[Reader-list] ON INVERTORS AND GENERATORS: comments welcome.

[subhrodip sengupta]

 The fuel and green-conscious Government says use invertors instead of generators. In metro etc this notion is spreading. I would like to ask which is better? Generator makes power consumption unsubsidised. Invertor keeps subsidy. So called sine-wave invertors are not within reach of everybody. Power cuts are caused due to unmanagable loads. Invertors DO NOT generate electricity. And when one can switch to very different alternatives and work style specially during high load times, but does not all suffer. But thanks to technology all do not suffer. Imagine everybody charging invertors. Long masssive power cuts. A fixed percentage does. Time increases marginally within  discharge time and those who cannot afford pay for it. 
It is not that we are using hydal, wave power, wind or neuclear power to a great extent. Thermal power costs as much. So why no generators? Should those having invertors should be discouraged instead? So next time you wanna buy a invertor for your TV set, AC Heaters etc, look outside at the slum outside*,and imagine a child studying there, think of his future as an adult. . . . 






*(hopefully not wiped away,may be some power is stolen, but thats not their but politician's interest of not giving connections, seen police ignoring it?)


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