why there is shortage of power supply in our country though we have huge amount of natural and coal resources?
824970
We can have abundant power provided politician management is honest. With corrupt politicians you can never improve any thing. don't you know that the chief minister of Maharashtra suspended one electricity board engineer for cutting of his power supply for non payment of electrical bill?\nProbably that engineer will suffer for rest of his life time. \nI am very eager to hear from him or some one else as to what is his fate today?
334343
perhaps China just need oil for its own survival.\nIt is better to go for alternative source of energy and reduce wastage of energy.
627569
It's a simple matter of adding up the power required by everything, EVERYTHING, you want connect to your supply.\n\nMachines, tools, heating, cooling/air conditioning, ventilation fans, lighting, computers, printers, copiers, telephones, fax machines, answering machines, refirgerators, freezers, water coolers, security devices, etc, etc, etc.\n\nChoose a generator with a capacity at least a bit greater than your total load, but preferably quite a bit more to allow for future load increase.
1104713
Because we still have plenty of coal, oil, and nuclear power supplies and will continue to use these until the world's entire infrastructure changes.  Oil will surely continue to used until every last drop is gone, and the world is forced to use something else.
173285
It is constantly renewable.  There is a huge amount of it so once the technology is developed it should be produced quite inexpensively.  It is dependable.
544003
First of all, I believe you mean "conventional" resources. Coal, along with oil, peat, wood and natural gas is a conventional energy resource. These are all classified as fossil fuels. They are made up of the remains of once living matter. For the present, they are in plentiful supply. However, as with all things on and in this planet, they are NOT in INFINATE supply. Some day we WILL run out of them.Unconventional resources, such as nuclear power and renewable fuels, are being developed as we speak.
1171490
So far, there's not enough demand to warrent the extra cost of developing alternative energy sources.  In order to stop using oil (for power) we will need to find cheaper ways of getting alternative energy or become much more motivated to do so.
299625
This country needs to start becoming more self sufficient when it comes to oil supplies.  We have vast oil reserves both in Anwar and other places in the USA.  Sooner or later we must lose our dependency on fossil fuels completely but until then we at least need to end our dependency our foreign oil.  We stopped drilling during the 70s because of concerns with the environment.  Our technology has advanced enough now that I am sure we could drill and refine oil with out destroying our country.
169042
The United States uses 30 times the natural resources per person than most of the rest of the world.  These all use up energy which we buy from the mid-east and from Bush's friends.  They control our lives because of this.  Use less and we gain more control.  Consumption feeds business but ultimately leads to loss of real power and control.
134923
It's a non-renewable natural resource and it takes forever to be made (as in millions of years). So what we have now is pretty much all we have. If it were cheap then we would have probably run out of it already and then we'd all be screwed.
267048
I am a sales rep in the Midwest.  I cover both types of plants and sell equipment to each.  There is zero activity in gas turbine plants right now due to the high gas prices.  Utilities in our area are building new coal burning capacity and trying desperately not to fire their gas turbines.  This could change at any time, but I see clean coal technologies and renewables   taking the lead.
874475
Educating People to be more concious of the Problem!\n\nWe all could recycle more, dispose of less.\nWe all could use more energy efficient heating and motor vehicles.\nDo we really need to use so much power - light that are not needed, leaving chargers plugged in, etc\n\nPeople need to be made aware of the situation and how we all can do our bit to help!
375360
its a question of demand vs supply.. demand is strong and so also is supply.. but older localaties will rise due to better infrastructure( if u get power!!) take ur risk!!!
1168910
There is definitely a crisis. Energy demand continues to rise much faster than supply can compensate and to top it all off we are quickly approaching the limit of all cheaply available petroleum.
551211
They are undeveloped resources. One of them may cure cancer or find a replacement for oil. You never know what the future holds for them.
171324
Every person uses resources.  In the US we use more than anyone else per person.  Adding people to the planet adds stress on the resources of the planet. The number of people and how much each uses creates conflict because finally there are limited resources. \n\nCurrently energy seems to be the resource that is in most demand.  Since a lot of it comes from oil, we fight wars over oil.  It is not pretty.  China has a huge population and is now starting to increase its use of energy.  It is still way below what each of us in the US uses.  As they "need" more their population, which is more stable than ours will increase their demand for oil.\n\nPoliticians who encourage us to use less are ridiculed and treated as freaks.  Jerry Brown in California was called Govenor Moonbeam because he wanted each person to only use what was needed.
262637
The best way is to build nuclear power plants. Duke Power of North Carolina has already built several. The modern world must have energy. There are several sources of energy of which coal and other fossil fuels is one. Nuclear is another.  There is also wind, solar, tides. Even gravitation--hydroelectric being an example.