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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You wont believe the ruckus some people created when they tried to put up a nuke-plant for power in India.. and guess what some funding for the “ruckus” came from some liberals in other countries!!
Worse than this?
Scroll down and prepare yourself (Warning!)...
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
And we are allowing these filthy people to manufacture and export medications to the USA.
We are also allowing companies based there to do drug testing. How on earth could we ever trust anything from this cesspool.
Stop all immigration from India before the USA starts to look and smell like this.
First time I saw that site’s pics, I had nightmares. And yes, we’re importing meds, supplements, products etc from that subhuman shithole, and many others around the world, notably even much more that corrupt, criminal, filthy sewer of China. Good God, what are we thinking?
Nope...just the instantiation of those objects!
This is just a faint taste of what would result if an EMP ever exploded over the U.S.
In contrast life in India goes on quite smoothly even during an extended power cut.....with the minor inconvenience of not being able to use the fan during the summer.
India is a large country, one that differs dramatically from one region to another. And Indian immigrants have done a good job integrating into American society - where did your family come from? Ireland? The Scottish highlands? Eastern Europe? There were plenty of places from which immigrants came to America where living conditions were described in similar ways, and yet they assimilated well. Indians too have integrated - heck, the median income of Indians in the US is close to double that of the median white income. Clearly they’re doing something right.
“Stop all immigration from India before the USA starts to look and smell like this.”
Wow! Well maybe you should start bringing all the clean, White people from Europe. And unlike the filthy Indians, they would no doubt be very “hardworking” and never live off benefits, I am sure.
Yeah, you’re so right. Europe’s just packed-full of places like this:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
“Come To India: Unlike Any Other Hellhole On Earth.” (Bangladesh/Calcutta Dept of Tourism)
No I am not. I thought India wasnt such a bad place but maybe I am wrong. The master race of clean, white people from Europe is better then filthy Indians.
http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/images/footprint%20BW%20shoes.jpg
Yes, it’s coming here. The reason they all lost power is because they gave up their coal fired power plants.
1/10th of humanity lost electricity over a hoax.
You said Indians are filthy. So who is clean? Obviously white people right? So yeah master race. Everyone else is filthy. I don't need to put any crap into YOUR mouth. You are doing fine all by yourself.
THOSE ARE NOT MY WORDS! Can you even read a post correctly? TO is at top of each numbered post; FROM is at bottom of each numbered post. Can’t you even figure that out? Are you that freaking stupid?
Here, let me help you:
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To: carriage_hill
And we are allowing these filthy people to manufacture and export medications to the USA.
We are also allowing companies based there to do drug testing. How on earth could we ever trust anything from this cesspool.
Stop all immigration from India before the USA starts to look and smell like this.
24 posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:31:54 AM by Wurlitzer (Nothing says “ignorance” like Islam!)
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First time I saw that site’s pics, I had nightmares. And yes, we’re importing meds, supplements, products etc from that subhuman shithole, and many others around the world, notably even much more that corrupt, criminal, filthy sewer of China. Good God, what are we thinking?
25 posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:37:17 AM by carriage_hill (All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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All better now? Go play in the traffic, will ya.
In 1980 I met a Bombay native, who my company was sponsoring for a work permit here. (Super guy, btw, a Zoroastrian, Chartered Accountant, had been working in Tehran when the Shah lost power to the Khomenie revolution).
Anyway I asked him about upper-middle-class life for his family in Bombay. He said running water was only available for a few hours per day, so you filled the home water tanks when it was.
Then water was available for use, from gravity-tanks mounted up high.
Etc.
Oh screw that boring stuff.
Tell me more about filthy people Mr. Master Race White guy.
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