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It is a tragedy only if you are the public. For those in power, it is a great system that gives them every privilege, many for free.

No. It is more money in certain pockets if the existing monopolies are given a free hand to violate the people's pocketbooks to give them substandard products and services.

No body can claim any morality in international geopolitics. The USA is very clear and honest in declaring its prime and permanent motivation: the unrelenting pursuit of national interest. Simple, logical and effective.

Why? Those in government are part and parcel of the cartel!

The duties exist to maintain and promote the local monopolies to benefit a select few. The car buying public be damned.

You should consider reading through this authoritative source on Thar coal in addition to the above: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABU473.pdf

My opinions are based on facts, and the fact remains that Thar coal is not a suitable energy source for us given our present constraints, nor will it be easy for us to exploit in the foreseeable future as well. Sorry.

I said 5 to 10 thousand MW. We would be lucky to see even 100MW from Thar over the next 10 years. Very lucky. It just ain't gonna happen, methinks.

Isn't CAS-1000 the same HT line for which all international financing was withdrawn? Do you you really think there is a whole line of investors looking to generate 5 to 10 thousand MW of power from Thar coal? I don't think so.

"All" projects in Thar? Which projects would that be? The 50,000MW promised by Dr. Mand from gasification? Economy of scale? Just how much power do you think we can get from Thar coal? That RWE study you keep mentioning produces only 1,000MW on-site. What else can be done? BTW, what do you...

Okay, good. Now that we have an on-site powerplant burning locally mined Thar coal, we need to connect it to the national grid. So does the cost of the HT lines become part of the financial calculations for the entire project or not? You ship the coal or you ship the power, either way the...

I will maintain that Thar coal is of too poor quality to be exploited on a cost-effective basis, until and unless any concrete progress is made:

The best thing for you would be to consider completing your higher education first.

Feasible or not feasible is not a binary decision. It all depends on the degree of feasibility depending on various factors, the most important of which is the final cost per unit of power made available to the grid. Thar coal simply is too far down in this list to be competitive with other...

So the total number of casualties (military, civilian, insurgents) within Pakistan is approaching 100,000?

YOu brought up Bhahsha, I did not. My point about Thar Coal lying untapped is still valid. Please see below: The fact remains that energy produced by using Thar coal has to be cost-effective compared to other forms of power generation available to us as a country. As long as other forms...

We simply do not have any money to start any such large scale projects. None. And the only projects that may or may not start will need foreign financing. Which will happen only if the projects, Thar, Bhasha or anything else, is feasible. Red tape is only a minor issue. The lack of money is the...

So is there a contract to lay down the HT lines under process? Or not even that?

This is the actual 367-80, the only one ever built: NASM-Dulles-8927 by ArgusPanoptes007, on Flickr The only things common with the B-52 were the pod-mounted engines and the swept wings. The 35-degree wing sweep actually debuted on the earlier B-47, not the B-52. (The B-47 had inner...

IF that is true, when is the ground-breaking ceremony after signing a formal and financed contract?