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In India, most of the total power used is generated by coal. And yes, natural gas beats coal-powered electricity.
Only if you disregard how natural gas is made. Fracking, and fugitive gas, and transport costs you don't seem to care about make CNG and LNG highly suspect.
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If only we can get an efficient & cost effective Thorium reactor working, most of the coal plants can be shutdown much sooner. Going by publicly available data, we are no where near a working prototype.
Aren't these also going to be vulnerable to the lack of water problem?
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If only we can get an efficient & cost effective Thorium reactor working, most of the coal plants can be shutdown much sooner. Going by publicly available data, we are no where near a working prototype.
Renewables and batteries will shut them down far far faster then a pie in the sky reactor that probably won't ever happen.
About 60 million Indians hop on an e-rickshaw every day, analysts estimate. Passengers pay about 10 rupees, or 14 cents, for a ride. In a country with limited shared transit options and a vast population of working poor people, the vehicles provide a vital service as well as a decent living for drivers, who are mostly illiterate.
What is the citation for the drivers being "mostly illiterate"? Sounds like bullshit to me. The country is something like 70-80% literate and a significant part of the illiterate population consists of old people.