Opinion

Mr. Mukund perhaps did not tell that solar energy will be produced in every house in every village for self consumption and for the consumption of the neighbor. The solar energy is being produced only on the roof of every house and hence does not require acquisition of land by state government. It does not require heavy investment. It costs only Rs. 2 lakh to instal a 5 kw solar power equipment plant. After installation of equipment within one hour the electricity is produced within five seconds. Hope our economists will not be disappointed to know that Central Electronics Limited a PSU is producing solar panels which are the best and the cheapest in the world. Within one year our Panchayats schools government buildings will be engaged to sell electricity to run home made transport vehicles. And it will be all free of cost.

This in continuation of my previous comment on articles written by Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyer on perils of quick transition to solar power. In my previous note as have given reasons why we should transition as quickly as possible. I this note I will first give some more reasons why we should hasten the process rather than slowing it down. Then in the next comment I will give counter arguments to some of the disadvantages of solar power sited by the author. 1. You do not have to dig deep in the earth to get solar power. 2. You do not have to transport the fuel long distance, as in the case of coal. 3. It produces no pollutants. 4. It has duel advantage of using the incident energy of the sun's rays to get useful energy and it does this without producing any heat. Hence it has double effect of reversing global warming. 5. Each 1 MWhour of power produced will reduce carbon emissions by 1 metric ton. We would have required 50 full grown trees to absorb the CO2 generated if we had produce the same power using coal. 6. Please note all fossil fuels are in effect produced over millions of years by converting solar energy in to organic matter and then compression the organic matter under the weight of derbies fallen over it. It is abundantly available because our ancestors did not use it. So why not use energy that is available to us today. Rather using what is accumulated by our ancestors.