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The Coal ‘Punarjanma’: Let’s celebrate ‘Koyla Oorja’ for Electric Vehicles ! Ganga Prasad G. Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprao64.blogspot.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Electric Vehicles, EVs, were the fad .... yesterday. Sliding, and fast, from Concept Car to Rich man’s fancies, to engaging the real-life choices of the white-collared, these vehicles run on power stored in built-in rechargeable batteries. Bypassing IC-engines, these emission-less vehicles nonetheless cause emissions remotely, many-a-times in other jurisdictions when they draw upon Fossil fuel-fired power through inter-jurisdictional, inter-national, or inter-continental power grids 1 . Despite this Local-Remote trade-off, policymakers consider EVs as one among many control options available to urban air pollution management. Such justification, however, is seriously misguided for several reasons. Many nations that would implement EVs, are well-endowed in Coal and Lignite re...

Beware the 2-edged Infra Knife ! Ganga Prasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprao64.blogspot.com gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Disclaimer: As always, the author absolves himself from the many reasons that might cause the proposed solution to fall short of intended outcomes. All errors, particularly language, grammar and diction, are indeed mine ! Not one election passes without reference to the ‘Development’ agenda espoused by political parties – no matter which leaning. Public Infrastructure is high on the agenda of political parties for obvious reasons: they are immediately GDP-and Employment positive; they stoke the Resources and Manufacturing sector, beyond opening aggrandizing opportunities in the Realty sector. Central Banks, and local banks are all too willing to sponsor, support and manage public infrastructure projects.... last, but not least, politicians, in the immediate precinct and beyond, reap political capital from such projects....

Stop the Run-away Train that Climate Change Is..... How ’bout a bowl of Restructured Capital Soup ? Ganga Prasad G, Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprasadrao.blogspot.com gprao64.blogspot.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Discl aimer : The author makes no claim about reliability of the proposed design, or the assuredness of indicated outcomes. Introduction What, you ask, could be the analogical parallel between inflation and GHG emissions? Inflation, as a bottom line-enhancing business strategy, is often claimed to have been fiscally or monetarily resolved and put away politically. But it’d have, by then, done its damage in raising the prices of various goods - essential or otherwise, oftentimes irreversibly. In the same vein, one might claim to have abated economy-wide emissions, particularly on a GDP Energy-intensity basis, but the increments in ambient CO2 concentrations that occur before emissions are contained and despite reductions in energy intensity, are irreversible...