
It looks like the suits in STELCO are finally learning of their place in the technological world. Before anyone considers "protesting" the bill hikes, one must have to look at the technology with which STELCO provided electricity to the "most congested city on Earth.".
Diesel Generators. That's right; the same thing used to power large boats and small communities in the early days of petroleum energy. Those power plants were in vogue in the 1920's for fuck's sake. For a city area ranked among the "Most Congested in the world", having a diesel power plant powering the place is an engineering nightmare. I'm not surprised we have rolling blackouts more. The problem here is - the city of Mal'e has grown exponentially large, that the Utility company STELCO that still use outdated technology can no longer bear the brunt of supplying electricity - especially when the previous regime leaders squandered money that should have been used on development projects.
This is the grim result of the conservative society that eschews change, and the greedy that thrive in such backwardness. While the development of our national infrastructure has been grounded by greedy, money laundering politicians and the whole process of decay allowed to go on by lazy conservatives, only now we hear big talk about "changing the technology" and "infrastructure" - when disaster looks them straight in the eye.. The average, weak-minded conservative Maldivian will probably view profitable ventures as Green energy, modular Nuclear Energy, Resource Management and even the development of newer, high-capacity ports to build up the shipping business and bring revenue as "too hard, can't be assed.".
And that's not all. Compared to a "developed country", Maldives's overall electricity usage is fairly low - when compared to other countries on our "development level". Apparently because many of the the outer islands are STILL stuck in the Great Depression, 1930. It is widely believed that corrupt politicians and businessmen has had a hand in the grinding failure of STELCO.
Quite believable, when they have names like "Jangiya".
Seriously, there was enough money squandered by the Maumoon regime to build small-scale nuclear plants, and even fund a proper infrastructure and development of the islands, without depending on foreign loans. I personally think the so-called "opposition party alliance" need to explain where the money has gone before postulating about "Islam" and "Democracy". It is their mismanagement and greed that has forced the current government to take such massive belt-tightening steps such as reducing the salaries of the civil servants.
Well, I've been watching Maldives spiral lower and lower; Due to this new tariff system that promises uber-high electricity bills, I'll have to add solar panels and build rudimentary homebrew power systems. Sure, people will look at me funny, but it's their loss. I'm the one that'll get the cheap electricity while the primitives flounder when their old, tottering supports give way. There is a reason why the dinosaurs went extinct - and these conservatives have to understand a simple law of existence.
"Either you learn to adapt, or the ever-changing circumstances will break you."
PS: The Last Unicorn was on TV today. The censorship had me foaming at the mouth and whistling into cellphones in order to launch nuclear warheads towards the MoIA.







