Wind solar and hydropwer are expected to be increasingly important for electricity generation. Unreliability of wind and solar source in terms of variability across various time scales is a roadblock inspite of prices having come down.
Vayu Surya and Varuna are gods of wind sun and rain. This gives India a huge advantage in terms of harnessing the 3 energy sources.
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Isn't half of the country flooded and the other half facing a drought? I am not being sarcastic but I do not believe energy dependent on weather can ever be a source of stable power because of global warming. The past 4 years have seen far more floods, earthquakes and heat waves than ever before - source is Inside Story on Al Jazeera.
How can you have solar, air or hydro electricity when you can't ensure constant and more important stable environments for such work?
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On a serious note use of renewables will decrease global warming - and sitabilize weather patterns. So having renewables as part of a nation 's energy portfolio is the ONLY way forward.
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good point - we should look at harnessing CM for his huge gas reserves.
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On a serious note use of renewables will decrease global warming - and sitabilize weather patterns. So having renewables as part of a nation 's energy portfolio is the ONLY way forward.
I have yet to hear that global warming is at all reversible. After all the CO2 emissions can't be sucked out of the air with renewable energy. It simply limits the amount of carbon emissions produced yearly. More importantly the technology needed is not cost effective nor sustainable for a good 90% of the world. People actively mention Balochistan as a paradise for solar and wind powered energy, but it is extremely costly and economically ineffective.
Its one thing for Europe to use renewable energy to power cities and the rest. Its another thing for Kenya to do it.
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Hydro is fairly reliable, but not as a sole provider of energy. Solar is much more reliable, and is expected to be one of the fastest growing industries. Naturally, most of the biggest players are Chinese. Does anyone know if India or Pakistan provide subsidies for fossil fuels? I know in America, the big 5 oil companies still receive tax breaks from bills that are a century old.
I've read articles that mention environmentalists calling for a Manhattan Project like global effort to make renewable sources cost effective. Keep dreaming huh?
Just keep hoping for fusion...
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Agreed that co2 that is out there can only be reduced through photosynthesis. So a combination of reduced fossils reduced consumption increased renewables more trees may slow down this trend of increasing GHG and say in 59 yrs reverse it. Got to start somewhere. Wind and solar are being installedi. India
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Hydro as an example in Pakistan is the main source of energy and is extremely unreliable because our water requirements are dependent on the monsoon like India and the ice melt of the Himalayas. Additionally the ice melt is a huge supply of fresh drinking water that is not being harvested.
But again the question comes to the reliability of these modes of energy production considering how erratic the weather has been for the past 4 years.
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^ correct. That is why renewables cannot be only source but part of overall portfolio.
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It makes sense. But the likelihood of it happening in Pakistan is 0. So I am looking forward to no electricity in 10 years time.
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well solar and wind may be erratic, but when your yardstick is WAPDA or indian state electricity boards, they are pretty regular.
also, the whole idea of needing a constant power source is only because you are sticking to the grid approach. which is not even a necessity.
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^ I assume by grid approach you mean bulk generation. So opposite kg grid centric would be what? Off grid distributed generation? As large as sufficient for a community of say 100-500 families or as small as. Off grid 5 family? Wind I believe is suitable for central generat
Ion. So is hydro. Solar PV comes in various sizes few ow to Multics MW.
With diversity across various regions on can have reasonably predictable generation. I would not use the tern constant - but use reliable instead?
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What does this mean? 
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Per our mythology, Vayu is God of wind, Varuna is God of rain, Surya the Sun God.
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Per our mythology, Vayu is God of wind, Varuna is God of rain, Surya the Sun God.
And this gives India an advantage?
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And this gives India an advantage?
Of course! May I borrow your wink?
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Of course! May I borrow your wink?
Sure. Here it is. ;)
Pardon me, but your statement means these gods are 'territorial' or 'limited' over India only and they give India an advantage.
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Isn't half of the country flooded and the other half facing a drought? I am not being sarcastic but I do not believe energy dependent on weather can ever be a source of stable power because of global warming. The past 4 years have seen far more floods, earthquakes and heat waves than ever before - source is Inside Story on Al Jazeera.
How can you have solar, air or hydro electricity when you can't ensure constant and more important stable environments for such work?
Actually thermodynamically speaking changes are positive because climatic differences creates a disparity which means flow of either heat, water is prevalent. Energy wise change is good ... What you would invest in is hybrid technology ... That would switch the mode of harnessing depending on the available form ... In the Uk they are putting lamposts up that have both solar panels and wind vanes on them as combo devices for energy harnessing.
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Wind solar and hydropwer are expected to be increasingly important for electricity generation. Unreliability of wind and solar source in terms of variability across various time scales is a roadblock inspite of prices having come down.
Vayu Surya and Varuna are gods of wind sun and rain. This gives India a huge advantage in terms of harnessing the 3 energy sources.
India is surely missing a tidal wave energy god ?!?! approx 3 years back I was involved in the installation of Tidal wave plant in Northern Ireland (latest of the renewable energy technologies).
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The truth about energy and the source from fossil fuel is that as long as we have reserves of oil and gas we will continue using them ... It is to limit the remaining countries from breaking out their own industrial revolutions ...if the west leave the fossil fuels alone, then others will take them ... Think renewable when fossil fuels are depleted ... Stark fact ... I'm sorry to say.