What if it was your only option? The banks have been given a financial bailout, however what about the rest of the suffering business economy in general? Literally a year worth of downward upside down stock portfolio’s. Trillions of $$ Dollars were lost and sure not a result of outsourcing.

I think we need to diversify ourselves and become pioneers of the future together rather than continuing to be adverse!

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We all know that the government isn’t really worried about what’s financially viable or not. Is the war financially viable? Are the Nanasela’s financially viable?

It’s not about the financial viability. It’s more in the lines of inefficiency of the government sector and the short-term vote insecurities of politicians.

Remember what happened to the norrachchale power plant?

The Upper kotmale hydro powerplant is worse. According to the project engineer at Upper kotmale;

“It was capable of generating 528 GWh (Giga Watt Hours) or Million units of electricity per annum with 5 other tributary diversions namely Devon Oya, St. Andrew’s Oya, Pundalu Oya, Puna Oya and Ramboda Oya along with the main intake of Kotmala Oya.
Now only Kotmala Oya is diverted and all other diversions are cancelled thanks to the ill advised and ill informed lobbying by interested parties .Now the generation capability per year has dropped to 409 GWh – that is the sacrifice we had to do at enormous economic cost.”

And why do you think Nuclear Power (which is supposed to be “greener” than all other power sources) isn’t even thought of?

http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2006/02/23/grameen-and-segway-team-up-to-produce-micro-entrepreneurial-slingshot
http://www.dekaresearch.com/coreTech.html

In many rural setups the demand is less than what financially viable. (where the houses are far and household demand is low) These villages too are supplied power from the national grid, with significant impact to the grid and other consumers, because it is a sure way to win votes.

A more sensible approach is to use other local solutions (micro hydro, wind power etc) for village areas without burdening the national grid. The difficulty is the relatively higher cost of a unit when the generation is low. So whether anyone likes it or not over-burdening national grid will continue.

This explains why electricity still remains a state monopoly in many South Asian countries that have liberalized the telecom sectors. The markets at the BOP are too low and the costs are too high for private alternative power generators to enter. So I guess effective rural electrification will remain a dream for some more time to come.