Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a dark reminder of the nation's inability to feed a growing hunger for energy as it strives to become an economic power.
While the midsummer outage was unique in its reach - it hit 370 million people, more than the population of the United States and Canada combined - its impact was softened by Indians' familiarity with almost daily blackouts of varying duration. Hospitals and major businesses have backup generators that seamlessly kick in during power cuts, and upscale homes are hooked to backup systems powered by truck batteries.
...is banal crap like this, from Daily Pundit's Bill Quick.
That’s more than the entire population of the U.S.
The article seems to indicate that the grid was quickly restored. I’m not so sure that would be the case if the U.S. grid ever went down this hard.
Yeah Bill, Flying Spaghetti Monster forbid we improve the nation's power grid there. I know, tax cuts will surely cure any infrastructure issues we have along these lines, if you'll excuse the pun. The invisible hand will get around to burying our major power lines any time now.
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