> India has such a coal shortage they are making a pivot faster than many people think to Solar and Nuclear. I'm sorry but those claims are so far out of phase

> India has such a coal shortage they are making a pivot faster than many people think to Solar and Nuclear. I'm sorry but those claims are so far out of phase with reality I have to respond. India's response to coal supply problems is to grow coal mining at double digit rates. India is opening a new coal mine every month with the goal of doubling already large coal production in the next five years. http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/india-opening-coal-mines-will-surpass-u-s-in-coal-production/ http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/india-opening... This means that by the time the next US president tries to get reelected India will be producing more coal than the US. India is definitely not "pivoting" to renewables. If there is a "pivot" it is toward domestic coal over foreign coal. The amount of new coal generation capacity under construction now is almost five times the approved (as opposed to under construction) nuclear and renewable capacity combined. Details here: http://www.industry.gov.au/Office-of-the-Chief-Economist/Publications/Documents/Coal-in-India.pdf http://www.industry.gov.au/Office-of-the-Chief-Economist/Pub... And some large fraction of the approved renewable capacity is window dressing so renewable proponents and climate negotiators can make the claims you offered here. It won't be built. Ten years from now India will have doubled it coal generation and that same token amount of 'approved' renewable capacity will still be on the books. India is all about coal and India knows it. India just told Obama and the rest of the climate elites in Paris to sod off with their "carbon imperialism." India has no intention of ruining its growth on behalf of Western anxieties. Right or wrong, that's reality.