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Taliban at risk of accidentally cutting the carbon footprint of Kabul via unpaid electrical bills and blackouts

On the bright side, the Taliban is doing its part to cut global carbon emissions through curtailed electricity use in the capital city of Kabul.

On the not-so-bright-side, there will be darkness. Lots and lots of darkness:

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Did the Taliban just think the lights stayed on all by themselves?

According to the WSJ, there’s no national power grid in the country and “Kabul depends almost completely on imported power from Central Asia”:

Electricity imports from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan account for half of Afghanistan’s power consumption nationwide, with Iran providing additional supplies to the country’s west. Domestic production, mostly at hydropower stations, has been affected by this year’s drought. Afghanistan lacks a national power grid, and Kabul depends almost completely on imported power from Central Asia.

Of course, one reason there is no power grid is the Taliban was known to target power lines:

Welcome back to the Dark Ages:

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Oh, it gets worse. . .

U.S. taxpayers funded a power-plant for Kabul but it’s not in use:

And it’s not in use because of cheaper rates from Central Asian countries. From the WSJ:

The U.S. Agency for International Development spent $335 million building the Tarakhil diesel power plant to supply Kabul with electricity. But diesel is expensive and dangerous to transport in Afghanistan. By the time the plant opened in 2010, a year behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars above budget, a separate project funded by the Asian Development Bank connected Kabul to far cheaper hydropower from Uzbekistan. By 2015, Tarakhil produced only 1% of its capacity, and 0.35% of Kabul’s power.

Whoops.

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