Friday, February 29, 2008

Power Outages

Enjoying electricity for a while now without shedding. At least we value it more than before. Botswana power corp released a schedule of shedding times in Gaborone but the site (hosted by IBIS) has been down for more than two weeks now.

Apparently 75% of our power supply comes from South Africa. South Africa is supplying their neighbors and out of 100% of energy only 5% is supplied to neighboring countries which mean that they use 95% of their own power so i don't think Botswana has such a heavy impact on Eskom.

And we are not the only country(s) that are affected by outages New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Toronto and Ottawa, Florida, Canada and parts of Europe have also recently had major outages.
So knowing that we not in the struggle alone should make us feel a bit better.

Vote as to what you do when there is an outage and comment on where you wouldn't wanna be at the time of an outage (e.g elevator).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well apart from being stuck in an elevator which i have been stuck in before with a paranoid lady.. i wouldn't wanna be in hospital especially on some form of life support and even more importanly not in Botswana.

Anonymous said...

Well written article.