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In South Africa we are experiencing major shortfalls in our power generation (coal fleet is aging and breaking down more - poor maintenance and two new mega pow
by tibbydudeza 4y ago
In South Africa we are experiencing major shortfalls in our power generation (coal fleet is aging and breaking down more - poor maintenance and two new mega power stations has been mired with corruption during building)
We have a few cycle gas turbines (diesel) and two major hydro schemes which maintains a critical reserve at all times of water, so they just need to open the sluices to jumpstart the system.
Also, our grid is tied to our neighbors so they can help out if need be like France does to the UK during shortfalls.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoWe now up to Stage 6 as we call it. I will have no power from 6pm until 8:30pm and then again from 10pm until midnight. Fortunately, we got a gas cooker/inverter for my ONT/Router/WiFi.
- dividedbyzero 4y ago> Fortunately, we got a gas cooker/inverter for my ONT/Router/WiFi. Does the ISP keep things working for the duration?
- tibbydudeza 4y agoThe fiber box at home is 12V so it is easy to power yourself - the local POP has battery backup since it is installed at the same location as the cellphone masts for our neighborhood. The core routers in probably in a datacenter with battery/diesel backup. We had outages in the beginning because they use DHCP for the fiber box to get an IP address so you can imagine a few thousand ONT terminals all coming online nearly at the same time and hitting one DHCP server