Paddy Marketing Board and Coal Marketing Board

Below is piece in one of my books not related to paddy or coal raised may moons ago.

Paddy Marketing Board and Coal Marketing Board

This is another word I would like to add to English, if it is not there already, in existence.

This time in the Scientific World.

We had an Engineering Exhibition in the University, I do not know what was being exhibited there but my gut feeling says, that they are all big events for public consumption and certainly not miniature exhibits of biological nature. I am pretty sure they did not talk about biophysics and nano-technology.

I have been against the coal power project form its inception. I have many reasons including acid rain and I have stated that Coal Marketing Board will be as bad as the Paddy Marketing Board of yesteryear and its corruption scale would be immense unlike the paddy seeds.

Suffice is to say that most of the coal would wind up in undesirable places and the scale of corruption will be covered by black soot.

How black soot will effect our children's chest physiology and sporting outcomes are a different kettle of fish. I have voiced these concerns with scientific data as a yesteryear pediatrician but they would be pushed under the carpet of politics.

One pertinent question our energy planners did not address is that these coal power plants are operational 24 hours a day and the interruption of nocturnal terrestrial cooling effect that is necessary for air circulation and water condensation and the night rain pattern that we used enjoy would be disturbed drastically due to constantly warm stagnant air currents. This inherent circulation and re-circulation in opposite direction invariably purified the air of soot, dirt and chemicals.

The adverse effect of coal burning is phenomenal.

As long as the rain is there, even with infrequent interval with somewhat disturbed patterns then, there is going to be some reclamation.

But think of the scenario for some reason or the other, if the rain fails for a period of two years with drought. Then we have to use more and more coal power to generate power.

In fact, it sets in a vicious cycle.

The conditions conducive for catastrophic and unpredictable events would ensue.

When, the nocturnal cooling effect is negated for a prolonged period of time, the pollution of clinical scale sets in.

This is already happening in China and India.