How could a power outage possibly happen?
Posted on 07/30/2012 8:37:10 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a dark reminder of the nation's inability to feed a growing hunger for energy as it strives to become an economic power.
While the midsummer outage was unique in its reach - it hit 370 million people, more than the population of the United States and Canada combined - its impact was softened by Indians' familiarity with almost daily blackouts of varying duration. Hospitals and major businesses have backup generators that seamlessly kick in during power cuts, and upscale homes are hooked to backup systems powered by truck batteries.
Nonetheless, some small businesses were forced to shut for the day. Buildings were without water because the pumps weren't working, and the vaunted New Delhi Metro, with 1.8 million daily riders, was paralyzed during the busy morning commute.
"This will obviously get worse," said Subhash Chawla, a 65-year-old retiree who took the Metro once power was restored. "Unless the Metro has a separate power supply, it will be chaos in the future."
The grid feeds the nation's breadbasket in Punjab, the war-wracked region of Kashmir, the burgeoning capital of New Delhi, the Dalai Lama's Himalayan headquarters in Dharmsala, and the world's most populous state, poverty-stricken Uttar Pradesh.
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Wonder how the Globalists will spin this one.
All those “educated” and “hard working” Indians just had their entire nation’s power grid collapse. And, Globalists, Free Traders, and Socialists want to hire these people to take high tech jobs from Americans?
I guess India will have to do what companies already do when Indians fail at tech: They have to bring in Americans to correct the mistakes
Is Elizabeth Warren one of them? < /s >
This is unbelievable. Can’t imagine the whole United States going without electricity for any length of time. Is this a sigm of things to come?
Nope. Indians from all around the world know Warren is a fake.
This is old news, power came back up yesterday, situation off the headlines in India, smaller scale outages are very common.
How could a power outage possibly happen?
WOW! India will be even scummier than usual.
It wasn’t the whole grid, just the North grid that serves Delhi and a few other smaller states in the Northwest of India. It was due to low water in power reservoirs and to a couple of states illegally drawing an extra 1GW from the national grid.
A preview of what it’s going to be like in America if Barry gets re-elected in November. He’s going to close down all of the power plants in order to “save da planet”.
See. I knew someone would come up with the facts.
370 million? That’s a lot of people, isn’t it?
Is Dell technical support affected?
370,000,000 lost power. Total population of India is 1,241,491,960
When Indians begin to complain about the heat, you know it’s hot, hot, HOT!!!
This is doubtless the inspriation for the internal table and object definitions for Windows Vista...
Cheers!
If we keep dumping baseload plants it will happen. Coal, hydro and nuclear keep this country lit. Natural gas and green peakers can’t do it.
Obviously we need to give them about $3B so they can add solar panels and wind farms.
nonsense, of course. If it’s anything like here in the Philippines, it will only mean the poor will get out their cellphones to listen to the radio and light candles for light, while the rich and middle class will turn on their generators for the airconditioner.
I mean, yes, it needs to be fixed, but nearly everyone is used to brownouts in the third world.
I lived in Panama in the 1980s. It was typical to have a six-hour outage about every three weeks. Course, this only affected non-US military areas....they always had full power and no issues.
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