Can‘t scientists come up with alternative power?

WITH the increasing number of very small houses being built in South Africa today, and factories and warehouses springing up all over the show, Eskom will be hard pressed to deliver enough electricity infrastructure and supply of a reliable nature at its bragged about cheap rate.

Supplying us with electricity-guzzling gizmos under the pretext of switching off geysers is just not on.

Urbanisation coupled to lack of infrastructure planning for the oppressed folk has now come home to roost. Big business has no alternative but to take the punch for this catch 22 we find ourselves in, pointing to a skewed mentality that foresaw that only the white man would want and be able to afford such amenities as broadband internet.

Hey wake up, people. The black diamonds have arrived and you have not begun to tap into the bourgeoisie market that is hungry for wisdom and socialising.

Nuclear power plants, we are told, are less destructive than coal-fired plants, which to me is nonsense for both affect the environment in one way or the other. Pebble bed modular reactors are the in-thing, purely based on the fuel being shaped in small balls that are easy to pack and store once used.

Are we expected to forget that these are highly toxic radioactive materials that will not lose their toxicity in many future generations to come?

For this economy to grow, though, electricity will be the impetus without a doubt. For at the rate we are going now blackouts have become the norm.

Is it not time that the sciences and theories we have come to master at universities came up with a viable alternative or refined electricity generation methods that will not sink humanity into an abyss we homo sapiens will not be able to extricate ourselves from?

Denzyl Harper, Korsten, Port Elizabeth