Banda, India shuts down at 10 am as temps breach 48 degrees C (118.4 F). At 44 substations across Banda, staff continuously pour water on over 1,379 transformers after several units malfunctioned due to extreme temperatures.
Posted by Lighting@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 49 comments
boogerdark30@reddit
I raise my glass to The Children of Kali in moments like this
LSM_FIRE@reddit
KSR? 😁
elleandbea@reddit
The first chapter of this book is BLEAK. I am on chapter 8. Idk if I can do it.
dazyn@reddit
keep going! it gets more hopeful. but But almost like in a fairy tale sort of way
SrslyBadDad@reddit
It is a fairy tale. It’s just too optimistic that the oil industry will stop pushing FUD and their agenda through the politicians that they own.
spacedoutmachinist@reddit
Im listening to this book right now. I have a feeling the super El Niño is going to cause some serious mayhem this year.
val_kaye@reddit
Me too! I've been listening to it while cleaning and gardening. It's keeping me motivated to garden.
Great-Help7394@reddit
When I was a teenager I read a book by Kurzweil called "Transcend", basically teaching you how to naturally extend your lifespan and improve your quality of life.
I actually agree with most of his advice in the book. But what amazes me about this book published in 2009 is one piece of advice he gave - don't go outside between the hours of 10am and 2pm. That is when the sun is bombarding the planet with radiation.
And now, almost 20 years later, I'm seeing headlines that say between 10 and 2 - just try not to exist. Shade, rest, sunscreen - won't help anymore.
I'm a pessimist and even I'm shocked by how quickly things have deteriorated.
unseemly_turbidity@reddit
That would be terrible advice for those of us in northern Europe. We wouldn't see the sun for about 4 months at a time, and we already have to take vitamin D supplements.
Great-Help7394@reddit
If you are white you need Vitamin D supplements regardless. The trade off is obvious - supplements or cancer.
The book was directed at an American audience but I get your point.
daviddjg0033@reddit
summers would be better spent if we worked nights. the doctor appointment in the morning ok. siestas are a thing for a reason. i am not shocked how things have deteriorated. 20y ago Al Gore talked about weighted dice. Analogy is that we are loading the dice towards snake eyes and as time goes by that weightedness increases. so the likelihood of rolling seven (1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2, and 6+1) which normally is the most rolled number in unweighted dice but with each molecule of co2, ch4, nox, sf6-like minus aerosols becomes less likely.
I am still shocked at the reaction of the world. Solar can prevent the acceleration of co2 minus the coal and fossil fuels made to create solar.
Gore's movie 20y ago was too late to prevent those accelerating-load dice from rolling snake eyes today. The co2 alone since Gore's movie accelerated feedback loops like ecosystems becoming net carbon emitters.
we have not been able to stress the country wide adoption of green spaces to reduce heat island effects but again, these green spaces can and will turn flammable over 2C.
PlutoJones42@reddit
My lord 118? That’s brutal
GalaxyPatio@reddit
It got to 119 in Vegas two years ago. Stepping outside my feet started to sweat and my eyes felt dry immediately.
GoreSeeker@reddit
Looks like in dry heat, about 122 F is about the upper limit before bad things start happening, so very close to that.
Wolfgung@reddit
I have personally experience this temperature, we knocked off work and went back into airconditioning after 2 hours. It's not even the temp but to experience the hot wind feels like someone pointing hair dryer on high heat directly in your face. Completely steels all your moisture from any exposed skin.
smackson@reddit
Underground is cooler.
For a few years.
snowlights@reddit
I saw temps around this during the PNW heat dome. It was fucking horrible, I kept worrying about what would happen if my air conditioner at home broke. I was working outside that week and on the third day I said no, I'm not going back out until it cools down. The entire palms of my hands peeled from blisters.
HitIerWasWrong@reddit
I'm pretty sure someone mentioned a nocturnal society that slept in cooled bags during the day from some novel.
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
I’ve also experienced these temperatures and while they are easily survivable if you take precautions it is just impossible to do any kind of real work in those temperatures. Almost too hot to move and definitely too hot to think! 🥵
IncubusDarkness@reddit
Yeah it got to like 46° when I was in Las Vegas one summer, literally like sitting in front of an open oven set to 500 but surrounding your entire body
redditmodsRrussians@reddit
The poor wildlife too. So much of the ecology is fucked
mellbs@reddit
Well, it has begun. Everything else is child's play
RunYouFoulBeast@reddit
Trump disagree! The biggest child in town .
Lighting@reddit (OP)
Submission Statement: Years ago India had the option of going with Solar ... or mining and going for coal. They chose ... poorly. Now mining is decimating forests which would have created cooling, solar panels are not there which would have helped with cooling, and dust from mining is making life miserable. Many claim it is corruption from billionaires paying Indian leaders to make these bad decisions. Who knows? The fact is that mining and refusing to go solar has led to what seems to be a direct run toward economic and environmental collapse in what would have been one of the most promising areas for solar infrastructure. Wasted.
Filias9@reddit
They are doing solar too, but amount of coal is staggering "we need industrialization too, excuse". They can skip fossil fuels and go all in on renewables and nuclear, which is the future. Invest and develop new tech... but no. Let's open new coal mines.
India is victim it's wrong doing.
Hinin@reddit
60° in 5 years ?
DissedFunction@reddit
I imagine the humidity is high as well?
Iznik@reddit
Seemingly only 20%.
urlach3r@reddit
Wet bulb event when? I mean, that temp is horrific.
happypawn@reddit
time to move outta Banda /s
seriously this is tragic for those who live there, i’d be looking to move immediately
Far_Out_6and_2@reddit
Oh well just have to move on
jbond23@reddit
We need a good, daily max, wet bulb temperature, map for SE Asia. Anyone got one?
I imagine several areas are getting close to the Black Flag, 35C WBT, survivability limit.
jykke@reddit
For a healthy person sitting completely still in the shade, at wet-bulb temperature of 31 °C (s)he would just die in some hours. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought
keynoko@reddit
Is this a harbinger for what summer will look like in the States?
FistofK0nshu@reddit
tons of ski resorts in CA are already closed
Night_0dot0_Owl@reddit
Thanks fuck that i dont live there. Thanks fuck!
Middle_Manager_Karen@reddit
Transformers will be the death of us. Few understand how slow they are to replace when they get destroyed. Global bottlenecks in production and increasing rate of destruction because of hurricanes, tornadoes, and conflict.
Adding overheating like this is not a good mix.
I give it 5 years before countries start refusing to export rare earth inputs to critical components like transformers and air conditioning.
China is so smart.
Bipogram@reddit
Basic transformers are little more than copper wires and laminations of iron.
Granted, fancy-pants phase-controlling devices are considerably more than that, but a step-up/down transformer would be recognized by Michael Faraday.
Temporary_Second3290@reddit
Holy fuck.
cRaZyDaVe23@reddit
nnnNNNOOOOOooOOOOoOOOOhhhhh it's not real cuz climate change exacerbated in a fucking micro scale isn't real.
CyroSwitchBlade@reddit
pouring water onto electrical equipment seems unsafe : /
Im_Ur_Huckleberry77@reddit
Not when the water evaporates before hitting the power source.
donthaveaclu@reddit
And remember at 45.C initial stages of protein coagulation begins and I am in India
SplashTarget@reddit
Well chasing after non-stop economic expansion globally and nationally is going to have some bad results
the_pwnererXx@reddit
Collapse doesn't happen in the first world, it happens in the third. The first world can finance solutions to a lot of doomer problems: food, electricity, air. India cannot
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Lighting:
Submission Statement: Years ago India had the option of going with Solar ... or mining and going for coal. They chose ... poorly. Now mining is decimating forests which would have created cooling, solar panels are not there which would have helped with cooling, and dust from mining is making life miserable. Many claim it is corruption from billionaires paying Indian leaders to make these bad decisions. Who knows? The fact is that mining and refusing to go solar has led to what seems to be a direct run toward economic and environmental collapse in what would have been one of the most promising areas for solar infrastructure. Wasted.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1tj9fue/banda_india_shuts_down_at_10_am_as_temps_breach/omzwtnq/
beekermc@reddit
The thing about a transformer failing is there is never a transformer waiting to replace it.
Sea_Sheepherder_2234@reddit
GG it was nice knowing yall
AdiKadiAdi@reddit
It's afoot