My early job as an engineer was in bringing electricity to Dandeldhura some four decades ago. It was tough because one could find nothing, not even a shovel or nuts and bolts in Mahendranagar: one had to go to Palliya crossing the jungle where dacoit Phulan Devi was lurking, or even go to Lucknow for such pieces of equipment.
Physicist Amory Lovins work in the 70s chalked out differences in the pathways ahead for the energy industry and the world, if it were to adopt a ‘hard fossil-fuel and nuclear route to power its energy needs, vis-a-vis a ‘soft energy approach. His prescriptions appeared too bitter for the political-industrial complex of those times.
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