You know an electrical energy coverage is bankrupt when its advocates begin touting the virtues of carbon seize and storage.

Decades of selling the know-how, often known as CCS — which goals to filter the carbon dioxide from smokestacks and inject the air pollution deep underground — have failed to provide greater than a handful of working crops. So plans by India’s authorities assume tank Niti Aayog to seize as much of 70% of the country’s power-sector emissions must be handled as wishful pondering at finest, and harmful shortsightedness at worst. “We have abundant coal and we want to use it, in a sustainable way,” the physique’s vitality adviser Rajnath Ram informed Bloomberg News.