First thing today we reported that India just suffered what may have been the biggest blackout in history, after half of the country's population of 1.2 billion, or just under 700 million was without power, as the electric grid of more than a dozen states suffered an epic collapse. Below we shares some pictures courtesy of Times of India giving some sense of what it means for two Americas worth of people to live without electricity indefinitely. Of note: the calm, peace and order despite the epic traffic jams and crowds. One wonders what would happen in the US if the entire country was without electrcity for even just one hour. Finally, one wonders what the impact to the Indian, Asian, and Global economy will be as a result of the complete halt that at least half of India – one of the world's core marginal economies – has ground to do.
India’s northwestern boundary with neighboring Pakistan is so brightly lit that the thin orange line tracing its path can be seen from space. Photo: NASA/EO
A road is packed in heavy traffics following power outage and rains in the central part of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. India's energy crisis spread over half the country Tuesday when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving 600 million people without power in one of the world's biggest-ever blackouts. Traffic lights went out across New Delhi
Heavy traffic moves along a busy road as it rains during a power-cut at the toll-gates at Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi July 31, 2012. Grid failure hit India for a second day on Tuesday, cutting power to hundreds of millions of people in the populous northern and eastern states including the capital Delhi and major cities such as Kolkata.
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Soon it will be just like that, right here.
The US grid is going to start shutting down thanks to Uncle O.
I’m from India, anyways, just like the rest of the world, we were not going to do anything substantial to uplift humanity, all we would have had done even with electricity is to cheat, deceit, lie and back stab the fellow Indians.
I don’t see what worse we could have done without power, when we have already done worse with power.
What was the CAUSE of such a black out… still haven’t heard?
It cannot be that this is a “grid” issue, at least based on what little information is available. Anon, do you know if the grid for all those states is a connected whole? This just sounds fishy as all get out… Why the blackout of information, for example? Do you have relatives in India? What are they saying? Are there any alternative theories other than infrastructure failure due to age? Are there ANY facts out there? Lady J, we’re not interested in your fund raising for that charlatan cult leader. Go shake your tambourine somewhere else. Anon, Uncle O didn’t create the aged US Grid system…like he said, the government did! lol BUT he may take it down on purpose…. OR some other government may… After he’s shut down all the coal fired plants…
This it the future of the USA and the rest of the industrialized world as energy becomes less and less available to fuel the industrial age.
Wake up and smell the coffee. America will have the same in the next several months. Thanks to obummer and his $olar company kickbacks.
they did pretty good to get that ramshackle system up and running again within a day..
I truly will miss the fan forced furnace and the air conditioning. The rest of it well… it could get interesting when people run out of money for sure.
Keep the power off so we can get our jobs back. Better, pull this stunt in Communist China.
Blessed be the white cow, Apu!
We should long for the Confederated States of America. The country that was suppose to be.
wow
Just a training exercise to see how well a social engineered sociaty responds to a controlled shutdown of the masses. Behave yourselves and Monsanto might give you some food and water.
I guess this means that India is no longer in the running for the currency standard to replace the dollar.
There needs to be competition in the electricity market. Monopolies breed weakness, just like incest. This applies to India and America.
We had a little lightening storm last month that shut down power for 5 Million people on the East Coast for a week. You can’t switch providers. You can’t give you money to somebody that’s less incompetent. It makes you realize how precariously close to the abyss western and eastern civilization actually is.