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The U.S. Is On India's Horrid Energy Path
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| 08/02/2012
| Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Posted on 08/02/2012 6:46:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Many are saying it’s a result of a low rain volume monsoon season and the excessive heat...all the farmers had to run their irrigation pumps when they never had to before.
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08/02/2012 6:56:03 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: stuartcr
Most of the power in Northern India comes from hydro electric plants. This year the monsoon was low and there wasn't enough water to keep the hydro electric plants running at full capacity and add to that the sweltering heat caused massive surge in power demand an usage.
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08/02/2012 7:47:36 AM PDT
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ravager
To: SeekAndFind
Having lived in India... one of the major problems with the electrical system, is theft...in my opinion, 50% of the electrical power consumed is from illegal tapping of the system distribution wiring....it was rather comical, as evening approached, people, would tap into the street lights for the evening, when finished, they would disconnect the tap.,,,
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08/02/2012 7:48:58 AM PDT
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B212
To: SeekAndFind
Before we compare US with India, one has to remember US is a far more industrialized country with solid infrastructure. India is a rapidly growing economy (but with poor infrastructure) that is basically starting out with nothing and growing into a mega economy. The demand in US is likely to be fairly stable, while in India it is likely to increase rapidly and that is going to create problems with a tardy bureaucracy not able to keep up. It would be interesting to see how India solves these problems but other then that I see very little relevance with issues faced by US.
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08/02/2012 8:02:44 AM PDT
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ravager
To: B212
Most of that theft happens in Uttar Pradesh (UP) the land of the “dacoits” and “thugees”.
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08/02/2012 8:10:12 AM PDT
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ravager
To: ravager
It must be really smelly now.
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posted on
08/02/2012 8:19:23 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: SeekAndFind
Policies such as ripping out perfectly good hydropower dams (such as the the Klamath, Condit, Rogue, Elwah) or regulations that shut gown the coal plants that power the Pacific Northwest and a good portion of CA are equally shot sighted.
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posted on
08/02/2012 8:29:55 AM PDT
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marsh2
To: ravager
UP and Bihar are India's Afghanistan.
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08/02/2012 8:32:59 AM PDT
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ravager
To: stuartcr
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posted on
08/02/2012 8:35:49 AM PDT
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ravager
To: ravager
Have you ever walked through a busy Indian city street? The odor will knock you off your feet. I imagine a few days without power, and juast damn.
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08/02/2012 8:41:00 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: stuartcr
Have I ever? I lived in India half my life. No, it doesn’t knock me off. And it is good thing there aren’t that many body smell averse faggots walking around in India. Their use for power is for more practical needs.
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08/02/2012 8:53:31 AM PDT
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ravager
To: stuartcr
Talking about smell..... go find out from what country all the sandalwood, camphor, incense, candles and fragrance oil in the US comes from.
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08/02/2012 9:03:38 AM PDT
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ravager
To: ravager
I was in some crummy parts of Mumbai, and it wasn’t so much the bodies as the general overall smell on the streets. I will say some of the people on the trains inland are pretty ripe. I guess I wasn’t there long enough to get over the olfactory overload.
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posted on
08/02/2012 9:22:05 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: stuartcr
Smells brings memories. Its not such a bad thing. Ever been to a temple in India?
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posted on
08/02/2012 9:32:22 AM PDT
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ravager
To: SeekAndFind
Everything government touches increases in cost and decreases in quality and availability. Too bad we can’t have a true free market in energy.
The ding-a-lings in our state are trying to get us to pay more for energy from wind power while shutting down coal fired plants. The world has gone insane.
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08/02/2012 9:36:25 AM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
To: stuartcr
My grand parents hail from a very picturesque village in Bengal where they burn dung cakes for fuel. Haven't been back there in more then a couple decades but the mild scent of fresh dung and soot in the air brings back a lot of memories.
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08/02/2012 9:40:33 AM PDT
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ravager
To: ravager
I really like the smell of incense, but the food offerings, sometimes get too ripe. Like you said, smells bring back memories and we associate events with them. I used to go to Glasgow a lot, and that place had a very distinctively unpleasant smell almost all over the place. Living most of my life near the water on the east coast of the US, I guess I’m spoiled by relatively clean air.
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08/02/2012 9:52:04 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
To: stuartcr
The temples in India are a whole different world. I have been to some ancient temples in India built of stone, completely dark from inside and only lit by oil lamps. The stone walls are black and dripping with amber, wax, bat guano and grease. There is a pyre of burning wood, butter,caramel sandalwood, incense, amber, camphor,dung, milk, honey, .....smell of lemongrass,marigold, fresh flowers along with rotting flowers. The smell can be overwhelming. It all sounds gross but its not.
Tantra resort and ashrams in US pay top dollar to create milder versions of that experience.
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08/02/2012 10:17:38 AM PDT
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ravager
To: stuartcr
We can recreate sanitized version of everything her in the US but just not the real experience of walking inside a temple that lasted for a few thousand years. India combines beauty and horror in ways no other country can.
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08/02/2012 10:29:01 AM PDT
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ravager
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