Friday, October 09, 2015

India's carbon dioxide emissions

Via BRF, an Economist article, and this graphic below.
A quote from the article:
India’s programme to subsidise the replacement of 400m cheap incandescent light bulbs with dearer LED ones would save 6,000 megawatts of installed capacity—equivalent to the entire electricity-generating capacity of Nigeria.


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Eli Rabett · 494 weeks ago

This is all up front cost, rather than a continuing replacement of incandescents. One of the hidden issues with renewables is that all of the cost is capital, while with fossil fuels you have to keep paying for the coal and oil. Thus, in terms of outside help/investment renewables are often a lot cheaper to the developing countries.

Also LEDs can work on relatively low power installations such as windmills or solar cells with a battery

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