Coal Fired Power Plant
After 40-50 years, the condition of people at tropical region would be like this.
We are going from most populated to most polluted nation if nothing will be done . Global warming is the most detrimental type of nature's calamityinduced by unnatural activity and is a threat to whole world now. We are preparing ourselves to abort any kind of nuclear attack from our enemies but we have to realize that we are the enemy of our own. Are we prepared to face it? I guess no and because there is no cure but only prevention to this, we have to act now. In the journey of developing India, power is playing an important role. And we are doing everything possible to make upto the need of growing India. Setting up power plant, but are these power plant eco-friendly. I am afraid no. Because maximum of them are coal fired. So effectively we have done nothing and not doing anything to prevent the surging heat. Let's take up a brief look at how these power plant contribute to Global temperature through their wastes and effluents. A single 1000 MW(e) coal plant emits some 6 000 000 tonnes of CO2 annually. A 1000 MW(e) coal plant, depending on sulphur content, on average produces annually 44 000 tonnes of sulphur oxides and 22 000 tonnes of nitrous oxides that are dispersed into the atmosphere. Additionally, there are 320 000 tones of ash containing 400 tonnes of heavy metals. May be these are the excerpts of data taken from IAEA's official website, but do we make considerations of these while deciding the source of power. If so then why don't we move to other sources of energy like Hydro or Nuclear.
Well the greehouse gases are not only the outcome of combustion of fossil fuels but also the new form of land use and modern agriculture practice.
The transition would be something like this.
Although, Govt. is busy in distributing the tenders for setting up the power plant to private sectors or PSUs but is it really concerned about paying attention to the after effects on nature. Moreover, instead of looking for alternate sources of its own, Govt. is looking towards its counterpart like US to come up with ideas, which might be indeed brought up by some Indian living there, to adopt. Well is that it? Nothing else. I wonder there nothing else.
Instead of blaming other nations for greater emission of harmful gases, I think it is the time India come up with befitting reply to the world community with its active participation in reducing greenhouse gases and proving itself to be a future leader.
Otherwise we all have to be geared up to face the sweltering condition ahead.
So work together to make this earth a better place to live but not to leave.
