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- gavinhudson, on 07/01/2008, -2/+31Good for India!
- phreak79, on 07/01/2008, -2/+29India would appear to be an ideal location for solar energy, especially as it would allow energy to reach out to the areas centralised power generation cannot reach.
- sanman, on 07/01/2008, -0/+19Especially since India can't get its act together in developing conventional power-generating infrastructure. Unconventional alternative energy may win by default, simply because all other conventional options will fail due to obstructionism. Just like how IT took off there only after conventional blue-collar industrialization was suppressed for decades.
It's good to make clean energy your first choice out of many options, but it's not quite as noble when it's your only choice left after you've made most other options untenable. There's still a ridiculous amount of load-shedding in that country, and a failure to deliver basic services. - djturtlep, on 07/01/2008, -1/+18Alternative energy is the way to go! Great job India.
- phreak79, on 07/01/2008, -0/+15Exactly, it could leap the technological generations. Mobile has leapfrogged landline telecoms in many countries for just such a reason and it seems that microgeneration has similar potential.
- thepeacemaker, on 07/01/2008, -0/+13A lot of progress is being achieved in India for completely different reasons. Here in the heart of Houston, we have ugly phone/electricity wires dangling on wooden poles on the road sides. But many cities in India now have their wires underground not for aesthetic reasons but because a huge percentage of electricity gets stolen from illegal connections. Many in India moved directly to cell phones as getting a land line is a bureaucratic nightmare.
- newstart, on 07/01/2008, -1/+12On paper India is the best country in the world. Always forming the right policies having a very robust democratic system, forming the right right laws at the right time. If we look back in history even then India was always doing the right thing, for example starting the Non Alignment Movement in the cold war which meant not aligning with either US or Russia.
But then how come India is still a third world country and not a developed one??
Its because of enforcing these laws. Its because of the corrupt politicians and the government officials. As someone who has followed India closely I think India would have been a highly developed country if only they implemented even 40% of the laws they come up with.
It is a very weird thing. They know exactly what is wrong, have the capacity to come up with the best solutions in the world but wont actually do anything to change their won state. If the job of making a poor African country get developed was outsourced to India, they will do it efficiently. But they wont do it to improve their own country!
I - strykefive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+12Umm first step to relieve high cost of food is by lowering demand for it - hence solar power. So yea, they do have their priorities right.
- Carl306, on 07/01/2008, -2/+13As someone who visited India (was in the heart of Mumbai for about two weeks) back in December of 2006, I can't begin to express how excited and happy I am for this country to be looking into alternatives like this. When making our descent in the plane towards the airport, I was literally shocked to look out the window and see a thick layer of smog hovering above the city, not to mention when I actually got out on the ground and had to breathe it in, sneezing or blowing my nose would sometimes yield dark/black fluids from my nose (yes... I was breathing in all that pollution).
I'll agree with the poster earlier who claimed that perhaps India should set its priorities straight and focus on feeding the LARGE amount of poverty stricken citizens they have, but I can only see this influx of technology helping their population if it is implemented properly. - ametory, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8And that is why they call you "The Ignorant American". Get your facts right.
- chase001, on 07/01/2008, -8/+16Meanwhile the addiction to oil and the combustion engine will destroy the US.
- ganjaguru, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8Being an Indian, I agree completely with what you say. What I've noticed is that Privatisation has helped speed up things a great deal (Road,Automobiles,Airlines,Electricity,etc). There is unfortunately a huge number of people in the Middle Class/Lower Middle Class group which prefer to have government jobs solely for the reason that its not easy to fire them if they're slacking off ( due to extremely strong nation/state wide Unions). Private companies are extremely effecient here, and they're the ones other countries outsource to.
- DesiGUY, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8The Sun is one of our GODs... so, yea we discovered the Sun.
/Back to the Sun worship - inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7The Problem is Coalition Politics. If we had a stronger party that had a Complete mandate then things would be better. Politicians are too busy keeping political Alliances alive rather then spending time fixing problems.
- yokel, on 07/01/2008, -1/+8True. I am an Indian and am scared of working in the big cities because of pollution. I come from a smaller city where things are much better.
- arjie, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6Then we will sit in the shade.
- SuminderJi, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6India is hot.
India has lots of sun. - inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6WE already have that is some parts. My Ancestral Village where my Grand parents live have a solar panel to charge up an emergency light. Comes in Handy in the night when power supply is erratic.
- ortucis, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5In comparison, Delhi (capital) has so many trees (increasing day by day thanks to the new craze here) that they are worried that Delhi will soon start having rainforest like atmosphere, which is kinda true since it has been raining and have been clowdy unlike ever.
Anyways, solar energy is cool :P - elamr, on 07/01/2008, -2/+7Damn, they are smart. China is ***** polution-wise in about 5-7 years. They'll be clamoring for alternative energy like we are now, albeit for different reasons.
- digjam, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Its amazing to see *most* americans talking ***** about everyone else on the planet when half of them dont even know how the world map looks like.
People driving SUVs and Pikcups say countries like India and China are polluting the world... One thing no one knows is that in these developing nations the biggest engine in the consumer vehicles is smaller that the engines in vehicles sold in America..thereby reducing the consumption. - nick111, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5Climate change is not the only reason to invest in solar / renewable.
- arjie, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4True, we need energy. Badly. And we have to get it from somewhere. My city, Madras, loses power atleast once every night during summer (now). It happens during the day too.
To add to that, just yesterday all the petrol bunks were closed. There was no petrol or diesel. And today there were huge lines everywhere. We get loads of power from coal, and some from nuclear. But the future of our nuclear power is in some doubt. When I spoke to the people from the IGCAR, Kalpakkam, they thought that the Indo-US Nuclear Deal wasn't going to be good for us, and they said we could get all the [Thorium] fuel we wanted [from Kerala] but that things would change with the deal. So yeah, any power, from anywhere will be good. - smithgerry12, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5yes,absolutely solar energy will play a great role in india in the coming generation. there is scarcity of energy now a days and is increasing rapidly.....so solar energy is the main source of energy in the coming time.....
- kg37, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4???
- donkeybat64, on 07/01/2008, -4/+8...and the US addiction to oil has destroyed the world.
- krnldmp, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4Pretty soon solar power will be so cheap and ubiquitous you're not going to think twice about sitting on it.
- Sabretou, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4This is INDIA!!!
- legendxx, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5Nothing like spinning good news into another way the US is going to 'destroy itself'. rofl
- ortucis, on 07/01/2008, -2/+6Oh *****, the Pakistani knows more about India than us Indians. But then, I am from Delhi and it's not like whole world is pollution free. Moron.
- katagana, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5Check http://www.desertec-india.org.in/ for a concept plan to power india entirely from the sun!
- strykefive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4I meant lowering the cost of oil (hence lowering food prices).
- krnldmp, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3More sun than you need is going to turn out to be one of the most valuable things you can possess in the next century.
- malex, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3Bikes are pretty cool, though. Trains too.
The combustion engine was well and good for a hundred, but America's mistake was building our entire infrastructure around it. We need to move on to something better. - Temo1, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3Wind is cheaper and more efficient... if you have huge amounts of open space like we do in the US. Not so much in India.
- arjie, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4Okay, this is a bit of an embarrassing story to tell, but I should tell you anyway:
When there were windmills in Maharashtra, the few seasons after they were installed were very dry. The farmers (and the politicians getting them to make a fuss) claimed that the windmills were blowing away the clouds.
Yes, I know, windmills do not work that way.
Footnote: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/651 ... - inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3I kid you not. The panels that my family has in our Native Village is located on a Plastic Chair. :P
- lazn, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3Of course if we went back to the horse and buggy we'd destroy it even faster: http://katsmeows.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-cars-hel ...
Without the internal combustion engine, we'd have to cut our population by a huge amount to survive. - edwinjose, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1India is the land of Plans.
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+2Do you really think the Average indian voters has the knowledge to care about the Indian Energy Policy.
- picklesx2, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1solar energy use is fantastic for any country. If it will help with the power supply and it come naturally go for it : )
- digjam, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Yeah right...driving a 450 hp 10mpg pickup is the limit here! YOU FAIL!
- beauley, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1With Global Warming on many people's minds, do we have any ideas of the best way to lessen the impact on our future, or maybe a possible relief of its possible ravages or even a possible key to its eventual reversal. Many scientific experts have proposed
http://www.quazen.com/Science/Technology/Solar-Pow ...
Solar Power, Source of Endless Energy - princemalhotra, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0you got the point...........
- acfm, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1may be you should pay attention to ur.....?
- stutimandal, on 07/01/2008, -7/+7It is just a marketing gimmick in India. Climate change in India is due to deforestation, sad pollution norms, too much population, and lack of proper transport infrastructure. Fuel emission is the last cause for climate change in India.
When history-students start planning scientific development (as it happens in Indian bureaucracy), then these kind of things happen. - princemalhotra, on 07/01/2008, -2/+1All this is nothing but pre-electoral gimmick to woo voters, as the congress right now has nothing in their bag to show them what good they have done during their term except the nuclear deal which they are pushing too hard to no avail and which is already overshadowed by inflation
- krnldmp, on 07/01/2008, -3/+2You'll have a serious need for levity when your electric bill comes from India too.
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