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1-India - July 30-31, 2012 (700 million people affected)The worst blackout in recent history occurred in northern India on two consecutive days in July 2012. The first blackout occurred on 30 July in the Northern grid, affecting 300 million people in nine states including India's capital region New Delhi.

A bigger blackout occurred the next day in the NEW grid which comprised the Northern, Western, Eastern and North-Eastern grids after the Northern grid was restored and synchronized with it. It affected a total of 700 million people across 20 Indian states.Overdrawing of electricity by certain states and weak inter-regional power transmission corridors were cited as the reasons behind the blackout.The incidents caused trains to fail and traffic lights to stop working, causing multiple traffic jams. Surgical operations were

cancelled and construction and mining work was halted across the northern region of the country.2-Java and Bali, Indonesia - 18 August 2005 (120 million people affected)A power outage occurred across the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali in August 2005, affecting 120 million people or nearly half of the country's population. The capital city Jakarta and its neighbouring province of Banten were completely blacked out, and parts of West Java, Central Java and East Java also suffered blackouts.The Java-Bali power grid, which had an installed capacity of 19,615MW, collapsed due to the failure in a 500kV transmission line between Cilegon and Saguling in West Java.Transport services were disrupted and

a number of international and domestic flights were delayed or cancelled due to the outage. The grid system was, however, fully restored within 24 hours.

3-Brazil and Paraguay - 10 November 2009 (67 million people affected)Major parts of Brazil and the whole of Paraguay were blacked out for two to four hours on 10 November 2009 when strong winds and heavy rains caused three transformers on a high-voltage transmission line to short circuit, affecting a total of 67 million people.

Six states in central and southern Brazil, including the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, were blacked out, which eventually led to the shutdown of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam after the lines connecting to the plant went down.The dam, which is situated on the Paraguay-Brazil border, stopped producing 18,000MW of electricity, affecting both countries. A number of car accidents were also reported during the blackout due to lack of street lighting.

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Top 3 worst blackouts in the I N S I D E T H I SN E W S L E T T E R :

History of electricity 2

Laugh Out Loud 2

Fun Facts of electricity 3

Welcome to Earth Hour 3

Let’s have Gallery Walk 4

“Life without ELECTRICITY

It’s beyond our imagination 4

Have a look on the safety

precautions 5

Refresh your mind with electric

games 5

Try it out 5

“ I F Y O U ' V E E V E R S AT WAT C H I N G A T H U N D E R S T O R M ,

W I T H M I G H T Y L I G H T N I N G B O LT S

D A R T I N G D O W N F R O M T H E S K Y,

Y O U ' L L H AV E S O M E I D E A O F T H E

P O W E R O F E L E C T R I C I T Y . ”

When electricity was invented?

Throughout the next hundred years, many inventors and scientists tried to find a way to use electrical power to make light. In 1879, the American inventor Thomas Edison was finally able to produce a reliable, long-lasting electric light-bulb in his laboratory.

When was electricity invented and used?

The world's first public electricity supply was provided in late 1881, when the streets

of the Surrey town of Godalming in the UK were lit with electric light. This system was powered from a water wheel on the River Wey, which drove a Siemens alternator that supplied a number of arc lamps within the town.

When did electricity become available?

Edison not only invented an incandescent electric light, but an electric lighting system that contained all the necessary elements to make the incandescent light safe, economical, and practical. Prior to 1879, direct current (DC) electricity had been used in lighting for the outdoors.

Laugh out Loud!!

“I’ve not failed 10,000

times. I’ve just found

10,000 ways that won’t work. Our greatest

weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way

to succeed is always to try

just one more time.”

~Thomas Elva Edison

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TRY IT OUT!

“If you apply an electric current to a pickle, the salt water in it acts as a conductor

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1. Reports of people receiving shocks from electric fish date back to ancient Egyptian texts of 2750BC.

2. Ancient Romans recommended touching electric fish to cure headache or gout.

3. Around 600BC, Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus became the first person to experiment on electricity obtained by rubbing pieces of amber.

4. First use of the word ‘electric’ in print was in 1646, from the Greek ‘elektron’ meaning ‘amber’.

5. Edison invented the electric chair not as a means of execution but 6. The first street in the world to be lit by electric light bulbs was Mosley

Fun Facts of Electricity…

Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1879.

6. The first four common domestic items to be powered by electricity were the sewing machine, fan, kettle and toaster.

7. In the Mexican city of Torreon, you can be fined £20 for using an electric razor while driving.

8. Iceland is the only country whose electricity supply comes entirely from renewable sources.

9. The electric eel can deliver shocks of up to 600 volts. It is not an eel but a type of knife fish.

10. First Use of ElectricityNo doubt, we are using electricity in present age for various purposes. However, the first use of electricity was only for

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lighting and also for domestic purpose nothing else.

11.  Bio-ElectricityThe natural use of electricity in human body was discovered by Luigi Galvani in 1791. He claimed that the medium used by nerve cells to pass signals from the muscles is also electricity.

12. First Bulb Thomas Edison was the man, who enlightened the whole world. He invented the first glowing light bulb in 1879

1-WWF’s Earth Hour is an annual global celebration where people switch off their lights for one hour to show they care about the future of our planet.

2-Earth Hour started in Sydney, Australia, in 2007. This event saw 2.2 million homes and

“Welcome to Earth Hour. Use your power to change Climate change”

businesses turn their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change that year. Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating in 2008.

3-"I Will if You Will" is a challenge-based campaign in which individuals, groups, businesses, and governments offer to do something helpful or entertaining in exchange for public commitment to green-minded actions and eco-sensitive products.

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for a few days and eggs as well. Vegetables and fruit were eaten fresh during the growing season, but things such as apples, pears could be dried for the winter.A type of refrigerator was known as far back as the time of the US Civil war; Louisa May Alcott refers to such an appliance in her novel "Little Women," set in the 1860's and 1870's. The next innovation (perhaps Alcott refers to) was the "icebox," basically a cabinet cooled by ice, which was delivered in blocks on a daily basis. It worked well for keeping food fresh for a relatively short period. Since air conditioners were unknown, people tried to build houses with high ceilings and large windows. In the Southern states,

For light, there was the sun during the day, and candles and oil lamps (fueled by kerosene) for after dark.In some European nations, there were stoves for heating in places other than the kitchen.Since there was no refrigerator, food preservation was a real problem. Meat was often smoked to keep it from spoiling, or dried (as in beef jerky), or preserved in salt. Dairy products were kept in cool places as could be found; if you happened to be lucky enough to have a spring on your property, a building called a spring house was often built over this. It provided a place that was cool enough to keep butter and milk fresh

"sleeping porches" were sometimes built onto houses.Clothing, bed linen, and everything else had to be hand laundered. This was done using a large wash pot over a fire to wash the clothes in, then another large pot (or two) for rinsing them. A scrub board was used to get the dirt out; harsh soap was used, and wrung out by hand. It was then hung up on a clothesline to dry, which were usually propped up with long forked sticks that were called wash props. This kept the weight of the wet clothes from causing the clothesline to sag (or even break), which of course meant that all the laundry had to be done over again. Those who could afford it often employed someone to do this for them, or, if they lived in a city, sent the clothing to a commercial laundry. So are you ready to live without ELECTRICITY? If no then, “SAVE ENERGY!!!”

“Life without ELECTRICITY, it’s beyond our imagination”

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