Here's a quick little news flash...
The Nepal Electricity Authority has decided on a heavier load-shedding schedule. Load-shedding is a foreign idea to the States. We have enough electricity (amazingly enough). Here, however, the electricity is hydro. No rain in winter = less electricity production = shutting down the power for hours a day (called load-shedding). It was only 6 hours a day, three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. Now they have raised it to 10 hours a day. What's on my Christmas list? A battery back-up.
You can read the article for yourself HERE.
3 comments:
Very interesting. Did you find it easy to adapt to the limits on electricity? So many times I will have the radio going or the TV in the background while doing something entirely different.
And, I would think that one could find much more productive ways to spend time than tethered to a computer writing a blog, ... wait a minute...
It really has been a problem so far...we have a battery back-up for the lights so I at least have a light at night. My laptop has generally lasted as long as I don't constantly use it. But now that its ten hours a day I'll have to get a backup just for my laptop. When I lived in Honduras they would do random brown-outs. You get used to it. And they at least have a set schedule they follow here. And amazingly adhere to it!
I just got my electric bill and aparently I am using enough for both of us :)
ps. my word verification this time is teats, uh, that's not an appropriate word verification word.
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