India has a huge shoreline. Are there any efforts to tap tidal energy? There are hot springs sprouting in most of the Himalayan belt. Any efforts to tap geo-thermal energy? If India has supposedly researched and devised means to using Thorium, why is that not been followed? Every hydro-electric project goes thru huge delays. Why can't these be expedited? UMPPs have not been able to see the light of the day, even in terms of policy or process - not to talk about the projects themselves. Electricity distribution is in a mess, and inefficiencies are at every step. Even if the inefficiecies are removed, there should easily be 10% addition to the power received by end-users.
What is the expected contribution of nuclear energy in percentage terms by 2020 - 10% (20% at the very best) of the total energy consumption.
In a country where even gobar is utilised in producing energy, the government can probably just spend half the effort of the N-deal in the usage of alternative technologies and improving efficiencies in the existing systems, and they would derive far higher and sustainable returns, and also much sooner.
