[Gllug] Major power cuts in North America

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> Simon Morris <smorris at batesuk.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 21:50, Chris Bell wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >    The BBC is reporting massive unexplained power cuts throughout USA and
> > > Canada now.
> > 
> > Just pinged our servers in Manhatten and their up and OK. 
> 
> Hmm. Reminds me of the figures for power consumption:
> The US apparently uses 25% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> consumption.

That is what the row over the kyoto agreement is.
5% of the world's population using 25% of the world's energy.
Bush stopped all of the kyoto negotiation.

And they still can't understand why some people don't like them.

> The US military apparently uses 6% of the world's total "fuel-sourced" power
> consumption.

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