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First Solar And Now Boreholes Under Attack

source A report published back in 2023 recommended that R400 billion was required to fix the ageing water infrastructure. The budget given to the water department

Power Supplier Threatens To Cut Power To Johannesburg Mounting Debt Owed

source Johannesburg has a mounting debt crisis with literally every single service already on it's knees. Johannesburg City is run by the ruling government party

Trying to fix my HP Gas booking online

Since yesterday I have been working on this and yet there is no solution. Since past one year I have not booked a Gas cylinder at my Mumbai home and because of that

Load Shedding Now Replaced By Water Shedding

source South Africa seems to be moving from one disaster to the next and all of this can ne laid at the feet of the ANC government who have been in power for 32

Death Spiral Turns To A Mathematical Reality

source Tipping Point Reached This Year That It Would Be Cheaper To Finance A Solar Installation Over 5 Years Than Pay For Electricity. This is one of those good

Utility Service Defaulters Threatened With Removal Of All Services

source The worst non payers or payment defaulters in the City of Johannesburg have been threatened with the removal of all cables and meters unless they pay. The

A Free PDF Tool with OCR

Good evening I have tried PDF OCR scanning with the big boys like Google and Microsoft 365 but nowhere have I found a tool as accurate is this reading your handwriting

Bollette in aumento?

Non se se avete notato anche voi, ma le bollette, soprattutto quelle di gas e luce, sembrano proprio aver subito un forte rincaro negli ultimi mesi. Ovviamente dipende

And So It Begins Again

source Load shedding is back in full force as it all kicked off last night starting at 5pm. South Africa has lasted nearly 10 months by calling hit something else

Utility "Service" Incompetence Strikes Again

source Check the list of directors at the bottom of the announcement. In South Africa they like to throw around words like "investigate" which in all honesty

Stepping Away From The Power Grid

source Today I started the journey of what will eventually be an off the grid home power wise that is by paying for the complete solar kit. I am having my own

VeChain Is Showing Signs Of Life

source The VeChain is actually quite an interesting crypto project to dissect as this has so many real use cases with some already operational and others still to

Spot On

A chap by the name of Eon de Koker who is a specialist electric and electronic engineer has warned the local municipalities to wake up. This is in regard to their

The Living By Timetable

source Last night we had a power cut for roughly 6 hours which turned out to be a fault and not load shedding or the new terminology being used load reduction. Who

VeChain -The My Story Verification

source With all the talk with VeChain (VET) focused on CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) which starts in January 2026 there are so many other real life utilities

Understanding Why Alts Are Taking A Hit

source Interesting data at this site as you can check liquidations on any token. Hive had none and not sure if that is a good or bad thing lol as it just said no

Solar Installation Cannot Come Soon Enough

source For those of you living around the world you are lucky not to experience load shedding because for one it is highly depressing living via a time table. This

Load Shedding On Hold Temporarily

source Next month we are having South Africa's General Election and the only change we have visibly noticed is that load shedding has stopped. The last time we had

Eye Opening Numbers

source 190K DPINR within a 24 hour period (Delta Platinium's Indian Rupee) is slowly increasing in demand as they slowly roll out the launch process. Offering a

This Is Not Normal

source This message was 10 hours after the power went off source The urgency is the problem as there is none and we are working on African time which means you need