pargofan t1_j5l2dty wrote on January 23, 2023 at 7:41 PM

Reply to comment by UnusedCandidate in Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage | CNN Business by calbert1735

Thanks for looking into it. Sounds temporary but amazing how it affected so many at once.

As an American, it's unreal to think of 220 million people suddenly losing electricity all at once.

UnusedCandidate t1_j5l3dud wrote on January 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Seems fairly common. There's a tight Forex squeeze, Pakistan has no fuel resources of its own. It all culminates to this. There's also a third theory that a Chinese made grid control system failed, leading to this.

FormidableFloof t1_j5m0da4 wrote on January 23, 2023 at 11:18 PM

Why would they do that? It's not like I don't know they are sabotaging the world on many levels, but still, what would be the motive?

UnusedCandidate t1_j5mrc13 wrote on January 24, 2023 at 2:32 AM

Won't be intentional. The part just failed.

Amorougen t1_j5mnq96 wrote on January 24, 2023 at 2:06 AM

How many people in the US lost power in 2003? Answer: 50 million. Can't remember duration, but some sites claim more than a day. Seems to me it was more than that in the Detroit area. I know the auto industry shut down, and cellular towers went dark. Good old POTS telephones worked though - powered off batteries (big batteries and lots of them). No comparison to what is happening to Pakistan however.