Kansai facing 20% power shortage

Lets thank the anti-nuclear nuts for that.

Neccessity is the mother of invention. The new normal is that Japan is coping relatively well without the much touted nuclear plants functioning. Japan has not stopped functioning! The world has not ended! The focus should now be on better energy mixes to survive without electricity from nukes. It has proven expensive, dirty, unsustainable, environemtally suicidal and unethical.

Rick Kisa...have you ever been here in July through September? There are going to be a lot of elderly dead from lack of aircon

Remember, these "20%" figures are measured against an abnormally hot summer, ie 2010.

Oh, and 2010 was the hottest summer for 113 years, according to the Japanese weather bureau.

So how great are the odds that we'll get another record summer this year?

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/feature/2010news10/j04.htm

You're right zichi. The whole story is a house of cards.