India should tap solar energy: Berkeley prof- 07 December 2011, The Times of India

December 7, 2011 by Climate portal editor Leave a Comment

KOLKATA: India receives nearly 600TW of solar energy over its land every year. Even if the country were to tap a tenth of this, it would be the end of power woes, believes Graham R Fleming, VC for Research, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

India should tap solar energy: Berkeley prof

Between contemplation and climate

Whether or not the USA, Europe, the Western world, the industrialised Eastern world (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan), adhere to or not their paltry promises about being more responsible concerning the factors that lead to climate change, is of very little concern to us. We have never set any store by international agreements on climate […]

The ‘Hindu’, ignorant about weather and climate, but runs down IMD

We find objectionable the report by ‘The Hindu’ daily newspaper accusing the India Meteorological Department of scientific shortcoming (‘IMD gets its August forecast wrong’, 1 September 2016). The report claims that the IMD in June 2016 had forecast that rains for August would be more than usual but that the recorded rain was less than […]

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