it is not cheap. A quote for a factory move was cancelled due the million rand council upgrade fee.
Please tell me this is all garbage and I am sucking at straws. Show us facts that prove there is nothing to be concened about and the government will be offering subisdies to assit the people of this country.
ested a higher capacity
I am glad to see more and more people importing solar panels, so waiting 3 months for panels is a joke.
Comments are my opinion, unless regulations are attached to support the comment. This is social media, not a court room.
Did you watch the attached video and if so, what are your thoughts on what Colyn is saying ?
Do you think it's bull or is there merit in what he's saying ?
I did skim through it, we all know what the problems are, I cant say what I think on social media.
Originally posted by Derlyn
@Isetech.
Did you watch the attached video and if so, what are your thoughts on what Colyn is saying ?
Do you think it's bull or is there merit in what he's saying ?
Comments are my opinion, unless regulations are attached to support the comment. This is social media, not a court room.
Did you watch the attached video and if so, what are your thoughts on what Colyn is saying ?
Do you think it's bull or is there merit in what he's saying ?
I watched
The intelligent level of politicians and voters I will not disagree with
When it comes to trying to tell us that was done in previous years , like 1950, when people were not expected to live past the age of 60 still applies today is short sighted and a narrative to suit a particular agenda.
It has been proven medically that were high levels of CO2 and sulfur dioxide are present in the air there health issues around eyes , nose , throat and lungs which is the main reason that things have changed , worldwide.
Komati power station was coming to end of life and loss of energy from the grid was meant to have been replaced by Medupi and Kusile power stations - I also seem to remember that the coal fields in that area were coming to end of life .
A boiler can only last so long until it needs to be replaced - Any electrical and mechanical item reaches a stage that it costs more to maintain then it does to replace - It is why we change vehicles
Putting up wind and PV on the Komati site has not been a disaster , the building and commissioning of Medupi and Kusile has been the disaster and is well documented
PV is not dead in Germany ,UK or any where else in the world but growing at astronomical rates and that in countries that have no where near the same amount of sunshine .
If you go back 10 or 15 years ago, there where no completed Townhouse /estates off grid vs today there being a couple of them worldwide and again a expanding concept that was regarded as impossible 10 Years ago .
I have read 2 articles on complete PV and energy storage solutions powering 2 reasonable size cites and a further 1 that was done in a estate type set up where batteries from different houses would supply each other within there own network with the use of smart meters.
PV will not die out but energy storage will need to improve and is improving in leaps and bounds - Eskom first had its pump storage schemes for energy storage so at night the dams would be pumped full and day time the water run down and the pumps become generators - Today you have molten salt towers , Mechanical towers dropping dead weights to generate and talk of a break through on salt batteries.
Is PV and energy storage going to die - I very much doubt it as energy storage will become cheaper due to material changes and more environmental friendly , like everything else in the world that is striving to become environmental friendly.
In my opinion he has selectively taken events and strung them together to maximize the bullshit - anybody taking that as truth,I would place in the same category as the voters and Politian's he refers to
The part where I lost interest was when he refers to level of inteligence.
People point fingers , yet they control the country, they control you and I, they do and take what they want.
You have to look back at how they got to where they are, this country had the most powerful army in the world, a handful of people controlled and built an infrastructure with the very same people being used to destroy it.
I will say it again, with the right support and leadership this county, it could become an economic power house. We are positoned in the perfect place with people who have the abilty to build anything.
What is the problem, the external influnences who dont have our best interest at heart, merelt creating a base for their own agenda ?
I have worked with people of all races, when people reference people as stupid, I realise they have no idea.
I have learnt that stupid people are the ones who dont know their potential and generally stuck in a dead end job they have no interest in whats so ever, they get a job they hate, because that is what they have been brainwashed into believing since grade 1.
You have to ask yourself, who are the stupid people in this country, The people who control everything or the ones sitting in the backround doing nothing about it, just complaining ?
Comments are my opinion, unless regulations are attached to support the comment. This is social media, not a court room.
I watched
The intelligent level of politicians and voters I will not disagree with
When it comes to trying to tell us that was done in previous years , like 1950, when people were not expected to live past the age of 60 still applies today is short sighted and a narrative to suit a particular agenda.
It has been proven medically that were high levels of CO2 and sulfur dioxide are present in the air there health issues around eyes , nose , throat and lungs which is the main reason that things have changed , worldwide.
Komati power station was coming to end of life and loss of energy from the grid was meant to have been replaced by Medupi and Kusile power stations - I also seem to remember that the coal fields in that area were coming to end of life .
A boiler can only last so long until it needs to be replaced - Any electrical and mechanical item reaches a stage that it costs more to maintain then it does to replace - It is why we change vehicles
Putting up wind and PV on the Komati site has not been a disaster , the building and commissioning of Medupi and Kusile has been the disaster and is well documented
PV is not dead in Germany ,UK or any where else in the world but growing at astronomical rates and that in countries that have no where near the same amount of sunshine .
If you go back 10 or 15 years ago, there where no completed Townhouse /estates off grid vs today there being a couple of them worldwide and again a expanding concept that was regarded as impossible 10 Years ago .
I have read 2 articles on complete PV and energy storage solutions powering 2 reasonable size cites and a further 1 that was done in a estate type set up where batteries from different houses would supply each other within there own network with the use of smart meters.
PV will not die out but energy storage will need to improve and is improving in leaps and bounds - Eskom first had its pump storage schemes for energy storage so at night the dams would be pumped full and day time the water run down and the pumps become generators - Today you have molten salt towers , Mechanical towers dropping dead weights to generate and talk of a break through on salt batteries.
Is PV and energy storage going to die - I very much doubt it as energy storage will become cheaper due to material changes and more environmental friendly , like everything else in the world that is striving to become environmental friendly.
In my opinion he has selectively taken events and strung them together to maximize the bullshit - anybody taking that as truth,I would place in the same category as the voters and Politian's he refers to
The fact that I am placed in the same category as the voters and politicians is like water off a duck's back. I'm thick skinned.
Glad you at least agreed to some degree with Colyn, regarding the low intelligence levels of voters and politicians and not just regarded 100% of what he said, as bullshit.
I thought his idea about the Namib desert was appropriate.
Remember the jist of this video was to demonstrate what the west is PRESENTLY doing regarding the green agenda. They are trying their best, pulling out all the stops, in
preventing Africa from advancing, technologically. They are after our raw materials and ultimately the sea route between the west and east around the Cape. They have to do this subtly, with the hope that you and I will not catch on to their grand plan.
The fact of the matter is that Europe and the west is once again firing up their coal fired power stations, using our coal, while at the same time handing out vast amounts
of money to us as loans to assist us in mothballing our coal plants. Hypocrisy at it's best. The firing up of their coal fired plants is by and large not reported on by the MSM.
It is therefore wise not to form an opinion relying solely on the MSM for the news of the day.
Who can forget the bull that was dished up to everyone the last couple of years regarding the pestilence.
They even came up with new words and phrases to keep the agenda going. If anyone believes that there's actually an "asymptomatic" disease out there somewhere ( a disease without symptoms ) they can also be categorised as being on the same level as the voters and polititians. ( story for another day )
You are correct about a car not lasting forever. Nothing does. Most people however, when that time arrives, replace it with a new car and not a bicycle.
The question must be asked ....When a boiler has reached the end of it's life, why not replace it with a new boiler ?
I hear you regarding the illness issue. ( eyes, ears, nose and throat ) One problem with that line of thought.
In 99% of articles written about the green issue, the motivation for going green is, and has never been about health.
It started off with the global warming farce. ( You remember Al Gore's manipulated hockey stick graph ) That was until very senior, well respected scientists, climatologists etc proved beyond any doubt that to be a concocted, bullshit story. The green money making agenda had to continue so the term " climate change " was born.
When last did you hear anything about global warming ? No sir, now it's climate change.
One has to look at the big picture. It takes a long time to have a mind shift. I like the Afrikaans word to describe it. " 'n kopskuif "
It took me a long time, but with a bit of effort, I have successfully done so.
As an aside, I stumbled onto Colyn's channel whilst doing some research on the Ukranian issue. I like to be kept up to speed.
I think it was his 3rd or 4th video when I discovered him. Have not missed one of his well researched presentations since then.
The MSM is not his source of information.
I have attached another one of hi's gems on Eskom and how he is of the opinion that we are being played.
Once again a warning. Strong language. He doesn't hold back.
The fact of the matter is that Europe and the west is once again firing up their coal fired power stations, using our coal, while at the same time handing out vast amounts
of money to us as loans to assist us in mothballing our coal plants. Hypocrisy at it's best. The firing up of their coal fired plants is by and large not reported on by the MSM.
It is therefore wise not to form an opinion relying solely on the MSM for the news of the day.
It has been reported in main strem media and the main reason for firing up coal again is the Russian Ukraine war
Gas imports from Ruassia which Europe relies on has almost halted and the Nuclear plant in Ukraine is a problem along with some of France's nuclear power stations being problematic
with some of France's nuclear power stations being problematic
I have noted this issue of a shortage skilled personnel all over the world.
The word apprentice has almost become a swear word.
I think the younger generation are resting on the laurels of the previous generations accomplishments, and have almost a phobia of the trades vocational segment of industry.
Somehow this is a degrading position to be skilled in, until the shit gets stuck in the sewage pipe, they will pay any amount to clear it up.
I have also noted that when the bean counters take over a successful technical company, that in a few short years the business closes due to unsustainable losses.
You cannot run an engineering company with a calculator as your main tool to make the company liquid and profitable.
Interesting times ahead.
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It has been reported in main strem media and the main reason for firing up coal again is the Russian Ukraine war
Gas imports from Ruassia which Europe relies on has almost halted and the Nuclear plant in Ukraine is a problem along with some of France's nuclear power stations being problematic
So Europe runs out of power because their buddies ( America and Britain ) blow up the pipeline feeding them.
We also running out of electricity here at home.
Why doesn't Europe just install more wind and solar like we are basically being forced to do.
Isn't burning coal very bad for the planet, or does that only apply to SA ?
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