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Terry Mackenzie-Hoy

Mackenzie-Hoy is a consulting acoustics and electrical engineer – machoy@iafrica.com

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Going for gas

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A reader, Koos Botes, sent me an email, asking if I might discuss the pros and cons of installing a gas heating and cooking system in a house instead of electricity and what the pitfalls might be.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

12 Mar 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Tenderpreneurs frustrating legitimate contractors

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A ‘tenderpreneur’ in this country is a person who has made an extraordinary sum of money from a contract (usually a national government, provincial government or municipa tenderl) that has been awarded for some sort of service.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

05 Mar 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Electrical problems arising from inadequate designs have reached crisis proportions

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Quite often, I drive past a building under construction and I see the project notice board that lists all the people involved in the design and construction of the building.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

26 Feb 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Hefty tariff hike could force some mines to generate their own power

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There does not seem to be any backing off by Eskom on the proposal to build the enormously costly Kusile power station and on its demand for a 35%-a-year tariff hike to pay forthe power station project.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

19 Feb 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

The colour of money

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Politics is a dirty game. It is about power and money. I doubt that anybody would think that former US President George W Bush was not aware of how the Republican Party was funded. Funds would come from the public.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

05 Feb 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Airport security in the US, the UK, SA and the rest of Africa

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The implementation of airport security is much in the news these days. It is my belief that, if a person is prepared to die while setting off a bomb, there is not much one can do to stop it.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

29 Jan 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

How about a trade union for engineers?

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I was sitting in a bar (cries of "No!", "How unusual!" and "That's a first!") and the talk, such as it was, was general, which is to say I was talking to Bongi, the lady behind the bar.

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

22 Jan 10

ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING

Kusile's projected cost out of whack with global norms

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In Engineering News (for Natal Graduates, this is the magazine you are now reading) the cost of Kusile power station is given as R142-billion and State-owned power utility Eskom is hoping to get private investors to put R40-billion up in private...

By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

15 Jan 10

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Cape Town Port Elizabeth	Eskom Anglo American Plc Transvaal & Victoria Falls Power Company Hitachi SA	ZAR USD Cent	Electricity Food Gas Cook Gas Costs Gas Heating Gas Installation Gas Installations Gas Ring Gas Wins Gas-leak-detection Equipment Steel Energy Search Procedures Security Systems Electricity Price Energy Expenditure
Person	Technology	Country	Facility
Koos Botes Sophie Tommy Tom Tom George W Bush Jacob Zuma John Bewsey Natal Graduates	Radiation Power Generation Technology Incineration	South Africa United Kingdom United States	Kusile Power Station Port Elizabeth Power Station KW Eskom Medupi Power Station
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