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TRUE STORY!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Ggw7dPR8ABNOqOlL_wuRWs72Ujqva5nfSV5VN66evZG3h4thJPdTSg2nt78ZAJExqsFqsmPWdDV2RcWF5HCHrK6YJSJz3qn9k8zBq5tjErFpTTHTl4BpVspc4GhyEn0FjHVRnJ8DWBUb/s1600/eskom-joke3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589068997842686418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Ggw7dPR8ABNOqOlL_wuRWs72Ujqva5nfSV5VN66evZG3h4thJPdTSg2nt78ZAJExqsFqsmPWdDV2RcWF5HCHrK6YJSJz3qn9k8zBq5tjErFpTTHTl4BpVspc4GhyEn0FjHVRnJ8DWBUb/s400/eskom-joke3.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 374px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> This rates as a pretty big Boo Boo. Our local utility supplier ESKOM manged to blow up a 600Mw steam turbine during a routine overspeed test. They then tried to keep a lid on it by reporting it as a fire during routine maintenance. A comedy of errors has cost Eskom R3bn and severely compromised South Africa’s supply of electricity. This has emerged after last month’s massive explosion at the Duvha power station outside Witbank, Mpumalanga. The February 9 explosion ripped through one of the turbines at the power station, causing extensive damage to the station’s infrastructure and immediately removing 600MW from the country’s electricity supply. That amount can power a city the size of Bloemfontein during peak hours. It has now emerged that human error or lack of personnel caused the explosion, as it happened during a routine check. Eskom is investigating whether the control room at the station was unmanned when all its safety mechanisms failed during a maintenance test on February 9. It appears that there was nobody in the control room to activate the emergency mechanism, which would have shut down the turbine immediately. “We are worried that such a thing could happen again,” said Dirk Herman of trade union Solidarity. This showed that Eskom’s personnel network could not handle the immense pressure, he said. “Eskom’s investigation into the incident must be broadened to include an audit of the state of the network and the state of Eskom staff,” he said. Read full story here - <a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Eskom-makes-R3bn-boo-boo-20110327" id="ctl00_ctl00_MainBodyPlaceholder_Column2Placeholder_articleStatistics_rptMostRead_ctl01_lnkArticle" onclick="javascript: $j().geekGaTrackPage('UA-2092186-1','/outbound/news24/mostread/Eskom makes R3bn boo-boo');">Eskom makes R3bn boo-boo</a>

EXPOSED - Eksdom R3bn boo-boo

TRUE STORY! This rates as a pretty big Boo Boo. Our local utility supplier ESKOM manged to blow up a 600Mw steam turbine during a routine o...

2:33 AM

'Eksdom blows up a turbine' cover-up lies

Eskom broken generator R3bn setback It will cost Eskom R3bn to replace the turbine generator that spun out of control and burst during a maintenance test near eMalahleni (Witbank). But almost worse than the monetary damage is the loss of 600MW in generating capacity for more than a year. It would take more than a year to replace the unit, said Hillary Joffe, Eskom’s head of communications. Unofficial sources reckoned it could take 18 months before a new unit, which would have to be ordered from and specially manufactured by French suppliers, could be put into operation. Photographs taken for the purposes of investigation of the damage shortly after the accident have since been widely published on the internet and show that the gigantic unit at Duvha, one of Eskom’s biggest power stations, was irreparably damaged by the explosion. According to Joffe, an overspeed test on the unit was conducted on the evening of February 9. The turbine generator unit normally spins at 3 000 revolutions a minute when it is linked to the national power grid and the network operated at its normal 50 Hz voltage level. But during the test the unit is disconnected from the national network. A valve controlling an enormous flow of steam to drive the turbine is then gradually opened to raise the pressure of the steam on the turbine. The speed at which the turbine rotates increases as the steam pressure rises. Joffe said the system has a bolt that starts to cut the rotational speed of the turbine as soon as it goes 10% over the design speed of 3 000 revolutions a minute. This time the safety mechanism failed for some other reason. (see below to find out what actually happened at Duhva) As a result the turbine spun faster and faster. The rotational speed increased too quickly for anything to be done before the enormous machine burst with a tremendous explosion, with debris scattering in all directions. The explosion ripped off several steel plates in the roof of the turbine hall. Pieces of shrapnel made hundreds of holes in the remainder of the 30-metre-high roof. - Sake24 Amazing how pics like these can get out even after Eskom put a blanket of secrecy around the whole incident ... Check out the holes in the roof - it's like a bomb went off - and that boken driveshaft lying on the floor is +-350mm diameter.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFjacD0Cq9gqYBXyMwO21qVf0mbMYgT8orgPqWGJcJ9ooByf8j40hBeiLbzw1G9kUPhMKjnymDzc0jOQMlIQZXKNdPTNWUuQ9WbEvCmV1QvG12FhmDhGNRevIFWxT266QiHNQkAZUaQwV/s1600/eskom-turbine.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586641558027128738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnFjacD0Cq9gqYBXyMwO21qVf0mbMYgT8orgPqWGJcJ9ooByf8j40hBeiLbzw1G9kUPhMKjnymDzc0jOQMlIQZXKNdPTNWUuQ9WbEvCmV1QvG12FhmDhGNRevIFWxT266QiHNQkAZUaQwV/s400/eskom-turbine.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRbF-mS5GSNo7G4YnB5TKnM42WvWDOHk_R3F8m3AfJ1wepaGm0973xorzsTprBbBXKyx106othrBXix8Z0Pvyy8EmKKJ2oW8UsfMOF-S8IhI5JD3T1HiMJn4JsKx8sCjzkqEAfu0f4wCp/s1600/eskom-turbine01.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586643083097054498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRbF-mS5GSNo7G4YnB5TKnM42WvWDOHk_R3F8m3AfJ1wepaGm0973xorzsTprBbBXKyx106othrBXix8Z0Pvyy8EmKKJ2oW8UsfMOF-S8IhI5JD3T1HiMJn4JsKx8sCjzkqEAfu0f4wCp/s400/eskom-turbine01.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSDBZjDavNCdpNQb1YP2IKIPBzv0P9eZARg-LjjTYUCbWO0tF4N9TYfvJJmvRdxxMN7tXk3v2PiF5f3_vutVWsju6JvqDRl6ERDX97mISctLBBR8uz4jpYDrEs_bE_4CJcJJedi6wmJgR/s1600/eskom-turbine06.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586656089877117074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSDBZjDavNCdpNQb1YP2IKIPBzv0P9eZARg-LjjTYUCbWO0tF4N9TYfvJJmvRdxxMN7tXk3v2PiF5f3_vutVWsju6JvqDRl6ERDX97mISctLBBR8uz4jpYDrEs_bE_4CJcJJedi6wmJgR/s400/eskom-turbine06.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDRe8RPtnlZmP31ZZq6y0yvq5TpuHtkbMHN_FiD7AwDkxR93ZavWjwOFz06tyJZBidnjDoH56l6T4eNYi0hQhN30m27IhI5Ip2KIept3k79fl9Xvt3Yt7BfRBS0nkL5zoB6_0PKCZa-6O/s1600/eskom-turbine02.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586643564657182162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDRe8RPtnlZmP31ZZq6y0yvq5TpuHtkbMHN_FiD7AwDkxR93ZavWjwOFz06tyJZBidnjDoH56l6T4eNYi0hQhN30m27IhI5Ip2KIept3k79fl9Xvt3Yt7BfRBS0nkL5zoB6_0PKCZa-6O/s400/eskom-turbine02.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Qgo-Ifz0yxxYT-p4SkpszxhiqHHfE9P-DevhMn7OHVZAFBtmmFgEAf2c6_Y2EzVtClLlvIFL4Se2GxGzEI51K4WYvPUTtzvglrM2LPgTI1NyKJB74wmBM70MKz-S1MIXIIE1FbXqOd3E/s1600/eskom-turbine03.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586644158986761010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Qgo-Ifz0yxxYT-p4SkpszxhiqHHfE9P-DevhMn7OHVZAFBtmmFgEAf2c6_Y2EzVtClLlvIFL4Se2GxGzEI51K4WYvPUTtzvglrM2LPgTI1NyKJB74wmBM70MKz-S1MIXIIE1FbXqOd3E/s400/eskom-turbine03.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzCbB7Z1FY81KNHy3a19UX8Moqo6l2v8O_etGMtFcQDHH_Y3DsXGWlwgRzYY6KCc58pgGu4y58oEvyb18t0llNdmDBof-_gLW_1Oed8NqE3KYgdq7kUs9oDCH5qybnL6JbO5PUSglz4hQ/s1600/eskom-turbine04.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586644946409696290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzCbB7Z1FY81KNHy3a19UX8Moqo6l2v8O_etGMtFcQDHH_Y3DsXGWlwgRzYY6KCc58pgGu4y58oEvyb18t0llNdmDBof-_gLW_1Oed8NqE3KYgdq7kUs9oDCH5qybnL6JbO5PUSglz4hQ/s400/eskom-turbine04.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNONibHgK1TeUjhZr2WbYYTaOmEoHbJZO2M4yl_JIMVbA-5JJxZ-5jakCvDakGoV3THN_GNU4wiX7t41Mi1-4CXu0S5h1KLJlP6-4psCw9wR1DmmeddwsQTI9zceLVxWgY8K8K3xYWE6Di/s1600/eskom-turbine05.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586645888711829154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNONibHgK1TeUjhZr2WbYYTaOmEoHbJZO2M4yl_JIMVbA-5JJxZ-5jakCvDakGoV3THN_GNU4wiX7t41Mi1-4CXu0S5h1KLJlP6-4psCw9wR1DmmeddwsQTI9zceLVxWgY8K8K3xYWE6Di/s400/eskom-turbine05.bmp" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> ESKOM blows up a turbine - R3Billion later <blockquote> "So I found out what happened at Duhva. They were doing a test of the turbine overspeed protection system, and in short, the protection did not kick in. Conventional wisdom tells me that there should be a better way to test a protection system than to try and destroy the turbine and see if it feels like protecting itself, but that’s basically what they did. The turbine has a governor valve which controls the amount of steam coming into the turbine in order to keep it running at the right speed (3000 rpm for our grid frequency) and then it has a main isolation valve to shut the steam off completely. The protections systems (of which there are 3 independent systems, and a dude with his finger on the emergency button) are supposed to close this main isolation valve in a fraction of a second when the turbine overspeeds. So they get ready for the test, they dump a helluva lot of steam onto the turbine, speed starts going crazy, it went from 3000 RPM to 4500 RMP in ten seconds (they are generally only designed for 10 to 15% overspeed, all three protection systems should have kicked in by the time you get to 110%). Anyway, all three systems failed, and the dude with his finger on the manual trip button wasn’t at his post. So the result was a big bang, some fire and a lot of steam going where it shouldn’t go. Scary thing is Duvha has a shared turbine hall. All six units are placed in one long straight stripe, with no missile shield between them. And if you look at the third last pic you can see how big that shaft is, if that landed on another turbine it would have destroyed that too. They are very lucky they didn’t lose the entire station. So anyway, what gets reported in the news? “Unforeseen maintenance” at one of the units at Duvha requires it to remain shut down for 18 months. Understatement of the century in my book. But you shut off the containment ventilation system at Koeberg for one hour and a radiation alarm goes off, then it’s a front page news national crisis. I give up." </blockquote> Source: <a href="http://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=79395">http://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=79395</a>

'Eksdom blows up a turbine' cover-up lies

Eskom broken generator R3bn setback It will cost Eskom R3bn to replace the turbine generator that spun out of control and burst during a mai...

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No looting in Japan

The media are cautiously beginning to note that the earthquake/tsunami in Japan has not resulted in a single reported case of looting or even disorderly behavior. Dazed residents have gone back to smashed houses to salvage what they can, but no one worries about thieves. Thousands of homeless line up quietly and politely as they wait for emergency food and water <div align="center"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584421863287191474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibU7tlLQ9hOYMZzymgL9ZFrr0mm8Sv1QpXEestUQFk-lyPhDmQnaoI1hoQlJp8qn78WMP3OIP08c7LgALVouaQohjMMprW1ATOqRwscSVxg6DnylBgrQNrUoC6gAIRSdK146ZSsZPrSnpL/s400/looting.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" />JAPAN : Orderley Disaster reaction - Japanese stand in line in front of a convenience store.</div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584460766353743218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sFwIGxBHHzrnaOTr-U61UAdrmi6ERG_MnPTI86wsjFQ5pI55n0LpYay4L9hfJlha3Ri2guEEQep-qkhg5wqi8pX3Y57TWiHPxr1GI8vxhjiwLkDTbr7DYb0qiGbK4s7At58rI9mElnsk/s400/haiti-looting.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" /> HAITI : Looters fight for goods taken from a destroyed store in Port-au-Prince <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3Sj9I5GTIwuuT1YZxnjQZYiQngRHZoFNKONtKVKGfZ2L5QVppqBnxNP8x6PLrzil-aiFtZpC4gPc-2T0mBwbFmGZJbX1Pop7fzrmVoZSuWJcGUsmiXKIoFjIJ_bWh4iy1C-kny6LtLtk/s1600/haiti-food.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584463779827941490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA3Sj9I5GTIwuuT1YZxnjQZYiQngRHZoFNKONtKVKGfZ2L5QVppqBnxNP8x6PLrzil-aiFtZpC4gPc-2T0mBwbFmGZJbX1Pop7fzrmVoZSuWJcGUsmiXKIoFjIJ_bWh4iy1C-kny6LtLtk/s400/haiti-food.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> HAITI : Savages swarm a UN aid convoy to grab at food and supplies in Petionville, Port-au-PrinceThe contrast with what happened after the Haiti earthquake last January or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 could not be more stark. In both cases, there was an almost immediate descent into savagery, with police officers joining in the looting. In New Orleans, evacuation centers became nightmares of violence and lawlessness, and the National Guard had to carry weapons on relief missions. In Haiti, tent cities for the quake victims became scenes of mass rape. <a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/12/orderly-disaster-reaction-in-line-with-deep-cultural-roots/">The CNN news blog</a> story quotes two American “experts” on why the Japanese are so well behaved. Gregory Pflugfelder of Columbia University says it is because, unlike Americans, Japanese are not individualistic and care about the group. Merry White of Boston University says Americans loot and riot because of frustration over “alienation and class gaps.” Wrong. Incapable, as usual, of considering race, they cannot see that the greatest advantage the Japanese have is that they are not black. It is impossible—and I mean impossible—to imagine any black population anywhere in the world behaving like the Japanese. It is not just blacks. What if a catastrophe struck in Mexico or Indonesia or India or Egypt or Colombia? There would be widespread looting. Native relief agencies would make huge profits selling donated supplies rather than giving them away. Americans or Europeans who showed up with trucks of food would be mobbed. Human vileness would make the calamity vastly worse for the survivors. Prof. White says the real question is why Americans loot, not why the Japanese don’t. Wrong again. Virtually all people loot if the forces of order are knocked out, and it has nothing to do with “individualism” or “alienation and class gaps.” That is their nature. The “experts” are also wrong to talk about “Americans” as if there were only one kind. Everyone knows that if the lights go out there will be trouble in Detroit but not in Portland, and everyone knows why: Detroit is black and Portland is white. There would be trouble in Los Angeles, too. After the verdict in the Rodney King beating case, just as many Hispanics as blacks rioted. Would an all-white population behave exactly like the Japanese? There might be a bit of looting and profiteering, but not much. Most whites would help their neighbors, stand in line, wait their turn. And they would probably deal harshly with looters. Before they accepted millions of non-white immigrants, Northern Europeans would have behaved much like the Japanese. Swedes, Scots, Dutchmen, Germans, Danes—wherever they are still undiluted by immigrants they can be counted on to show courage, restraint, and dignity. But again, these peoples are exceptions. They are exceptions for reasons that are largely genetic but also cultural. Whites and north Asians have high average IQs, but also what could be called an “average personality” that is less psychopathic, more disciplined, more public spirited. We see this in every aspect of the societies they build, not just in how they respond to tragedy. Their societies have little crime, illegitimacy, littering, or graffiti. They have high levels of public order, trust, and courtesy. Only a few populations are capable of building such societies, and they are vastly superior to all others. That, of course, is why so many people from failed societies want to immigrate, but when they come in sufficient numbers they destroy what they came to find. Things would have been far different in Japan if the country had admitted large numbers of, say, Malays or Pakistanis. So far, Japan has wisely limited Third-World immigration, and can face a catastrophe with the conviction that all Japanese are united both in suffering and in the struggle to rebuild. Japan is far better prepared to face calamity than America or Europe because Japan has had the wisdom to remain Japanese. Jared Taylor, Special to AR News, March 14, 2011 Haiti Earthquake: 1 year later... <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584455602925918258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ultNy_lTS07bc1EGHevDKCiFeqRHikEW7XMbLCVM5pl-ihn_E0kLPIBSDhsVeRrpK_Baxmo_GAAgFlq2XmzMbClrweN1nbs5z4VtGi4UGh4Tw4r5H2kuFUsNlx8HBs63ur7MhWenK6zH/s400/haiti-pres-palace.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 310px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" />Haiti's quake recovery progress is 'at a standstill.' The Presidential Palace, still looks like it did right after the quake hit a year ago. The top photo shows it today and the bottom one is from Jan. 13, 2010. It's not clear when or if it will be rebuilt. The palace now stands as a symbol of how little Haiti has changed in a year. More than one year after the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the streets of Haiti still show the damage of the disaster, despite the outpouring of aid that followed the quake. Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince remains in ruins. Rubble has not been removed. Many businesses, homes and churches, including the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, remain buried in rubble, and have come to symbolize precisely how little progress has been made towards reconstruction country-wide. Nearly 1 million people still live in makeshift shelters and temporary encampments. Unsanitary conditions, crime, exposure to harsh weather, joblessness and uncertainty remain the reality for most people.

No looting in Japan

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