India power grid collapse 620 million left without power

[ghi]

Last evening the news reported 300 milion affected, today is getting worst; they have 200 miners trapped underground  ; I'm thinking how dependent of electricity we are; if this scenario would happen here,  getting stuck in large cities at 5PM without traffic lights;   in winter time my gas powered furnace wouldn't work without electricity, water is powered by electric pumps also, fridge, internet......

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/world/asia/power-outages-hit-600-million-in-india.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/31/india-power-outage.html

[zack1234]

40 years ago a power cut in India would have not distrubed anyone

[MiloMorai]

Where were you in The Great Ice Storm of 1998?

Then there was the Northeast blackout of 2003 and before that the Northeast blackout of 1965.

[Slate]

  The storms here in the US have been intense this year with many temporary outages. I have my RV full of gas so I can run my generator if need be. We lost power a few weeks back and my Wife and I spent the night in the RV with the AC on because of the heat wave.

   Energy is king. Anyone interested in so called free energy check this site out: www.free-energy-info.co.uk/

[Tracerfi]

Where were you in The Great Ice Storm of 1998?

Then there was the Northeast blackout of 2003 and before that the Northeast blackout of 1965.

EDIT: never mind i was thinking of something else

[CAP1]

  The storms here in the US have been intense this year with many temporary outages. I have my RV full of gas so I can run my generator if need be. We lost power a few weeks back and my Wife and I spent the night in the RV with the AC on because of the heat wave.

   Energy is king. Anyone interested in so called free energy check this site out: www.free-energy-info.co.uk/

 i had heard that you guys lost power out that way. it still pisses me off, even though i didn't lose power this year. in this day and age of technology, there is absolutley ZERO excuse for customers to lose power for more than an hour or so....and i'm being generous with that. unless of course the power station or substation is under water.
 even when one mentions trees taking down wires, if you're old enough, you will remember when the power companies had crews out constantly, trimming things away from their power lines.

[SIM]

Cap,
 You have no clue. None,zip,nada,zero.

Stay with cars cause you have no idea what your talking about.

I've been a lineman for 23 years and while there is always room to improve, dealing with storms, outages, equipment failures will always take time to accomplish.

Your assumptions are based on ignorance.

Anytime you think you can do better, run down here. I've gotta set of hooks and all the 40-60 foot poles you could imagine. Climb a few in good weather and lets see what you can accomplish. Then do it in a storm.

[Midway]

The government runs India's power grid.  

 Nuff said.  

  Miners

[oboe]

Cap,
 You have no clue. None,zip,nada,zero.

Stay with cars cause you have no idea what your talking about.

I've been a lineman for 23 years and while there is always room to improve, dealing with storms, outages, equipment failures will always take time to accomplish.

Your assumptions are based on ignorance.

Anytime you think you can do better, run down here. I've gotta set of hooks and all the 40-60 foot poles you could imagine. Climb a few in good weather and lets see what you can accomplish. Then do it in a storm.

I don't think Cap was railing against linemen, but against power companies who may be skimping on numbers of crews and stalling on preventative maintenance to save money.  <S> for the work you do Sim, in all kinds of weather.   Tough and dangerous work under the best conditions.

[Slate]

  India because of false claims that coal is responsible for pollutants and global warming has cut back on coal. Several coal plants sit idle because of not having coal for fuel. If they were ready as a backup they would not have the problem they do.

[CAP1]

you apparently think what i said was/is a shot at you guys that actually do the work. it wasn't, and if i insulted you i apologize. i'm not gonna get into a pissing match with ya.

[CAP1]

I don't think Cap was railing against linemen, but against power companies who may be skimping on numbers of crews and stalling on preventative maintenance to save money.  <S> for the work you do Sim, in all kinds of weather.   Tough and dangerous work under the best conditions.

 you nailed it sir.

[GScholz]

You don't put your power lines into the ground these days?

[Pigslilspaz]

Where were you in The Great Ice Storm of 1998?

In 1st grade in New Hampshire.

I loved not going to school and building a massive snow fort.

[smoe]

What may be funny about this article is that half of that number (610 million) may never have had power to begin with.