primary energy sources - coal, nuclear and hydro - with solar energy. They then calculated the percentage of India's land area that would be required
to meet the future projected energy demand.
Coal power plants not only transform the land around the facility but also require land for mining coal and its upstream processing, the authors
note. An average dam displaces 31,340 persons and submerges 8,748 hectares of land. The direct land footprint of a nuclear power plant includes power
plant area, buffer zone, waste disposal area and the land that goes into mining uranium.
"Our study shows that solar power plants require less land in comparison to hydro-power plants and are comparable with coal and nuclear energy power
generation when life-cycle transformations are considered," Srinivasan said.
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The above evaluation may not hold true for countries that lie away from the
tropics!?
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India can Meet Energy Needs Without N-Plants
Convinced that sunlight differs from other energy sources in the way it uses the land, the researchers compared the land-use pattern of three
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