Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise for India.Solar and wind energy is abundant in India, will sustain our civilization eternally, improve rural energy supplies with distributed energy sources, provide more rural employment, free high quality electric grid supplies for concentrated urban and industrial loads, will open investment in this area in India my the mid-East countries who will run out of their oil shortly,will provide less risky and environmental friendly,save us from frequent price fluctuations of imported fuels and assure stable priced end use energy supplies, provide us energy security. It is easer to target or sabotage or lose in natural disaster one large nuclear power plant than thousands of small alternative natural and renewable energy supply units scattered over countryside and based on solar , wind, bio-mass and cow-dung. A well knit network of voluntary NGOs with more unified voice should launch a nationwide campaign towards this end. There is no point in involving big companies selling finished alternative energy products (except in solar photovoltaics)at unaffordable prices. we need small industries with shared technologies to produce standard quality components with which the rural masses can assemble their own units. Don't subsidize imported fuel, but invest in capital goods and logistics to help the rural population to work out and maintain its own community power solutions with good simple alternative energy technologies.
RE:Bush blunder in selling nuclear deal. Blessing in disguise
by jay krishnan on Oct 23, 2007 11:27 AM Permalink
Very well analyzed and stated Rajan. Let's hope enough rational thinking Indians ( which is a scarce commodity these days) will read this post.
