Bussard Ramjet
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Ok. But instead of spending the money on coal fired plants, solar energy was the way to go. It would have been better if you guys had insisted on this instead of agreeing to installing polluting coal plants.
India for example, as part of its Union Budget 2015-2016, aims to install 60 GW of wind power capacity and 100 GW of solar power capacity by 2022, which is more than six times the current installed capacities of approximately 22GW and 3GW, respectively, thus reducing the dependence on coal.
You reasoning is spot on, and it has already been remarked upon in Pakistan itself by some of their columnists, but one of the pertinent points that you have ignored here is the stage of development.
For Pakistan of today, there main issue and task is getting cheap electricity with minimum capital load. Nuclear Power requires HUGE initial capital investment, which a developing, terrorist prone country with a dismal debt record, someone like Pakistan cann't afford in huge amount. Pakistan has to pay upwards of 15% interest on commercial international loans. And the agencies that provide cheap funds like the IMF, World Bank, and AIIB don't do in that amount.