Need to rely on increasing power from renewable energy sources
Chennai (PTI): India need to switch over from Thermal power generation to other renewable energy sources due to fast decreasing coal deposits around the world and its high carbon emissions, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said on wednesday.
"Nuclear energy, solar energy, wind energy and bio-fuel are going to be the future of power generation as the available coal may cease by 2050," he said at a session with school students at a programme organised by leading Tamil daily, Dinamalar.
"In fact, thermal power constitutes 70 per cent of India's power generation," he said, answering a question by a Corporation School student, wanting to know why more thermal power projects were coming up in India, especially Tamil Nadu, "despite reports about the pollution they cause".
When a 11th standard student asked if Kalam's birthday could be declared as `Youth Day', the former President evaded a direct response, but said, "When 54 crore youth of this country make it a powerful nation, that day can be celebrated as "Victory Day."
To a question on the need of medium of instruction, Kalam said though one can have school education in their mother tongue, higher education should be in English.
"English is the connecting language, spoken in many parts of the world," Kalam said and recalled that he had his school education in Tamil and did his engineering course in English.
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