[NormsRevenge]

In this photo made available by the Cuban Government's National Information Agency (AIN), Cuban President Fidel Castro announces a major renovation of Cuba's national energy system, outlining plans to decentralize the island's electrical grid , in Pinar del Rio, west of Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006. Castro said the island's half-dozen mega thermoelectrical plants gradually would be replaced with smaller more localized plants, with gaps to be filled with solar and wind power. (AP/Photo Ismael Francisco/AIN, HO)

[NormsRevenge]

Cuban President Fidel Castro (bottom R) sits amidst the audience during an event in Pinar del Rio, Cuba January 17, 2006. President Castro unveiled a network of small power generators in Pinar del Rio province on Tuesday, the first step in a vast plan to overhaul Cuba's inadequate electricity system and end chronic outages. The new strategy is part of an ambitious plan that also calls for replacing millions of inefficient electric stoves, refrigerators and other household appliances, some of them made in the United States and in use since before Castro's 1959 revolution. REUTERS/Ismael Francisco/AIN/Handout

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Higher quality extension cords will be used.

[aumrl]

What are their "massive thermoelectrical plants"?

[Just mythoughts]

Maybe Russia will provide them with nuclear.

[popdonnelly]

So Cubans should stock up on candles.

[denydenydeny]

In the wake of the problems that caused severe blackouts across the island beginning in 2004,

I bet I can name what Problem # 1 is.

[The Cuban]

What he is going to start supplying electricity?

[CrazyIvan]

"Castro Announces Overhaul of Electric Grid"

Until I read the article I assumed that this was a device used on political prisoners.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

 

Doh!

[JOE6PAK]

He couldn't announce the overhaul of a '58 Ford.

[Nateman]

If you really want power for the Cubans run about 100 amps through Castro.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Castro said Cuba would decentralize its power system
Perhaps the economy will be next??? Hello?? (ted kennedy voice)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

But...but....(gasping, mouth agape,) this can't be! Socialism always work damnit!

Seriously, the U.S. should buy Cuba for $5 billion, let Castro and his cronies be exiled anywhere in the world except the U.S. and its territories, and open the island up to American investors and let good old-fashioned American know-how work its magic.

[Petronski]

Switching to AC?

[Rastus]

[Doctor Raoul]

The AP Havana bureau sounds just like the AP Washington bureau...

[Rocky]

Communist paradise. How many "people's windmills" will it take to replace a mega thermoelectric power plant (whatever that may be in Castro-speak)?

[TomB]

gradually replacing five massive thermoelectric plants

I guess all the big, mutant-size beavers died.

I wonder how their giant hamster program is progressing?