[irrigation-power-en Energy resources in India

[Teluguseva]

Hi,
Thank you for updating your paper “Energy resources in India” in
‘Files’ of this Group. The proposed way of using wave and wind power
available on territorial waters of India is highly innovative. Even if
it is technically and economically feasible, we need to study
thoroughly the possible negative factors such as possibility of
unprecedented floods / cloud bursts, etc. We must have control on this
method of creating additional clouds. Your paper “Process to maximize
monsoon benefits by cloud-suppression” in ‘files’ is also very
innovative concept and seems to be better option.

You have dealt in the paper about the Biomass derived Bio-oil and Bio-
crude and also bio-diesel oil production from Algae and Honge trees.
It is very interesting to know the renewable and carbon neutral energy
resources of a tropical country like India. We need lot of water to
harness biomass production potential fully which can be achieved by
utilization of our water resources.

Another method of increasing biomass is cultivating sweet sorghum crop
in our rain fed lands. This is a seasonal crop which gives food
grains, ethanol / methanol and biomass. Only sugar cane crop can
surpass this crop productivity but it is long duration crop with lot
of irrigation water requirement. As you stated in your paper that
vegetable oils are converted in to bio-diesel by adding methanol/
ethanol by esterification, the required ethanol and methanol can be
met from the sweet sorghum crop.

We should learn from USA how it is able to enhance its energy
resources production in an innovative way. USA consumes 1750 MCMD
(million cubic meters per day) of natural gas which is 10 times of
India’s natural gas consumption. The yield from conventional gas
fields is constant for last 20 years which is only 40% of present gas
production. In last 20 years the increase in gas production is met
from nonconventional gas fields such as shale gas fields, coal bed
methane, small isolated gas fields, etc. The present natural gas price
in USA (Henry hub price) is nearly 50% of the gas price fixed for
Krishna Godavari offshore gas.

Every country has its own advantages and disadvantages. We should be
able to understand our advantages and device our own solutions and not
fully coping others. As you said 50 billion US$ crude oil import bill
is huge amount to take up any infrastructure projects. If this
expenditure is not there, India will become trade surplus country
overnight. Who is earning this foreign currency? Six million
expatriates living in Middle east countries who are mostly employed in
the lower strata of society such as garbage pickers, sanitation
workers, servants in households, camel herders, construction labors,
etc. These people are working away from their families in foreign
lands just for earning money like machines. The foreigners look at all
Indians in a belittling attitude. Is it the image of India our
government wants create? These labor importing countries are thriving
by enjoying cheap labor available from Indian subcontinent and
Philippines. We should learn from China. Though its living standard of
its people is not so good but its poverty is not showcased in every
part of the world. It is high time that India should ban its citizens
working abroad in filthy jobs such as sanitation, garbage picking,
garbage processing, house hold servants, etc.

India should take lead in forming an organization “Onsite Services
Exporting Countries (OSEC)” with Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Nepal, Srilanka, Ethiopia, Atria, etc. similar to OPEC. Minimum wages
should be fixed for every trade in line with developed countries
(Europe & North America) wage indexes. This may increase the oil
prices further higher but entire benefit will be accrued by OSEC
countries and their image in the comity of nations will improve
drastically. These countries cannot sustain present living standards
without cheap expatriate’s services from these countries. Increase in
oil prices is also advantageous to OSEC since the non conventional
energy resources available locally will become more economical to
exploit.
Thank you again for your thought provoking article.
Regards,
Teluguseva

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[N. Sasidhar]

Hi
Thank you for your valuable observations.
Gold imports by India are next only to crude oil imports. We import
around 850 tons/year of gold costing nearly 25 billion US$. I feel
this is the most inefficient way of using our hard earned foreign
currency sent by our NRIs. Please refer my paper ‘Gold imports – A
social evil’ posted in the ‘Files’ of this Group. If this amount of
foreign currency is used on infrastructure and human assets
development, India would develop much faster than China. I request all
to convey your comments on this paper.
Regards,
N. Sasidhar