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Romney: Energy independence not 'pie in the sky' - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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Ek Tha Tiger: The other side of the coal scam - daily.bhaskar.com - 0 views

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"I've spent the past few days reading a couple of page-turners that I recommend strongly to every Indian who cares about her country: the CAG's audit report on coal block allocations, and a new report released by Greenpeace, titled 'How Coal-Mining is Trashing Tigerland'. Both are freely available online, at the CAG and the Greenpeace websites respectively. Till now, the media has focused primarily on the CAG report. But you have to read both together to get the full picture about the implications of coalgate. The CAG's audit report makes three things amply clear: one, in the last seven years, the government of India has given a major push to coal-based power; two, a lot of private players have made a lot of money out of coal, and more through speculation than by actually producing coal; three, the office of our beloved incorruptible prime minister was right in the thick of coalgate, having chosen to avoid a transparent process of competitive bidding - opting instead to award coal blocks through a 'screening committee' - despite being advised by its own legal experts that a competitive bidding process would not contravene the existing mining laws. Yes, the corruption in the coal block allocation is mind-boggling. I mean, can someone even explain what Rs1,800,000,000,000 means - on a human, as opposed to a cosmic, scale? But corruption is only half the coalgate story - the half that's easier to tell, because it doesn't challenge any of our assumptions. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I've spent the past few days reading a couple of page-turners that I recommend strongly to every Indian who cares about her country: the CAG's audit report on coal block allocations, and a new report released by Greenpeace, titled 'How Coal-Mining is Trashing Tigerland'. Both are freely available online, at the CAG and the Greenpeace websites respectively. Till now, the media has focused primarily on the CAG report. But you have to read both together to get the full picture about the implications of coalgate. The CAG's audit report makes three things amply clear: one, in the last seven years, the government of India has given a major push to coal-based power; two, a lot of private players have made a lot of money out of coal, and more through speculation than by actually producing coal; three, the office of our beloved incorruptible prime minister was right in the thick of coalgate, having chosen to avoid a transparent process of competitive bidding - opting instead to award coal blocks through a 'screening committee' - despite being advised by its own legal experts that a competitive bidding process would not contravene the existing mining laws. Yes, the corruption in the coal block allocation is mind-boggling. I mean, can someone even explain what Rs1,800,000,000,000 means - on a human, as opposed to a cosmic, scale? But corruption is only half the coalgate story - the half that's easier to tell, because it doesn't challenge any of our assumptions. "</div>

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"Solamon Renewable Energy blog is created by a private organization, composed of various professionals, that strives to inform and disseminate info about a number of renewable energy sources (which are more viable) and environmentally-friendly than the widely-popular sources these days. We feature geothermal heat, wave power and hydroelectrical power. Solamon Renewable Energy wants to practically give information away to people so they would become more open to suggestions that they think are too radical for our time. Our group was founded with the aim to make countries see the relevance of starting to switch to renewable energy sources from the ones that we are used to. Not only because of the high prices and depleting availability, but more importantly, for the sake of environmental sustainability and nature preservation. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Solamon Renewable Energy blog is created by a private organization, composed of various professionals, that strives to inform and disseminate info about a number of renewable energy sources (which are more viable) and environmentally-friendly than the widely-popular sources these days. We feature geothermal heat, wave power and hydroelectrical power. Solamon Renewable Energy wants to practically give information away to people so they would become more open to suggestions that they think are too radical for our time. Our group was founded with the aim to make countries see the relevance of starting to switch to renewable energy sources from the ones that we are used to. Not only because of the high prices and depleting availability, but more importantly, for the sake of environmental sustainability and nature preservation. "</div>

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"Policies and regulations currently in place to reduce CO2 emissions are not likely sufficient to handle the threat of increased emission from the India, China and US. One has to imagine that gasoline's energy density is peerless that we would have to make a nuclear plant worth of clean energy daily for the next 5 decades just to meet our energy demands at present. Wave source is also a widely adopted alternative source but it is not nearly as viable, and consistently reliable, as shale gas. There are experts who believe that simply using less coal would solve the problem nicely. They argue that if top emitters like India and China resort to shale gas as an alternative, it could greatly affect the future of global CO2 emissions as shale gas emits 50% less carbon dioxide compared to that of coals. Naturally, players in the coal sector do not want this proposition to advance and even go as far as to propose that we might as well remove all conventional fuels of the present. Both supporters and critics would not acknowledge that the carbon dioxide emission policies are simply not enough to deal with threat of the coal-fueled economies like US and China. So unless a viable and quickly deployable fuel alternative of coal is discovered, it would not be possible to control the rising trajectory of CO2 levels worldwide. And although environmentalist groups might, at first sight, consider shale gas as a scam posing as a solution, widespread use of shale gas could be our best bet in securing quick reduction of CO2 emissions that the Earth desperately needs. The shift of momentum in using alternative fuel like shale gas could additionally buy us more time in developing more effective and viable solutions to further reduce the world's CO2 emissions. Renewable power resources at present cannot give the same results of emission savings as much as with the shale gas'. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Policies and regulations currently in place to reduce CO2 emissions are not likely sufficient to handle the threat of increased emission from the India, China and US. One has to imagine that gasoline's energy density is peerless that we would have to make a nuclear plant worth of clean energy daily for the next 5 decades just to meet our energy demands at present. Wave source is also a widely adopted alternative source but it is not nearly as viable, and consistently reliable, as shale gas. There are experts who believe that simply using less coal would solve the problem nicely. They argue that if top emitters like India and China resort to shale gas as an alternative, it could greatly affect the future of global CO2 emissions as shale gas emits 50% less carbon dioxide compared to that of coals. Naturally, players in the coal sector do not want this proposition to advance and even go as far as to propose that we might as well remove all conventional fuels of the present. Both supporters and critics would not acknowledge that the carbon dioxide emission policies are simply not enough to deal with threat of the coal-fueled economies like US and China. So unless a viable and quickly deployable fuel alternative of coal is discovered, it would not be possible to control the rising trajectory of CO2 levels worldwide. And although environmentalist groups might, at first sight, consider shale gas as a scam posing as a solution, widespread use of shale gas could be our best bet in securing quick reduction of CO2 emissions that the Earth desperately needs. The shift of momentum in using alternative fuel like shale gas could additionally buy us more time in developing more effective and viable solutions to further reduce the world's CO2 emissions. Renewable power resources at present cannot give the same results of emission savings as much as with the shale gas'. "</div>

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