10% of the world lost electrical power today.

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31 Jul 2012, 6:15 pm

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31 Jul 2012, 8:59 pm

I am working in India. I used to work in South India and now I am about to start job in North India. I have not arrived there yet. So I am really looking forward to the adventure of not having electrticity. Adventures like that usually get me really excited.

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31 Jul 2012, 9:16 pm

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I hope you are not in computer related fields...they are on a forced holiday now.

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31 Jul 2012, 9:41 pm

I wasn't aware that the majority of people in India had power?

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01 Aug 2012, 1:09 am

John_Browning wrote:

I wasn't aware that the majority of people in India had power?

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01 Aug 2012, 9:54 am

John_Browning wrote:

I wasn't aware that the majority of people in India had power?

About two thirds. But it is not reliable power. Lots of brown outs, rolling black outs and just plain old power failures.

Power is government owned or regulated in India, and India has a very inefficient and incompetent government. Which is rather too bad, since there are many top notch Indian business people, industrialists and technicians. Some of the best software workers in the world are Indian.

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01 Aug 2012, 12:11 pm

twice the population of the US lost their power and regained it. that was a super job on the part of the army of electrical workers to accomplish such a huge repair in such a short time. i wonder how many hundred thousand [million?] workers it took to do it?

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01 Aug 2012, 1:20 pm

You should see the lunch delivery system there, individual houses send lunch to individual family members at work, and it's all done by most illiterate men on bicycles.

http://www.aptworldwide.org/IntlCatalog ... es&CartID=

Or just search for "lunch delivery in india"

They've got the 'We can do it" spirit.

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01 Aug 2012, 1:21 pm

More accurately, they lost state supplied power.

And being used to brownouts, most businesses switched over to their generators.

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01 Aug 2012, 1:21 pm

visagrunt wrote:

More accurately, they lost state supplied power.

And being used to brownouts, most businesses switched over to their generators.

Mine sounds scarier.

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01 Aug 2012, 2:50 pm

ruveyn wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

I wasn't aware that the majority of people in India had power?

It reminds me of Iraq, Iran and many areas in Africa, where the only power they get is from generators. Iran is losing money on their oil exports due to the fact they must import it back as refined product to fuel their generators. Most of the time, they only get 4-6 hours a day to use electricity. It's insane to think that in the 21st Century, people are still living in such conditions.

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01 Aug 2012, 4:03 pm

auntblabby wrote:

twice the population of the US lost their power and regained it. that was a super job on the part of the army of electrical workers to accomplish such a huge repair in such a short time.

i wonder how many hundred thousand [million?] workers it took to do it?

That was a temporary loss of power.

The U.S. is not (yet) plagued with chronic brownouts and blackouts.

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04 Aug 2012, 10:39 am

CyborgUprising wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

I wasn't aware that the majority of people in India had power?

All they have to do is free up their economy and let a market based sector determine most of the investment and operating decisions. The most advance economies in the world are mixed economies with a very significant market based sector. Even the Scandinavian countries which the Socialists like to brag about are mostly owned and operated by private firms.

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04 Aug 2012, 7:09 pm

ruveyn wrote:

About two thirds. But it is not reliable power. Lots of brown outs, rolling black outs and just plain old power failures.

In the mmorpg I play I used to have a friend that lived in India and lots of times they had to stop playing for a rolling blackout.

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