{"id":633501,"date":"2024-02-08T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=633501"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:57:25","slug":"india-is-scorning-the-energy-bounty-that-helped-to-transform-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-is-scorning-the-energy-bounty-that-helped-to-transform-china\/","title":{"rendered":"India is scorning the energy bounty that helped to transform China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know an electricity policy is bankrupt when its advocates start touting the virtues of carbon capture and storage. <\/p>\n<p>Decades of promoting the technology, also known as CCS \u2014 which aims to filter the carbon dioxide from smokestacks and inject the pollution deep underground \u2014 have failed to produce more than a handful of operating plants. So plans by India\u2019s government think tank Niti Aayog to capture as much of 70 per cent of the country\u2019s power-sector emissions should be treated as wishful thinking at best, and dangerous shortsightedness at worst. \u201cWe have abundant coal and we want to use it, in a sustainable way,\u201d the body\u2019s energy adviser Rajnath Ram told Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know an electricity policy is bankrupt when its advocates start touting the virtues of carbon capture and storage. Decades of promoting the technology, also known as CCS \u2014 which aims to filter the carbon dioxide from smokestacks and inject the pollution deep underground \u2014 have failed to produce more than a handful of operating plants. So plans by India\u2019s government think tank Niti Aayog to capture as much of 70 per cent of the country\u2019s power-sector emissions should be treated as wishful thinking at best, and dangerous shortsightedness at worst. \u201cWe have abundant coal and we want to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}