If every water heater in SA were solar heated, would Escom still have to practise power shedding?

There is, of course, the problem that supply could not meet demand. Sound familiar?

See the article in M&G:

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?are…

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Of course, this technology was available quite a long time ago, but it's complety bizarre why the bigwigs never bothered to see a connection between the South African climate and solar power.

It's quite understandable that the government didn't, seeing that their first priority (as always) is to grab kickbacks from monstrous, pre-historic parastatals like Eskom….

And the more things change, the more they stay the same…

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Ag Cakes just look at the price of the solar panels in the article. I really can not see how every one will afford that just to keep you geaser heated. I think Escom is keeping us all in the dark …. we will have to wait and see (or don't see because it will be dark) until 2016. I think we should stop selling electricity to Botswana, zimbabwe and Mosambique…South Africans first then other countries untill they built this big power thing they are carrying on about. I think in the end every one who can afford it will have a generator. 3 years ago I was in Kenia and there everyone (that can afford it) had their own generators. I think in the end we will have to get one too. So if you want to make bucks in SA start importing and selling generators.

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I'm waiting for the South African-designed solar cells to come out. They were developed at UJ and are cheap and durable - but are only being produced in Germany! http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/…

In the meantime, there's always cheap British solar cells to fall back on: http://www.cpssolar.co.uk/epages/luk.sf/…

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That could help…but the problem is that most people would not afford the panels….