[Cronos]

India should push ahead with solar power generation. With the massive Thar desert it can generate loads of electricity.

Add in solar panels in its Deccan areas and it could eliminate imported fuels and be self sufficient in energy

[Spktyr]

One of the problem with most solar energy schemes - you have to have a source of water to wash dirt and dust and other foreign debris off the panels (photovoltaic or reflective).

What substance is hard to find in a desert?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Still nowhere near enough. The world will need 25x more lithium than exists to be mined. Ditto cobalt and vanadium.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/new_geological_study_proves_that_the_green_energy_movement_is_impossible_to_achieve.html

And no country anywhere can achieve energy independence based on intermittent technologies like solar and wind anyway. Every grid MUST have continuous base-load generation capability, which means fossil fuels or nuclear. Period, end of story.

Cobalt and vanadium are essential for high strength steels. Divert them to “green energy” products and we will have a 19th century technology. Which to our globalist elites is a feature, not a bug.

But meanwhile those same elites will reap fantastic personal profits chasing the opium dream of “green power”.