Energy Security - Approaches of India and China

[altenergygeek]

How are India and China going to manage their growing energy requirements as they economies grow at incredible speeds? Both countries will do many new things, but most likely each will follow different courses...

Both countries are likely to more eagerly court the oil producing countries, whether or not they like it. Both countries are likely to place higher emphasis on renewable energy. Beyond these two major approaches however, the specifics for each country could be quite different (here's a presentation that provides India's perspective on this).

One can expect India to be a bit more sensitive to world opinion in this regard than China, and I guess that should not really surprise anyone.

What are your thoughts on how India and China's approaches to ensure their nations' energy security?

[rangertab1]

altenergygeek, I appreciate your interests in worldly events. Humanity's current, self-created predicament is certainly worth discussion within some forum groups. How it relates to this forum and this category within the forum is beyond me. Goodluck with your discussion.

[curiousgeorge]

India:

* India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power program and expects to have 20,000 MWe nuclear capacity on line by 2020 and 63,000 MWe by 2032. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050.
* Because India is outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its weapons program, it was for 34 years largely excluded from trade in nuclear plant or materials, which has hampered its development of civil nuclear energy until 2009.
* Due to these trade bans and lack of indigenous uranium, India has uniquely been developing a nuclear fuel cycle to exploit its reserves of thorium.
* Now, foreign technology and fuel are expected to boost India's nuclear power plans considerably. All plants will have high indigenous engineering content.
* India has a vision of becoming a world leader in nuclear technology due to its expertise in fast reactors and thorium fuel cycle. www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf53.html

Investors will not jump into a risky niche market like solar, or wind as long as their are other investments with a better payback.