One hour of electricity

What does one do with one hour of electricity ?

Not a lot you might think.

But there are a few things where even one hour makes a difference.

The key issue is those devices that require more WATTS than your generator can comfortably carry.

First priority is PUMP WATER from your/shared borehole.

Funnily enough, one can never get enough of water... and pumping regularly using a generator (unless its a big diesel b**T*rd) can lead to early generator death

Second priority is IRON CLOTHES
 Another watt hungry activity but not one that you will be too enthused about if your 1 hour of electricity comes at 4am.

Third priority is the  WASHING MACHINE (yep we're middle class enough to have one) but here you have to brace for swearing and cursing of NEPA when they switch off with you part way through the cycle.

Fourth priority is SWITCH on EVERYTHING that might increase comfort or fun. (you might have spotted a problem here for NEPA managers ). You're only going to have electricity for an hour so you better enjoy it.

Step five is as per washing machine - brace for some swearing and switching off all round the house.

We didn't need step 1 to 4 yesterday -  there was light from NEPA about 30 minutes but we were both at work.


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Power Geeks Corner
The electricity went off at the Murtala M International Airport in Lagos the other day.
For about 3 hours.
Was not actually NEPA's fault (directly) because this time it seems to have been a fried cable between the airports generators and the airport buildings.
Here are a few facts from officials tho- the int airport has 6  generators (not all functional).
The airport reportedly gets 136,000 litres of diesel delivered every month.

Thats about $100,000  every damn month.

Expensive stuff this lack of power.
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