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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...

A Solid-Waste Solution to Climate Change? A Macro-Financial Strategy around Sovereign Gold and ESH Bonds GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gpra64@gmail.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Disclaimer : This manuscript explores an industrial policy from a wider, Social-Finance perspective, for which reason, it is necessary to examine the matter without the horseblinds imposed by PV-Finance. The author makes no claim about reliability of the proposed design, or the assuredness of indicated outcomes. Introduction Plastics have turned an ubiquitous raw-material, intermediate- and consumer ‘product’ in our society. Its quality, diversity, and niches have expanded the breadth of applications, but engendered a large and exacerbating solid waste externality. Concomitantly, iron and steel-making, a primary resource and infrastructure sector across the world, continues to be a pollution-intensive industry despite significant gains in recycling of iron scrap. The significance of ...

Diesel Soot, by any other name, is just as toxic ! GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist gprao64@gmail.com gprasadrao@hotmail.com Caveat : This blog pre-supposes the reader has perused an earlier blog ‘Cause Bond-based Political cycle Government, NGDP Optimization and Budgeting’, gprao64.blogspot.com “kuchch milaega... .... ....Sheikh OC Kar”. That was all of 45 years ago when I heard a voice in my head suggesting I walk in to, and sniff the black soot vented by an MSRTC bus as it laboured past me trudging home from KV Ambarnath, stopped, then started with a belch of black soot. That I mocked the suggestion, and yet heard “Response....Record” as I continued my walk, is a different matter. The problem, that of exposure to diesel soot suffered by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, residents, commuters, and shoppers continues unabated to this day. In fact, if data were collected, collated and published, it’d reveal that the population-wide exposure t...

..... And Nero fiddled while Rome burned? https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Wyr0xZjMqTX0p6Y01XeGc4Qnc GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist .......So says history, but an evolutionary millennium later, are we any different? We have, across a century of fossil-fuel powered electricity and road-motoring, reduced the very life-giving air we breathe. From a warming greenhouse that melts glaciers, icebergs, even ice-continents, cardiac stress due warmer evenings, climate and urban heat-island-externality-reinforcing indoor air-conditioning, sea-erosion and drowning islands from rising oceans, typhoons and storm surges, the impacts are real and palpable. Why then do we turn a blind eye to an exacerbating disaster? Didn’t the Political we elected delay solar and wind technology decades, and whittle down a carbon tax/permit regime until and eventually it turned a non-binding joke of the century? And what do we have now? A run-away global smokestack economy that has more...