True, but in reality what can India do ? Its position on the Globe puts it directly in "harms way", they could cut carbon to 0 but that would not really help them. As long as all other countries are opening up Coal Plants (China) and more Oil Fields (US), places like this will feel a lot of pain.

> but that would not really help them

But it would? It wouldn't solve the problem, but it would be part of not making it worse.

Going to 0 carbon is not free, otherwise every country would be doing it.

That doesn't change the fact that reducing carbon emissions would help with the problem.

Why not nuclear?

India has 6 or so, Nuclear Power stations under construction, they will come online soon.

no can do. too scary ,see Chernobyl and Fukushima

Virtually, no one died because of those disasters, surprisingly. Nuclear is infinitely safer than most other forms of energy and it has a better environmental footprint.

The urban legend is, the weather reports hide the actual upper temperatures (replacing them with lower temps) because the true numbers would drive more farmers to suicide...

At least the fact that the heat/dryness lead to suicide is true, although I can't verify if they would give up after hearing the weather predictions or after their crops failed:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=india+hot+weather+farmer+suicides&...

Well this was a morbid comment...

Farmers don’t own thermometers?

Bob Dylan says "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows".

The Indian government is funding implementation of Dense Plasma Focus devices which harness energy from a Plasmoid. Apparently, these power generators can fit on a large truck. I wonder what the current status of this is.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/focus-fusion-is-the-hottest-id...

>The Indian state's persistent denial of science and criticism will continue to cost Indians their lives. It happened during COVID and will happen again in years to come.

Perhaps this isn't an issue for the Gov. India losing 100-300 million people due to some catastrophic event would probably not even be noticed since it will be the poorest part of the population that will suffer the consequences.The only possibilities for salvation I can see is clean, renewable, endless energy or mass human migration to more temperate regions of the world.

Uh, you're forgetting the logistics of dealing with the losses of 100-300 million people. Look at how COVID-19 filled morgues globally. India is in absolutely no position to deal with the logistics of a loss of life on that scale, and thus it would absolutely be noticed, disease spreading rapidly, creating a secondary humanitarian crisis.

India relies on Coal because it does not have NG infrastructure, and with Ukraine war, the NG market shot-up in price because EU has basically bid-up the traditional NG suppliers to Global South.

Remember when you take Carbon emissions per Capita, India is no where near China or US. So people pissing on India should know better, but they will any way because they an axe to grind.

> There is a worse problem here - heat causes electric power demand to rise. No gigawatt-scale power grid anywhere on the planet has supplied increased demand through renewables.

I expect that, for India, the solution will be to build a thousand megawatt-scale power grids, or, more likely, millions of sub-kilowatt-scale power grids.

Connect a solar panel to a battery and an AC unit, and you have a standalone AC unit that works whenever there’s lots of sun, and in India that correlates reasonably well to ‘whenever it’s scorching hot’.

With solar already cheaper to build than running _existing_ coal plants in India (https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/report-its-now-ch...), I expect that to even be economical, even if such standalone units waste energy if there’s sun but not need for AC.

it's not that simple and never is. Solar panels operate at peak power for around one hour per day. Adding tracking is not cheap or trivial.

I regularly point out that those "prices" of renewable energy are predicated on a VERY important assumption - that the rest of the grid exists to deliver power when the renewable generators are not running. That has a cost and it not currently attributed to the source of the problem - the renewable generators. Rather, you and i pay that price.

If you are genuinely concerned about protecting the planet, how about completely banning all kinds of meat especially beef since they cause the largest amount of Co's production and why not shut down the coal power plants in whichever rich part of the world you are from. Statistically speaking those would be of greater help than this random take

Indian state is one of the most useful for science and hence pursue vegetarianism and concepts like Life.

If you want perhaps start by yourself and reduce your carbon footprint.