Posts Tagged ‘nuclear’

10 hours straight without electricity: nuclear power to the rescue?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

The GLP cubicle

Well, almost 10 hours…

5 days after the last blackout, Sokaraja got its turn again. They cut the powers off at around 7:24.

I needed to write using my laptop, so I went along my parents to Purwokerto and stayed at GLP for the day (pictured above). When I arrived back home, the lights were still off. It went back to normal operation on around 17:00.

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Outage again - Now they do it in the night

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Candle and crepe in an electricity outage at the night, Sokaraja Tengah

In this hard times I call “the Indonesian power crisis of 2008″, PLN once again shut the electricity off. But this day, they did it starting from around 17:20! It’s now 18:12, and Sokaraja Tengah is still pitch black. Luckily my laptop has batteries and my modem can live off the UPS.

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PLN did it again: no electricity

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah

Not even a week after the last outage, my house at Sokaraja Tengah, Purwokerto went dark again! This time the lights went off at around 8:30.

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