For your EYEs to read
Attended a lecture on Energy sector condition (esp in U.P.) by a person (Mr. Rakesh Goel, an IT-BHU graduate) who has worked for almost 2 decades at grassroots level. He also holds industrial experience of working at various power plants.
Before going to my lecture notes, what Rakesh told has helped me decide how I want my dead body to be disposed off. I hope it will help you too.
Wood used in a funeral pyre - 350 Kg
Method of Funeral Pyreenergy consumedtraditional wood based funeral pyre1575 kWhelectric crematorium55 kWhgas crematorium30 kWhoil furnace< 30 kWhsolar crematorium (1 in Gujarat)ZEROother methods - Graveyards are a waste of land, vultures are almost extinct alternative - bury the dead body in a forest and forget it. If you love the person so much in the first place, better serve him when he is alive.
I was anyway shortly going to sign for organ donation post-death.
Now, whatever remains after that, I would like it to be fed to forest.
I told it to some of my batchmates and their first reaction was - why worry about death now?
2nd worry - hospitals might get more interested in declaring them dead to obtain the organs.
3rd worry - who the organ would go to?
4th worry - when i die old, would it at all be useful to anybody else?
4th question - how much forest is being deprived because of funerals. if it is very less, why touch the religious sentiment. As per reports [ 1][2], India has 630,000 sq km forest left. Out of it, funeral pyres take away 2000 sq km every year!!! 5 out of 15 of our bio-reserves have area less than or equal to that.
I wonder whether the questions raised above should stop a person to sign for the cause of organ donation or "no funeral pyre". I only see it in one way - "MY ORGAN that would have gone waste MIGHT SAVE A LIFE" PLUS "I would not want to be a polluting SINNER TO NATURE at least when I DIE. TO ME NATURE IS THE CLOSEST GOD CAN BE TO US"
Following are some of teh facts I noted down -
Solar power has become a viable option for daily light needs due to LED technology
Sonbhadra district, an energy hub to India, generating 11000 MW has its own people deprived of power.
Power availability statistics in the state of UP
Nature of AvailabilityPeople/HouseholdsUninterrupted supply 35 LakhsIntermittent Supply (4-8 hrs/day)800 LakhsNo Supply900 Lakhs
Till 1990, India and China had equal amount of power generation. Now, China is generating six times the power India generates. In terms of renewable energy too, they are generating double the amount we do. The speaker raised doubts that the reason behind China's growth is ONLY DICTATORSHIP remarking one of our own BiMaRU states as a dictatorship existing in a democracy.
Kerosene subsidy makes it commercially infeasible for solar power solutions like solar power lantern to reach the masses who face the following facts -
Before going to my lecture notes, what Rakesh told has helped me decide how I want my dead body to be disposed off. I hope it will help you too.
Wood used in a funeral pyre - 350 Kg
Method of Funeral Pyreenergy consumedtraditional wood based funeral pyre1575 kWhelectric crematorium55 kWhgas crematorium30 kWhoil furnace< 30 kWhsolar crematorium (1 in Gujarat)ZEROother methods - Graveyards are a waste of land, vultures are almost extinct alternative - bury the dead body in a forest and forget it. If you love the person so much in the first place, better serve him when he is alive.
I was anyway shortly going to sign for organ donation post-death.
Now, whatever remains after that, I would like it to be fed to forest.
I told it to some of my batchmates and their first reaction was - why worry about death now?
2nd worry - hospitals might get more interested in declaring them dead to obtain the organs.
3rd worry - who the organ would go to?
4th worry - when i die old, would it at all be useful to anybody else?
4th question - how much forest is being deprived because of funerals. if it is very less, why touch the religious sentiment. As per reports [ 1][2], India has 630,000 sq km forest left. Out of it, funeral pyres take away 2000 sq km every year!!! 5 out of 15 of our bio-reserves have area less than or equal to that.
I wonder whether the questions raised above should stop a person to sign for the cause of organ donation or "no funeral pyre". I only see it in one way - "MY ORGAN that would have gone waste MIGHT SAVE A LIFE" PLUS "I would not want to be a polluting SINNER TO NATURE at least when I DIE. TO ME NATURE IS THE CLOSEST GOD CAN BE TO US"
Following are some of teh facts I noted down -
Solar power has become a viable option for daily light needs due to LED technology
Sonbhadra district, an energy hub to India, generating 11000 MW has its own people deprived of power.
Power availability statistics in the state of UP
Nature of AvailabilityPeople/HouseholdsUninterrupted supply 35 LakhsIntermittent Supply (4-8 hrs/day)800 LakhsNo Supply900 Lakhs
Till 1990, India and China had equal amount of power generation. Now, China is generating six times the power India generates. In terms of renewable energy too, they are generating double the amount we do. The speaker raised doubts that the reason behind China's growth is ONLY DICTATORSHIP remarking one of our own BiMaRU states as a dictatorship existing in a democracy.
Kerosene subsidy makes it commercially infeasible for solar power solutions like solar power lantern to reach the masses who face the following facts -
- Smoke from the burning kerosene is deteriorating health of the masses
- 30000 people die every year due to kerosene accidents
- The rationed kerosene doesn't reaches its intended recipients and whatever reaches is insufficient.
- Many of the rural people are sent electricity bills(fixed cost) while they get electricity connection serving almost no power.
- On paper, govt has invested heavily in solar lanterns but the reality is starkly different. Out of the sanctioned lanterns, whatever reaches the masses is of poor quality with no maintenance support. After few months, these lanterns become useless earning bad name for technology.