One for T1Terry....

[pelbo]

What did they use in South Australia before they had candles????





















Electricity.....

[SteveW]

Electricity! but we have progressed in making the world a better place, apparently. All during the hot week the government was sponsoring radio messages advising the elderly to stay indoors with the air conditioner on - then they cut the power.

[T1 Terry]

What did they use in South Australia before they had candles????
Electricity.....

Candles, then a home generator and batteries, then they strung up wires all over the place and built coal burning power stations and people switched to mains power. Unfortunately the politicians and the national generation regulators didn't have the same wires connected to their chairs so we have suffered with political football disease resulting in no gas powered back up generation like 4 stage gas turbines or even cleverer, gas powered fuel cells in each suburb and a govt policy that said only excess natural gas could ne sold off shore, so now we have a power grid about as stable as a house of cards.
Now the clever people are going back to batteries and solar panels in place of the generator and either using the grid as a back up or telling the authorities where the mess they have now would best fit.
I can see a time in the near future where the grid owners will be charged for the use of the land their cables pass over and access to those cables and towers. That's the problem with selling a govt asset like that to private enterprise, the govt can no longer enforce rules that would benefit a private enterprise.... thankfully we aren't like America yet or the power poles would be called Trump Towers It will be a case of either accepting people can opt out of the grid with no charges for the cables passing their property or facing breach of contract fines and penalties for failing to provide the power they contracted to supply, you can do that to a private enterprise where you couldn't do it to a govt owned asset..... I know which would be the cheaper option

T1 Terry