Archive for November, 2009
Twin cities indeed sleep late Saturdays and early Sundays
Posted by K. Shahzad in Lifestyle on November 1, 2009
It is really fun when you get out late Saturdays and specially early Sundays. Because you will see that the highways of twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad which are normally full of traffic, are almost clear in timings. And by late Saturdays it means something near midnight and afterward. Specially on Sunday mornings most of people off course including me do not get want to get out of their homes, so this is the time when you will see all the roads almost clear.
In normal circumstances the exponentially increasing traffic have made the movement extremely difficult. This is why when people find the clear main highways, they seem to be blessing for them. Another thing that highways are now not being widen and kept up in accordance with the exponentially increasing traffic. This factor as well increases the traveling time very much.
Day Light Saving saved about estimated 48750 megawatts of Power
Posted by K. Shahzad in Inside Story, National on November 1, 2009
Day Light Saving (DLS) time which was took in place on April 2009 by government actually saved about 250 megawatts of power daily. This rough estimate was provided by the ministry of water and power. Officials also told that one megawatt of power cost about 1 million dollar. So this way this day light saving strategy saved about estimated 48750 million dollars this year.
Day Light Saving was took in place on 15th of April 2009 and lost till yesterday the 31st October, 2009 midnight when clocks all over the world were moved back by one hour. Seeing the amount of energy saved by putting in Day Light Saving time it have been decided that this practice will now be repeated every year to take full advantage of natural light. Let me remind you that this practice was first time introduced in 2002 in Pakistan but soon declared as the flop one. Then in many following years this was discontinued.
Clocks across the country back to normal time
Posted by K. Shahzad in National on November 1, 2009
Government of Pakistan had introduced the Day Light Saving (DLS) time back in April 15, 09 for this year to overcome the prevailing power shortage. Now after six and half months after the DLS time was introduced the clocks all over the country are now back to normal time. As in winter sun rise timings are much different so in compared to sun rise the students and the people at many job had now to get up even before the sunrise, so as time moved back to normal it will be big relief.
Day Light Saving time is not very much an old concept for this country. It was introduced few years ago for the first time but was very much opposed by the people and also at that time stats showed that it actually caused loss of more energy that year, so was discontinued for many years. But now again its continued and this time it saved lots of power and is a good concept. Most countries all over the world adopt the Day Light Saving time to save the energy every year.
Day Light Saving must be continued and it will probably be continued every year to use more of natural energy. This not only ease the local power consumption but also in turn reduces the carbon which is being thrown to the environment. So Day Light Saving is indeed environment friendly stuff helping us to keep the earth green.
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