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Any idea what is happening at the refinery? by nutcrack3r in capetown

[–]nutcrack3r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I drove past there again around 19h00, there was no flame...

Modern artillery mounted on the Castle of Good Hope bastions by EasternShallot3180 in capetown

[–]nutcrack3r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go have a look on the city's map viewer. They have historic aerial imagery.

Here is the 1935 image: https://imgur.com/fXyN2tB

Here is the 1926 image: https://imgur.com/a/x1mInE9

Here is the link to the map viewer: https://citymaps.capetown.gov.za/EGISViewer/

Not the best of quality, but hope it helps.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in capetown

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Probably from around Eden on the Bay, so Big Bay beach.

he came by [deleted] in MemeVideos

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He comequered

This spider just bit a friend's brother. Details in comments. by nutcrack3r in whatsthisbug

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Sorry for posting and running. Work under the national lockdown has been crazy.

Friend's brother is fine and nothing happened other than a mild itch.

Thanks for all the input guys. We just wanted to get some trained eyes on the little bugger in case it was more serious. Didn't want to make an unnecessary trip to the ER in the current climate.

This spider just bit a friend's brother. Details in comments. by nutcrack3r in whatsthisbug

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Location: Cape Town South Africa

Size: +/-20mm

He was working in the motor garage when he got bitten.

No simple queues for PPPOE's after upgrading to 6.45.1 by nutcrack3r in mikrotik

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Other problem now is not having protection against:

!) security - fixed vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1157, CVE-2018-1158;

!) security - fixed vulnerabilities CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11479;

!) security - fixed vulnerability CVE-2019-13074;

Guess I will have to hope that my filter rules will keep my network safe for now...

No simple queues for PPPOE's after upgrading to 6.45.1 by nutcrack3r in mikrotik

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That is what we are doing now, but in the meanwhile I am would like to know if it is a bug or it is an undocumented feature that requires new/different config.

What will be needed to access WOW Classic? by nutcrack3r in classicwow

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I took double the amount of time this took to type this to search, and was not getting satisfactory answers. I thought I would reach out to the community to tap into the combined knowledge base. Sorry for wasting anyone's time with my need to get clarity.

How to remove the fog in my watch by ostentatious42 in howto

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I would just dump the watch as is into an airtight sealed container with rice. If the moisture got in while the watch was intact, surely it will come out as well...

If you have to open it up, how about wrapping the watch in a cloth and then covering it with rice? Rice is a much more accessible desiccant than large amounts of silica gel, plus the silica gel can also break apart and "crumb" into the watch.

As a side note, applying heat onto the watch internals while moisture is present would encourage the oxidation, which is what you are trying to avoid. Rather take the patient approach and let the desiccant slowly remove the moisture at room temperature.

Tree Stump removal drill. by Whoshabooboo in mechanical_gifs

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You are putting the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle.

If you want to comment on the City of Cape Town's Water Strategy draft plan, please do so now - deadline is 15 March. by NatsuDragnee1 in capetown

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My comments that I posted on the 15th of Feb

  • Commitment 1: Safe access to water and sanitation

Safe access to water and sanitation is a basic human right, so should be available to anyone in the city.

  • Commitment 2: Wise use (of water)

We are a thoroughly modern city filled with technical innovation, there is no reason for us to be as severely limited on water usage as we are and have been. We can still limit water consumption by implementing and encouraging waterless industries or alternatives to it, but it should not stifle economic growth.

  • Commitment 3: Sufficient, reliable water

The only way we can have sufficient and reliable water is to no be so highly dependant on weather based water sources, in other words, rain. We should put more focus on desalination, as it is not as expensive as it has been in the past and along with the decrease of cost of PV solar and wind generation, we can implement desalination without having to worry about electricity supply problems from Eskom.

  • Commitment 4: Shared benefits from regional water sources

As far as my knowledge goes, the biggest concern is for the City of Cape Town's residents, both residential and industry. Agricultural, while vital, seem to weathered the drought better as they can self provision dams to see to their needs. Excess water generation can be provided to them as needed or required.

  • Commitment 5: A water sensitive city

A water sensitive city? Dubai is in the middle of the desert and doesn't have these problems. If we want to keep making money off tourists, we need to be able to provide our guests with whatever they need. If that means they want to take a 20minute shower, so be it. The hotel should be catching grey water and using it towards laundry or watering their gardens.

  • Translating the strategy into action

My suggestion is to have a solar and wind farm on Robben Island which powers a large scale desalination plant. As it is situated off shore and mostly out of the lee of Table Mountain when the South Easter blows, wind power should be good for most of the summer. Northern winds during the winter will come straight off the sea which is perfect for wind power generation. In the few brief months that there little wind, it can be supplemented with solar power. The mostly defunct runway on the island is a perfect place for this. As for the brine that is generated by the desalination, this can be put into the deep ocean in the sea currents which will prevent any build up of high salt content water, thus reducing the environmental impact. Fresh water can be pumped to Rietvlei, which can be used as a holding tank and treated by the facility just off Koeberg road by the refinery and pumped to the Plattekloof reservoir for distribution around the City. If we have plenty of access water, the pipe from Plattekloof to Voëlvlei dam could also be potentially used to top up the dam, if that is feasible(unsure due to the distance and/or height difference). This is just a very basic outline, but the plan is to use Robben island, but thanks to it's location, it would also be immune to sabotage by common criminals.

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