Energy Crises in Pakistan

Energy Crises in Pakistan
Is it really a classic example of vision deficit?
In a country like Pakistan where most of land basks in 12 hour sun shine, where heat dries every drop of falling water before it touches the land from hands, in larger parts of the country, where almost one fourth of country has round the year, huge wind channels and in its northern parts 100s of kilometers of long channels of water running like a horny mare……! In that unluckiest of the nation its nothing but a curse that its dwellers are dying of scorching heat in the summers and of severe cold in cool winters but there is no Electricity …its nothing but merely a vision deficit and a myopic leader ship & nothing else that we are planning rental power projects, to run on diesel and petrol or gas to kill already comatose nation which can not pay its food and clothing with ever increasing and getting scarce energy bills…..since last two years with democracy in place people are tested on razor’s edge for their passion by our political leaders, they have kept busy whole nation in Terrorism and Price hicking !! Perhaps government believes in controlling population by innovative means say by terrorism, natural disasters and by administrative manipulations that leads to starvation and death!!…. Keeping their agenda abreast they have taken all eatables out of reach of poor and they are fast taking them out of reach of middle income groups also so that Pakistan which is 7th highest populated and fastest growing nation in world ,its growth can be controlled by two prong method killed by Terrorists and with famine. There was a joke in past that in a dictators time water shortage hit high when people complained that there is no water even for Drinking purposes, the dictator leisurely replied “what a fool you are? Why don’t you drink Pepsi in place of water!” and a very recent dictator has given famous verdict about nation’s progress defying all international indicators shamelessly that in Pakistan every one has cell phone & cell phone is luxury in developed world so we are also a developed nation!! According to him Pakistan should be in G-8 & after our inclusion it should be named “G-9” Nation !!!
An other sarcastic remark was given by a philosopher Minister on the shortage of sugar that every one knows sugar causes Diabetes and many other illnesses so its better Nation should stop taking sugar !!!
This attitude reflects vision of our leaders so it is not strange when the minister for water and power is insisting to Rental power projects atleast they will save their next seven generations from any hardship for that they have no sympathy for the nation and their hardships today.
Pakistan is one of the most gifted nation in the terms of resources we have unlimited resources to tap ,if American state of Texas which is more bigger than Pakistan in area can be electrified by Sun light and wind power than what is the reason we can not, Sun light is most clean and renewable form of Energy today’s technology has miraculously developed the batteries which are more efficient and most clean than were in the past.
The second natural source for energy is wind power and we have 1700 long coastal line from Makran to Badin and inland from Thatta to Jamshoro & from Jamshoro to Kirthar range of mountains where strong wind blows all the year round and what we have to do is to harvest that natural gift by putting wind turbine on those lines for that we don’t have to import any thing we already make world class Fans in Gujrat and Gujranwala and our engineers are not so dumb !!
An other source of cheap energy is water which runs with speed in our northern areas and there are 100s of smaller, medium and large size channels in which water runs like horny mares as I already mentioned ,what we have to do is to put turbines on the way to produce hydel power from these natural resources !!!!
These and other projects like Bio-Gas are nothing knew to our think tanks ,there is an other big and cheapest stock of Thar coal which is natural and world’s largest deposit of Coal in Sindh ,if 70% of INDIA and other many countries of world can produce their energy from coal than why shouldn’t we?
A rough estimate about Thar coal is that it is more than double than combined oil & gas reservoirs of Saudi Arabia and Iran !!
And we can get free energy for our domestic and industerial purposes for next four or five hundred years !!! It is just left for your imagination that how much we will save and how much our industerial growth will benefit from just that one project alone!!!!
In past two years we have deteriorated in every sphere of life and living, our exports are declining as duration of load shedding is ever increasing, we have never seen such a huge power shortage in our lives, I do not remember load shedding in winters, what was hugely promised by Minister for water and Power is a matter of shame for him and he has no reason to continue in office as he has claimed that load shedding will not be after 2009 December !!! But things are rapidly going to wards total black out in near future if we remains in Office!!!
If he had worked sincerely for his claimed goal on Thar coal projects or on Wind turbines or on harvesting Solar energy there had been no problem and shortage of Power in country by now..!!!
It is not only lack of vision but it is clearly a case of bad intentions, corrupt mind set and severe inability which has prevented us to find a solution for current energy crises.