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phantom power

(25,966 posts) Tue Jul 31, 2012, 12:57 PM Jul 2012

By the by, more than twice the population of the United States lost power today in India

NEW DELHI--Much of India's electricity supply network collapsed Tuesday in the country's second major outage in two days, affecting more than 680 million people—double the population of the U.S.—and causing business losses estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577560413178678898.html

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By the by, more than twice the population of the United States lost power today in India (Original Post) phantom power Jul 2012 OP

Original reports said 300 million OnlinePoker Jul 2012 #1

My understanding is that different parts of the grid are hosing each other XemaSab Jul 2012 #2

There were two blackouts - yesterday ~300 million, today ~600 million phantom power Jul 2012 #3

Ah...now I understand. Thanks. n/t OnlinePoker Jul 2012 #4

OnlinePoker

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1. Original reports said 300 million

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Tue Jul 31, 2012, 06:02 PM

Jul 2012

Then I heard 378 million. Now 680 million. It's hard to know whose statistics are right. I wonder if there will be a baby boom 9 months from now in India?