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Posted on 01/24/2023 11:28:46 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
The vast majority of the population of Pakistan – about 220 million of 240 million people – was left without electricity on Monday after a “widespread breakdown in the power system,” according to the Ministry of Energy.
Pakistan is one of the world’s most densely populated countries and boasts a stable of six operable nuclear reactors in addition to a power grid largely supplied by coal and other fossil fuels. It experiences routine regional blackouts, particularly in more remote regions, but Monday’s total collapse presents a new level of severity in infrastructure malfunction.
The blackout, which persisted in much of the country at press time on Tuesday, poses a new challenge for establishment Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who took over after the ouster of popular radical Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan, a proponent of global blasphemy laws who has publicly praised Osama bin Laden as a martyr, remains popular in Pakistan and is currently on a nationwide tour demanding new elections that could potentially restore him to power. Khan survived an assassination attempt in November but was back on tour giving anti-Sharif speeches, in a wheelchair, the next day.
According to Pakistan’s Energy Ministry, a “widespread breakdown” caused by unknown circumstances occurred at 7:34 a.m. local time on Monday.
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“In winter, the demand for electricity reduces nationwide, hence, as an economic measure, we temporarily close down our power generation systems at night,” Dastgir said. “However, when the systems were turned on in the morning today, frequency variation and voltage fluctuation was observed in the south of the country […] somewhere between Dadu and Jamshoro […] because of which power generating units shut down one by one.”
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How does a nuclear energy source “collapse” ?
EV owners are deeply saddened....
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It has already started with slowly seeping in public school indoctrinators.
“was left without electricity”
“was” should be “were”.
LOL.
And the Left wants Americans to rely on only one energy source? No thanks.
Transformers and switching stations magically go offline, who knows how that works.
I started another thread about the NYSE halting trading today on dozens of stocks when the market opened this morning, a few days ago the ATC went down and the FAA order a ground stop nationwide for the first time since 9/11.
I’m not saying they are all connected but remember the WEF recently had a “war game” on a worldwide major cyber attack, the last time they did this was holding a war game on a major worldwide pandemic a few months before a worldwide pandemic supposedly happened.
Sabotage
200 million people sucked it dry?
That is about half the population of Pakistan.
Like what happened to Venezuela’s oil industry in 2014. The new Maduro government sought complete power over the industry and drove out all the executives, managers, workers with experience and skill. He promoted loyalist with zero knowledge or training and the outcome was exactly what you expect. Production collapsed, machinery was not maintained, worksite injury and death skyrocketed. They killed the golden goose.
The UN should deem Pakistan as part of India
It would be the best thing for the world, and indeed, for Pakistan
Nuclear energy doesn’t mean anything when your electrical
grid is like one giant octopus outlet.
How did these 220 million of 240 million people find out ?
I am not picking on a simple poster. And I make plenty of mistakes myself. But when the opening sentence of a news organization article starts with a glaring error in the first sentence, that stops a reader in their tracks then we have a problem. Not only did the author make a glaring mistake, but it got by their editors as well. Now if you had made that mistake then I would have just moved on without comment. I am no English major, and I make a ton of mistakes. But I think that I learned this lesson prior to being school age.
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