Hi Simmi Your Yahoo address is not verified - whatever that means.
That seems to be setting off Gmail spam filters. See screenshot attached On 03-Aug-2016 4:56 PM, "Simmi Sareen" <simmi_sar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 11:42 AM, Rajesh Mehar < > rajeshme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like everyone's thoughts on these two links below, and the idea > that without net energy consumption reduction (through de-industrialization > and reduction of automation, probably Luddite ideas in a group such as > Silk) there is no long term benefit from switching to so-called-renewables. > > How Sustainable is Solar Power? > > http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/04/how-sustainable-is-pv-solar-power.html#more > > It's certainly true that a dynamic lifecycle analysis of solar PV carbon > footprint would look much worse today than it did in 2008. But I believe > things are set to get better from here. If we look at the two sided > equation (carbon cost of manufacturing and shipping panels and returns from > deploying these panels), the first is permanently altered. There is no way > manufacturing can move away from low cost Taiwanese and Korean players. > However, deployment patterns will see a massive shift with more than 50% of > capacity additions from now to 2025 coming from China and India. > It is also a tad over-simplistic to position solar only as a replacement > for grid connected thermal power. No matter how fast the capacity addition > or how low the panel cost, high solar storage costs will ensure that solar > and conventional power continues to co-exist for a very long time. > Solar has also proven to be a accretive solution. Take, for instance, the > 60 million Indian households with no access to electricity. Conventional > grid is too expensive to build here, micro wind and biogas have both been > ineffective so solar micro-grids are the only way these villagers are > going to get lights, fans and mobile chargers. If a slightly higher carbon > footprint but a significantly lower cost from Chinese manufacturers makes > this solution possible, it's a huge benefit. > > > >
