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Fix Eskom Musk-Style: First-Principles Repairs for South Africa’s Power Crisis

How to Fix Eskom Musk-Style: First-Principles Repairs for South Africa’s Power Crisis

How to Fix Eskom:  Most of the basis of this article came about due to my stint in operations management – most of the issues we see with Eskom was brought about due to flawed practices within the system.  Operations includes having safeguards against corruption unless the gate keepers are corrupt.

The first article in this series laid out how Eskom went from global best to one of the world’s most expensive and unreliable utilities. Now the logical next question: how do we actually fix it?

Ampacity and Current Handling of Conductors

Ampacity and its not so subtle Path to Destruction

Ampacity – Live shows, domestic and industrial power – it’s all about Ampacity

Report: 2013:- South Africa has approximately 60 000–80 000 unnatural deaths per year, with an average of approximately 70 000 per year. There are currently 36 registered forensic pathologists in South Africa. An electrocution death is considered an unnatural death and is, therefore, referred for autopsy examination in South Africa.

Ampacity - 220/110 V transformers.
220/110 V transformers.

Induction Motor

Electric Motors in low current Circuits

Electric Motors, Trends over the last 50 Years

For those born after 2000 an electric motor is seen as just another product of technology, just like the cell phone.  Electric motors have been with us for the last 200 years, personal handheld phone (Motorola and Martin Cooper) about 50. There is a link of course, that being switching devices.

 Universal motor of a vacuum cleaner – Wiki Commons Marrci –  Universal Series Wound Electric Motor

Although it is an accepted fact that inverters and variable frequency drives are with us to stay, older technology relied on some pretty innovative ideas to increase and/or lock an electric motor’s speed.