Comments on: India Throws More Support behind Clean Energy

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:40:00 +0000

Thanks. You guys have been, for the most part, very kind when pointing out mistakes. I just feel like and idiotic when i see them and can’t believe i make them! But following on top of you comment, aside from valuing the discussions that follow some posts, I learn a ton from you all — i really appreciate the extra knowledge you all share way down here in the comments.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:12:00 +0000

How about we give Zach some love here…

His budget does not allow for a paid editor/proofreader. And the volume of what he brings us must eat into the time he has available.

I’m not aware of another site where the person running it is so responsive to fixing mistakes. Most writers seem to use a “dump and run”, never acknowledging or correcting a mistake.

It’s rare to see someone so frequently interacting with their readers. A little volunteer proofreading on our parts would be a small donation to what I see as a valuable news source.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:19:00 +0000

i’m really sorry, i have no idea how these typos sneak in there! when editing others’ articles, i’m often shocked at the typos, but i’m double-shocked when i go back to an article of mine (or get caught in the comments) and see one like this! unfort., my only proofreader beyond myself is you readers — so please keep catching anything completely idiotic that my fingers somehow create!

By: PK Kaushal

PK Kaushal — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:45:00 +0000

Encouraging roof top solar installations particularly in villages and remote areas in India where people hardly have 5-6 hours a day access to grid power, would be key to efforts for climate change. Development of policy for net metering permitting villagers to pump solar power to grid at higher cost on lines of many europian countries would give a big boost to clean power solutions in India

By: rommel43

rommel43 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:44:00 +0000

Based on a related article i figured out that it is a typo and is suppose to be MW

By: Bill_Woods

Bill_Woods — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:16:00 +0000

Probably a typo/thinko: GW for MW.

20,000 GW-h/year would be an average power of only 2.3 GW.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:10:00 +0000

From Wiki –

“The electricity sector in India had an installed capacity of 185.5 Gigawatt (GW) as of November 2011″

I suspect some extra zeros snuck into that sentence.

Or perhaps it should have been 20,000 GWh annual. 54.8 GWh per day.

By: rommel43

rommel43 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Quick question is it a typo when you say they want to install 20k GW because wouldnt that be the total consumption of the world?