Second day of black-outs leaves nearly 10 percent of humanity without power

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Second day of black-outs leaves nearly 10 percent of humanity without power

This is not a repeat from yesterday . It is worse. For the second day in a row, power consumption in India vastly exceeded available supply, due in part to high temperatures. The result: grid failure that first struck the northern part of the country — which had the same issue yesterday — then, the eastern. Reuters suggests that the outage affected 670 million people — 9.5 percent of all people on Earth. For nearly four hours, power and transportation systems in the nation’s capital were at a standstill, forcing hospitals and “VIP zones” to rely on generator backups . From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Hundreds of trains stalled across the country and traffic lights went out, causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi. Electric crematoria stopped operating, some with bodies half burnt, power officials said. Emergency workers rushed generators to coal mines to rescue mine...

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Get used to this. We do not have an unlimited supply of energy underground. Look to the air instead! [link]
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@TrewhittTweets it's obviously inherent to equation-but bottom line: not enough coal to generate kW in this climate [link]
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