Postcards From A Green Energy Future

What 670 Million People Without Power Look Like

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On the bright side just think how small their carbon footprint is.
You just know there are people on the left cheering this and wondering how they could do it here.

India could have easily avoided this public disaster had they subsidized wind and solar power. India is a huge country, with more than ample space for solar power collectors (for use when it’s daytime and not raining) and windmill farms (when the wind is blowing).
Obama should use this to show us the folly of not using low energy-density power in the U.S.
/sarc off

“What time is it”
‘Dark Thirty’
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Nine months from now India’s population will increase by 300 million.
Sure to
piss off the greenish, environmental loons.

As TransAlta loses 775 million last year, I can’t help wonder how much of that loss was sucked up by the whirling blades of environMENTALism, well here is the end game. All the idiots that don’t play with their own money, only corporate money, have bought into the lies and deceit from the “greenthiefs”, here is the reason that all the Chicken Little Suzukis and Gores/ Hansen/ Manns should be locked up for fraud, this is what is coming to a town near you if this stupidity is not stopped. I’ll bet that great global warming guru, Mahesh Yogi Pauchari over there in India has a big assed diesel generator powering his complex though.

When I call Microsoft it will be a girl from California,
probably put me on hold.

It seems only a decade or so ago that India’s fascists and other assorted anti western loons went amok
and forced the government to cancel plans for the crash program construction of privately financed and
owned coal and gas fired power plants.
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With India off line, thd tele-marketer calls have virtually stopped at my house.

Infrastructures worldwide are increasingly hanging on by their fingernails.
Expect more of this.

Oh how green is their blackout.

One wonders what would happen in the US if the entire country was without electrcity for even just one hour.
A good reason to have a gun should you happen to live in a culturally-enriched urban environment.

Ah yes, no more calls from “Steve” with the Indian accent.

Goes to show what happens when a power system is run by politicians and engineers, instead of by engineers alone.

Mississauga Matt comments:
“A good reason to have a gun should you happen to live in a culturally-enriched urban environment.”
Let’s put this in perspective a bit…. Consider a longer power outage, or other large-scale civil debacle. You can bank on the Occupy mindset to want to occupy what you have in order to get what they don’t, all perfectly acceptable to them… because, after all, you’re the 1% now.
Got water? You’re a 1%’er. Got food? You should share. Got anything else they want?? They’ll TAKE it. Those same people won’t hesitate to take what you’ve got and it’s easily justified.
Believe me, if they can’t take it easily, they won’t hesitate to burn you out. Fortunately, it’ll take a lot more than a few hours of no power before we start to crumble to that level. I’d love to hear more of the inside stories on how India did during their training episode.

Takeaway quote: “..leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity.”
Well, duh.

‘I’ falling of the BRIC.

Good link in the comments.
http://www.space.com/16818-solar-flare-geomagnetic-storm-forecast.html
Gingrich has been on this issue for a while, and he is correct of course; but we won’t pay attention until it bites us in the backside. The leftists will continue to bray that he is an alarmist. Our (U.S. / Canada)power-grid is vulnerable, we use 3x the amount of power as India and we are 100x more dependent upon it. What happened in India should be a wake-up call…just like “Steve” from India… no call at all.

Missi Matt:
Would that be “Steve Barnes” with the Indian accent calling?
But seriously – what do those pictures show that represents the blackout? You could have taken those any day in India – massive traffic jams, massive amounts of people waiting for a train/bus, massive amounts of people standing outside buildings, massive amounts of people breathing air.. you get my drift.
As for the last photo, I don’t know if that’s situation normal or not, never having set foot in any Muslim institution, but given that religion’s seeming fear of all that’s modern, it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to find out they ban electric lights as the product of Christians, and no doubt, Jooos. Since they seem to keep their followers in the dark in many ways, why not do it literally as well?

India? I thought I was looking at pictures taken along the King George Highway in Surrey BC.

India? I thought that was the Toronto blackout in 2003.
Lets not be too snarky eh? Our grid could crash pretty much any time these days. Given the windmills I’m surprised it hasn’t crashed already. I suspect they haven’t got many of them physically hooked up to the grid, just spinning in the wind to make Duhlton look all green and stuff.

It’s enough to make Balwinder Singh the blues.

tom@drum at August 1, 2012 9:05 AM
“With India off line, thd tele-marketer calls have virtually stopped at my house.”
No doubt….so that’s why it’s so peaceful and tranquil…..

Phantom, if they’re just spinning, they’re consuming electricity, not producing it. One of the dirty little secrets about wind turbines is they need an outside grid connection to supply them with excitation current for the conversion equipment.

cgh
“Phantom, if they’re just spinning, they’re consuming electricity, not producing it. One of the dirty little secrets about wind turbines is they need an outside grid connection to supply them with excitation current for the conversion equipment.”
Yep just like the alternator on yer car….dead battery = no charging…..ya gotta give if ya wanna get….

Civilization is about infrastructure, in the same manner warfare is about logistics. Old grid components hasten the failure of the system and can only be fixed with lots of money. Having wasted a lot of money of alternative energy, there is no cash (though lots of credit available) nor public will to spend what is needed. Reducing demand is an option but very unlikely, given a growing economy and population.
And that’s here in Saskatchewan, India is screwed.

Dana, no they’re not. India has been growing at more than 6% GDP. That’s lots of economic strength to invest in significant upgrades to their infrastructure over time. The principal problem India has is not shortage of capital but a huge, inefficient and sometimes corrupt bureaucracy and a heap of rules that block foreign investment. These things are subject to change if the Indian government wants it to change.

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