From the Wall Street Journal: India suffered the world's biggest-ever power outage Tuesday as
transmission networks serving areas inhabited by 680 million collapsed,
putting the nation's ramshackle infrastructure on stark display.
The grid failure, the second massive blackout in as many days,
happened around 1 p.m. local time and affected 18 states and two union
territories in north and eastern India, grinding trains across large
swaths of the country to a halt, forcing thousands of hospitals and
factories to operate on generators, temporarily stranding hundreds of
coal miners underground and causing losses to businesses estimated in
the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The government said power was about 80% restored in north India by late Tuesday evening.
Access to electricity is far from universal in India, and Indians are
accustomed to regular power outages in particular neighborhoods or
sections of cities. Many businesses and farmers see backup diesel-run
generators as an absolute necessity. Still, Tuesday's massive breakdown
was unprecedented, impacting a population larger than the U.S., Brazil
and Russia combined. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577560413178678898.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
Let's hope this cannot happen in the United states. If it does, it will paralyze us because our reliance on electricity..
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