One small detail: generators run at the same speed at 50 Hertz in Malta.

The bigger the load, the more fuel is required.

Well he was for saying that and those pinheads were too.

Very good question! Excuse the exclamation mark but it’s the sort of thing every damn politician and pundit should have been asking and answering.

The generator is the voltage source. The source sets the voltage, but does not determine the current. That is determined by the load. If the load draws no current (e.g. your friza is switched off), then no energy is drawn from the source.

In practice, it means there is less resistance in the generators. However, all generators have to turn at a certain frequency which is controlled by making the engine turn faster or slower according to the current drawn.

If the mysterious unpublished contract stipulates a base load that’s way above the average actually needed, then we’re well and truly Ron Jeremied. Because those Chinese technicians at the new power station would either shut down some of the generators (unlikely) and still bill the Maltese government for they would have consumed or (more likely) just let the generators turn on full whack, because it’s not their money.

Measurement of energy is done with meters connected to the load: voltage X Current X Time

Power has to be used to become energy.

Energy is power used for an amount of time.

Energy cannot be created, nor destroyed.

Any engineer would tell you that a generator would demand more fuel as soon as the load increases.

So if, for argument’s sake, there’s a public holiday and everyone does not go to work and goes out for a picnic, the electricity load would be at a minimum. Electrogas would be raking in money for fuel which their generators did not even consume.

I think it is high time we knew the contents of that contract.

True. A bit naive of Tonio Fenech but you shouldn’t look further than that. The irony of it all is that all the while the tycoon switchers were cosying up to Labour. The real scandal isn’t his acceptance of that clock (naive again) or his visit to Highbury, but the appointment by the Prime Minister of multi millionaire businessman Keith Schembri as his chief of staff.

I truly don’t understand Times of Malta’s policy about internet comments. I have posted a couple of normal non-insulting, but questioning, comments, and they have not been uploaded.

Yet the editor allows an infinite number of stupid, nonsensical, racist and nauseating comments, to say nothing of the cat fights.

The Malta Independent is an English language newspaper and so comments should be in English only. As for those who want to post in Maltese, there are Maltese language newspapers where they can do so.

And I hope that The Malta Independent has a hands-on moderator who can sort out the wheat from the chaff and nip in the bud any school playground name-calling inane posts.

Reporter last year before the election – unbelievable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PUv1bGdmdg

You need to go half way and buy a ticket.