India is now generating more than 5 gigawatts of solar power: roughly 90% of that total is from solar power plants, with the other 10% coming from privately mounted rooftop panels. The momentum is likely to build further, with Vinay Rustagi - Managing Director of solar consultancy company Bridge to India - totting up the energy outputs of solar projects presently at various stages of commission at 15.7 GW. Ambitiously, India's central government wants a total of 100 gigawatts of solar generation by 2022, while as of July 2015 the entirety of India's power generation amounts to about 276 gigawatts.
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India's Solar Generation Surpasses the 5 GW Mark
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @12:24AM
First World: India
Second World: China
Third World: USA
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday December 07 2015, @01:58AM
I love to burst your bubble, buddy...India still has a lot to work on.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=225_1449322312
Of course, every country has its pros and cons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @02:20AM
Nice work missing the point there dude. Notice the parallel to the Cold War order.
First World Democracy
Second World Communist
Third World Shithole
Or don't notice because you're a third world shithead now dude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @02:40AM
And all this time I thought it was like this:
Old World = Europe
New World = N. America
3rd World = everywhere else
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @04:41AM
It was like this, dumbass.
1st World = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2nd World = Warsaw Pact
3rd World = unaligned idiots
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @12:19AM
You omitted USA's other alliances [google.com] with Australia & New Zealand, some Southeast Asian countries, and some Middle East countries.
...but, since those were modeled on NATO, I'd say you got the nub.
As for "idiots", a country rejecting Stalinism|Maoism as well as USA's brand of Oligarchic Capitalism (Fascism) and especially neither one's Imperialism might be considered wise.
A favorite scene from a Cold War era movie. [google.com]
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by linkdude64 on Monday December 07 2015, @02:48AM
Funny, because I didn't mention anything about democracy, the Cold War, or the completely irrelevant classification of countries into a hierarchy as first, second, or third. In fact I specifically indicated that every nation has its pros and cons. While the US commits acts of barbarism around the globe that would classify it as third world, it also is responsible for a lot of what the rest of the world enjoys today; a "First world" level of contribution, if you will. I was merely entertaining your notion - which was so foolish I mistook it as jest - that generation of electricity is the only metric by which a society should be considered "First Class."
You're a joke. Feel free to take the closing word.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Monday December 07 2015, @05:38AM
I know it is not fashionable here, and I know there are better medicines available (and I mean way way better), but you are assuming cow dung is bad because it is dung, when in reality it actually has a lot of medicinal values. I know, I have seen it up close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @02:48AM
Feel the sun.... It will keep you alive. It will give you food... it will give you warmth..... it will give you light....
All else is darkness, cold, empty, dead.
It is simple.
Sol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @04:33AM
But will it give you LSD trips?
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday December 07 2015, @05:25AM
Like two deloreans?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:32PM
so i just installed / expanded ONE solar panel at my dwelling. plus 300 Watt panel. it took me about 1.5 hours.
so let's do some back envelope calculations so we can go to the cluberment and have a good laugh at them.
we assume we are using 300 W panels to expand the capacity from 5 GW to 95 GW. that is plus 90 GW .. in 7 years.
1 panel is 300 Watt -or- 0.3 kW and is 2 by 1 meter in size.
3 kW = 10 panels
30 kW = 100 panels
...
90 GW = 300'000'000 panels
7 years is 2'555 days.
per DAY they would have to step on the little roof-top guys and award 117'416 panel installations to big solar farm companies that take free sun-light and sell it to the poor smucks that can hardly go thru the crazy-silly paperwork to get 10 panels approved ...
so ladies and gentlemen, big business equals big money and big kickbacks... 117'416 300W panels PER DAY!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @08:54PM
The fine summary says that 90% of the power is from solar power plants, which may not actually use solar panels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:42PM
Daytime generation means fuck-all if they can't store it for use at night.
Zero mention of storage or night-time supply in TFA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @07:34PM
batteries?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @07:37PM
if they can do the plus 90 GW for solar then "work days" for fossil fuel powerplants will be reduced from 24 hours to 12 hours.
or in other words, fossil fuels will last doublely as long as without solar even if there's no storage.
not perfect but sounds less radioactif too me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @10:36PM
Get them f-words in that thar post, why doncha!