<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">Crispin: <br><br>You need a whipping boy. <br><br>The coal-fired power plant in Delhi was a disgrace. Anything like it would have been shut down from day one. Last time I was passing by, I tried to see if it even had a baghouse. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badarpur_Thermal_Power_Station#Power_plant">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badarpur_Thermal_Power_Station#Power_plant</a>. <br><br>Delhi buses and autorickshaws switched to Compressed Natural Gas perhaps ten years ago. Gas is the fuel of choice, imported or not. Besides, by now there should be enough transmission lines and, but for the smog, Delhi rooftop PV and PV farms nearby can easily supply enough peak capacity as this power plant now shut down. <br><br>Another PM challenge is diesel for private power. Power reliability in Delhi was the worst of any capital city I ever visited, so just about everybody who could afford it had a diesel generator and sometimes ran them on kerosene. <br><br>I last looked into Indian coal some ten years ago. Coal India is a government company and has orders - not contracts - to supply coal to government-owned power plants and industry. Coal specifications are poor and poorly adhered to. <br><br>I learned my lessons in energy policy from a retired Indian bureaucrat some 32 years ago. I had earlier been cynical about the Report of the Working Group on Energy Policy (1979). He schooled me on the historical, political and legal aspects of energy policy and I accepted that the report was all that could have been done at the time. There were major policy reforms over time, but i) the financing of the sector is a huge mess and can unsettle the whole Indian financial system, and ii) there is no planning and oversight capacity of any effect anywhere, regulators with little insight having taken over whatever oversight there remains. <br><br>We did produce polluting punditry of Nobel Laureate R K Pachauri. I don't think he was ever asked for a study on reforming India's coal sector, though. <br><br>Nikhil<br><i><br></i><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:59 AM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com">crispinpigott@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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In European Courts there was an official whipping boy. If the prince sinned and punishment was needed, the whipping boy took the whipping. </div>
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When air pollution is a problem, flog the coal-powered meme. </div>
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Instead of learning to burn local coal cleanly, they are banning it and substituting with imported natural gas, which they can't afford. It keeps the poor poor I suppose. Feeds the foreigners. </div>
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Why don't they make fuel from stover the way they do in China? Too difficult to rett and pellet?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">From Washington Post link below. <br>
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Maybe Kirk Smith can compute aDALYs for every farmer and every crop, and the Indian ministry of Health - or UN Foundation - can finance the incentives to farmers to avoid burning crop wastes. <br>
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"All it takes is a match.<br>
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One by one, in the coming days, farmers in this compact village in northern India will set fire to the straw in their freshly harvested rice fields. Pungent gray smoke will rise into the air. Then it will drift southeast toward New Delhi, thickening the smog
that has turned India’s capital into the most polluted major city in the world. <br>
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Just weeks remain before the 29 million people living in greater Delhi are plunged into their annual battle with extreme air pollution. Each November the past two years, the level of particle pollution considered most harmful to human health has spiked to more
than 30 times the limit prescribed by the World Health Organization. The air in the city remains hazy and dirty throughout the winter.<br>
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The Indian government has a new action plan in place: It just shuttered the last coal-fired power plant in Delhi and recently banned the use of certain industrial fuels within the city. On days when the pollution soars, other measures will kick in, such as
a halt to all construction activities and a ban on trucks entering Delhi."<br>
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<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fasia_pacific%2Findia-is-trying-to-prevent-apocalyptic-air-pollution-step-1-stop-farmers-from-burning-their-fields%2F2018%2F10%2F15%2F79d3fd52-cb20-11e8-ad0a-0e01efba3cc1_story.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C9e10ea7e6ad943db34ae08d6337e4f54%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636753014915479134&sdata=4w4OCWfWIZSa2zdq0c9iiYImuyX4k14500N5RS8AVjI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-is-trying-to-prevent-apocalyptic-air-pollution-step-1-stop-farmers-from-burning-their-fields/2018/10/15/79d3fd52-cb20-11e8-ad0a-0e01efba3cc1_story.html</a>? <br>
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