370 Million without power in India - Page 1

Wow!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_INDIA_POWER_OUTAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-30-08-12-48

  The most valuable piece of Equipment I own is a GENERATOR that my son wired to be turned on when the power fails.

  Last week our Power was off for 30  hours and it was in the 90 that day and night so we pushed a button and on it came..OF course it runs on gasoline and the price for that thirty hours was not cheapl

 I would everyone would invest in a generator to run home at least one /110 window A/c unit and their refridgerators and lights and a few conviences..You have to keep a large supply of gas ready to  have to run it but anything to keep cool and not be in danger of losing your life.
Glad I live in AMerica

I have two window units installed in two rooms on purpose in case of power failure.. as you cannot run 220 central a/c on a generator with all the other things needed and are as  important..Some friends used a portable A/c unit for their travel trailer  and just brought it inside for the power failure.

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I still think it's crazy how dependent we are on electricity. We have no choice now of course, but to think....a couple of hundred years ago and back.....they lived just fine without it since the beginning of time, heat, cold, etc, they made it.  I could only imagine if the entire US electricity was out for a few weeks, what it would do to everyone.  Or if it somehow "could" be shut off by terrorist, that would be a huge way to destroy America on many levels.

India shut down coal production, and now 1/10 of the world is out of power.

GSDGuy, about being people getting along without elec a couple hundred years ago....It hasn't been THAT long ago that people were not dependent upon it for every day life. We have a neighbor here who tell s of when he was a kid, in winter, they would butcher a beef and hang it in the shed..no electric, and cut the portion for each meal as needed until it was gone. They didn't even have elec, but had an icebox ( that's what we called a refrigerator, even when I was a kid). But,as he said, when he was a kid, Winters were a lot colder than now. I'm lucky any more if there's enough consecutive cold days in winter to even be able to butcher a goat to eat without flies and yellow jackets coming out and getting their share. The neighbor still lives where he was born, the cabin he was actually born in is kept in good repair and still on his family land, he is only about seventy now. So you can see that climate change has a lot to do with dependency on power. Summers didn't used to be so danged hot that you're in danger of dying without AC.

"Or if it somehow could be shut off by terrorist". Look up cyberwars. Some scary stuff.

Ah, joanro, good point about the summers. I haven't been around on this world "too long" lol.  I do know this spring was ridiculously hot though, hotter than our summer is ever suppose to get. Many 100-110 degree days here in the spring it seemed like, and even our winter.....we had literally 1 tenth an inch of snow the entire winter......that that was from three total snows combined. Our winter was very spring like here....which felt great.....but the amount of bugs we have now is crazy because of that. I honestly don't know what "winter" really is living in the part of middle TN I'm in. Every time snow dips down into TN it is just above our county.....or way off to the east where the mountains are. We might average a few inches of snow for an entire winter at the most here.  I'm kind of thankful for that though because my lungs don't handle cold weather too well. I have so much difficulty breathing, like when I went to Indiana to visit during a cold snap they had. Not one day was it above 2 degrees F for the high.  I don't mind heat too much other than the bugs. With all that said, I do think people back before all of the a/c units and what not were around.....probably could handle heat better than we can regardless. We as in people in general.  They weren't use to staying in a nice a/c cooled room all the time, or working in air conditioned offices. It hits 90 F and people act like they're all going to die.   I'll look up cyberwars and see.  I've always wandered if what I mentioned was possible, that would be absolutely crazy and scary if something like that did happen though.

GSDguy, when it hits ninety people act like their going to die...that's because we haven't had time yet to adapt to such heat in temperate zones. When I was a kid, I remember "heat wave" in Chicago and NY that was killer....it was in the nineties. People didn't have AC 'cause they didn't need it. I grew up in Key Largo and So Miami, Fl. Never saw an air conditioner 'til my foster mother had one installed..... They cut a hole in the wall a put this big ol thing in it. That was around 1967 . Never needed one, nobody had them and that one hardly ever got turned on. In school we had big, occillating fan standing in a comer of the room. Don't mean to sound little house on the prairie-ish, but summers just weren't hot. I remember winter in So Miami when the water in the bird bath froze,that was novel !

http://www.biharprabha.com/2011/04/coal-shortage-may-hurt-india-power-production/
coal production may hit india power production.... april 2011 - it was predicted....

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/world/asia/india-blackout/index.html
not enough power generation to meet demand..... nothing was done and it happened....