Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

[Prem]

All i want from Modi is to bring in the policies in action to achieve energy independence to India. UPA and the other Koop PA politicians have this agenda of keeping power deficit in India in prepetyity to take their cut.100s of Billion we send out annually to not good fellows can be invested at home. This one ahcivement will be equal to washing , cleaning half of the Darider of last one millenium.
Is it too much to ask?

[nachiket]

You can not expect there to be zero opposition to Modi, on his present path he is too polarizing.

What polarizing thing has NaMo done on his "present path"? Of course for some people in India, Modi's mere existence is polarizing. I am assuming you are not one of them.

[VikramS]

I find all this talk of core ideology disconcerting.

What Bharat needs is development which instills self-respect. If the basic needs of people are met, and there is a sense of swabhiman, Bharat will thrive. While a strong ideological leaning can help give you that self-respect, in the Indian context it is less likely to succeed.

That is why I strongly believe that the IndiaFirst notion of NaMo. If India is strong, Bharat will be strong.

And on a personal perspective, I think defenders of Bharat should do a lot more to make sure that the vulnerable sections get the opportunities which keeps them Bharatiya. If they do not, then no amount of ideological conviction can help.

[VikramS]

You can not expect there to be zero opposition to Modi, on his present path he is too polarizing.

What polarizing thing has NaMo done on his "present path"? Of course for some people in India, Modi's mere existence is polarizing. I am assuming you are not one of them.

Yes Theo Sar please articulate that. I had asked this question earlier also. Even if you feel it will get you too many bricks, please do stand up for what you believe.

[vijayk]

This is what all we have to realize.

http://www.newsinsight.net/Flailingstat ... age=page-1

New Delhi: Politically, economically and militarily, India is in free fall. The United Progressive Alliance government will leave behind an almost failed state when it finishes term next year. Even if Narendra Modi becomes prime minister thereafter, he would have to strain his genius to put India again on rails. Between Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, they have done a spectacular job of undermining the Indian ship of state.

Scan the headlines of the past ten days:

• A punk state like Italy cocks a snook at India, refusing to send back the two marines who killed two Indian fishermen. Because Sonia Gandhi is Italy-born, the government is embarrassed, but it doesn’t cover itself with subsequent glory. Anger is focused on the envoy who gave sovereign guarantees for the return of the killers after casting votes in the recent Italian elections, not on Italy. Rather than instantly expelling him and downgrading ties, the government hides behind the Supreme Court. The marines will not come back, and India has been slapped on both cheeks. To go running to the European Union to mediate is rank ignominious.

• Weeks after the beheading of an Indian soldier on the border with Pakistan, the foreign minister, Salman Khursheed, lunches with its prime minister on his private visit to the Ajmer dargah. There are smiling faces for the photographs. The Pakistan prime minister has barely returned to his country than terrorists kill CRPF jawans in Srinagar. On the heels of the incident, Pakistan’s national assembly passes a resolution condemning the hanging of Afzal Guru, which rankles India. Why was the Pakistan PM feted in the first place? Did Khursheed forget the decapitation? That’s another slap on the Indian face.

• Turn to the economy. It is in the doldrums. There are enough private bankers (although after the Cobrapost expose, they should all be suspect) who say privately that India qualifies for junk status, one step below where it is presently placed. Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh are squarely responsible for this mess, and it is beyond P.Chidambaram to save the situation. Votebank schemes like NREGA have bled the exchequer without bringing gains to the economy like skill development and assets creation, whilst entrepreneurship has been savaged by inspector raj, corruption, high interest rates, and banks’ unwillingness to lend to labour-intensive, risk-taking small-and-medium enterprises. Aside from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Maharashtra to an extent, manufacturing is nearly dead. Rating agencies are turning the screws on the government to improve the foreign investment climate. Standard & Poor’s thumbs down to growth prospects tumbled Indian stock-markets today. Meanwhile, high inflation won’t let up, and the loot continues. After rape, Delhi may well qualify as the bribe capital of India and the world. Bad news that doesn’t get better.

• Then consider the spectacle of the Union home minister, Sushilkumar Shinde. He reads the same statement on the Srinagar killings twice over in Parliament, unaware of what he is doing. He is the butt of jokes in the home ministry. With Shinde as home minister, you and I have no business to be resting at night. Under him, and under the United Progressive Alliance regime, it is open sesame for the Pakistani terrorists. Precisely because he is incompetent, Sonia Gandhi keeps him as home minister. One man’s poison becomes another man’s meat. • Next, check the neighbourhood. The minority Hindus are being attacked and killed in their homes in Bangladesh, but not even a whimper from the government. India’s policies in Sri Lanka run counter to the interests of Tamils who are, at the end of the day, this country’s strategic forward assets. Maldives has secretly threatened India to go with China should it not cease championing the cause of democracy in the island nation and of its deposed president, Mohamed Nasheed. In Nepal, we are no more sure-footed, and Afghanistan will sink our humanitarian investments once the Americans leave and the Taliban take over. Pakistan has become an even more implacable foe as it self-destructs with terrorism and Shia-Sunni sectarianism.

• Finally, in a crunch, the military will defend India and its integrity to the last soldier and the remotest territorial inch, but the government has ill-served it. The previous army chief was victimized partly for his honesty. His near-contemporary as air force chief is now wanted for helicopter bribes. Defence corruption not only has rotted the higher commands but reached unit levels with the greater involvement of private contractors. Officer-jawan ties are at their most fraught, since development, education and social rise have made impossible the previous abject subordination of the non-officer classes, who have also come to abhor the brass’s “five-star culture”. Respecting war-preparedness, gaps in military equipage have become more critical, made worse by lack of political will to confront enemy action and hostile intentions. The government has turned a blind eye to the decline of the armed forces, which sends wrong signals to the neighbourhood and beyond.

[RamaY]

^
Yet we have many Indians, even forum members (who we assume to be more informed than Salman Kurshit and Shinde the slave) think they would vote for the parties belonging to Congress system because they think Hindu majorityism is a threat for the nation (based on what? Because a Christian Hitler killed millions of Jews and Muslim invaders killed and enslaved millions of Hindus).

And we complain if someone questions their patriotism....

[Vayutuvan]

Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul

It would be sagacious not to underestimate both of them. If some of you have guessed that I would have had a chance to run into them, then you guessed right. They had been after CM Modi for almost a decade now. It was oh 7-8 years back, the first and second authors of the this opinion piece tried intimidation (using their position as professors at the University) and splittist ("bhEda") tactics to barge into a private gathering and protest what happened in Gujarat. I did not (and do not have to this day) an opinion one way or other regarding the "original sin" of gOdhAra and the subsequent opening of the Pandora's box. That said, I was certainly unhappy about the way these honorable women tried to intimidate a set of peaceful people going about exercising their freedom of religion guaranteed by the US constitution. Some in our group were intimidated but I went ahead and put an abrupt stop to these honorable people's enterprise with backing from Voltaire and the the US constitution.

Prof. Kaul is an honorable man but he never came back with a robust reply. May be his being a ghulam of the firang patricians and my being a ghulam of the the Carthagian satrap Nizam-ul-mulk has something to do with, I wonder.

"fac et aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum"

Given that he is an acclaimed "Shakespearean Scholar" he could be a cats paw of the British elite. Kasmiri pandit background does not rule out Stockholm Syndrome.

They that have done this deed are honorable: what private griefs they have, alas, I know not, that made them do it : they are wise and honorable, and will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.

[RamaY]

OK some good news!

As part of the non-confidence motion against INc's KKR govt, MIM absconded the voting. The reason given was they did not like YSRCP, TRS joined BJP in the process.

And Owaisi guys says BJP is aiming 30 seats in AP as part NM's plan to become PM of India.

[Muppalla]

OK some good news!

As part of the non-confidence motion against INc's KKR govt, MIM absconded the voting. The reason given was they did not like YSRCP, TRS joined BJP in the process.

And Owaisi guys says BJP is aiming 30 seats in AP as part NM's plan to become PM of India.

RamaY garu, search any Telugu news and non-news sites, everyone is writing a TDP revival. Jagan wave is faltering and it is definite downslide. Congress is becoming nowhere. If the predictions become true and congress loses AP and Maha then it will be curtains for the dynasty.

[disha]

This is not a violation of free speech. No one would have said anything if he NM hired the same hall the next day and gave a speech. Students invited NM without running it past profs/management. BTW some of the previous speakers have openly called for communal war in India yet were allowed to speak. Students are not blame less and as management trainees should have known how to handle this better. You can not expect there to be zero opposition to Modi, on his present path he is too polarizing. You can see what happened at Wharton.

BTW the student network bodies in USA are quite incompetent and hubs of radicalized politics. You can not expect NRI's to back them unreservedly.

That said there would have been no harm in letting NM speak.

Again theo, you speak without facts, without understanding and with extreme bias. Is it malice?

First your point above which is underlined - "that students network bodies in USA are quite incompetent and hubs of radicalized politics.", should be discussed. How do you prove that? Particularly my work with schools, both in suburb and in inner city schools (where guns do go off every few hours right near school campus if not on school campus) have led me to think otherwise. That student bodies are quite competent - and we are talking about elementary schools - the garden variety 6th graders.

One school had a budget and a special appointed manager whose salary ran in 6 figures (in USD). And even though that is a elite school, it was not the "elitest" - some have budgets in multi-million dollars with dedicated finance managers as well - and we are talking of elementary school bodies! Exposure from running the student bodies here at elementary school level carries forward to middle/high/college and then to elite schools like Wharton. So a sweeping statement that student bodies in general in US are incompetent does not stand. That is a bias you are carrying over.

Wharton is a very elite school, its graduates manage and will be managing billions if not trillions of dollars of global economy. So stating that they are incompetent with a general bias that every other student body is incompetent is ignorance at best.

Second when students invite key note speakers - note here that they had invited Shashi Tharoor in past and they invited NM now, a CM (equated with Ronald Reagan in WSJ) of a state that is more diverse than US/Europe and one-fifth of US population (like California and Texas put together). Inviting one and gaining acceptance from a CM to come is no mean feat for such a student body. In this case will they would not have run it with their "professors"? It is not a decision that is taken by pulling a rabbit out of hat. It is a well thought, well parsed decision.

This is an event sponsored by several "big wigs" like the GOI, Adani's and others (at several levels like platinum, gold, silver, bronze etc). Try to wrangle a sponsor for your event. Try to wrangle it from all of the above! And then continue to do it year over year. This are big bucks we are talking about.

The fact is that they got pressure from somewhere else (read GOI) and they dropped NM based on a flimsy excuse (who knows that they themselves might have asked the painted and dented professors to do their rhona-dhona and use that as a pretext to drop NM to save their sorry ar-s-e, particularly after a successful SRCC speech by NM - a speech again dissected in WSJ and then blame it on NM - saying that he is too polarizing a a figure?).

And they were not prepared for the backlash. Currently Wharton has lost face, particularly their business graduates will face the question on taking tough decisions and staying with it - you see business is never run on consensus. So if its graduates cannot take a tough decision and then trust them not to vacillitate when a tough situation arises, how can you give the reins of multi-billion dollar enterprises in their hands?

Now two more lies we have to address in your post. First is simple, why do not you go and hire the "hall" to give a speech. Trust me if you do that, I will come and hear you. The point is you will not get it. The "hall" is not mean to be "rented". Period. So even if NM wanted to speak there, he could not and he was shut out for good on flimsy basis - hitting at the very bedrock on which UPenn stands on.

Second, NM is a polarizing figure? Can you elaborate - what is so polarizing about him? That he speaks the truth with clarity? That he does not pander to religion and class (caste is even smaller)? That he is decisive? If he is polarizing can you please tell me why Ombaba is not? 48% of US citizens rejected Ombaba. Isn't that a sharp polarization? And remember NM has shown that he has won 2/8 'ths equivalent US population 3 times.

So the argument that he is polarizing is taken from the same place where loombas of the world hold their thoughts (and then eject and on occassions with some pressure). So please do not carry such "thoughts".

Having said that, what is your bias and what is your malice? That it rocks your gentle world of supremacy? That the heathens and the pagans (the infidels) are capable of producing such a decisive leader?

And that is the point for so much resistance against NM from every other quarters. Their closeted worlds are under siege and about to collapse. That is generating so much angst. And some malice.

Edited: Added - NRIs better make connection with this student bodies. They will learn a lot on how democracy is managed and may get better ideas for their own upliftment.

[chetak]

This is not a violation of free speech. No one would have said anything if he NM hired the same hall the next day and gave a speech. Students invited NM without running it past profs/management. BTW some of the previous speakers have openly called for communal war in India yet were allowed to speak. Students are not blame less and as management trainees should have known how to handle this better. You can not expect there to be zero opposition to Modi, on his present path he is too polarizing. You can see what happened at Wharton.

BTW the student network bodies in USA are quite incompetent and hubs of radicalized politics. You can not expect NRI's to back them unreservedly.

That said there would have been no harm in letting NM speak.

Again theo, you speak without facts, without understanding and with extreme bias. Is it malice?

First your point above which is underlined - "that students network bodies in USA are quite incompetent and hubs of radicalized politics.", should be discussed. How do you prove that? Particularly my work with schools, both in suburb and in inner city schools (where guns do go off every few hours right near school campus if not on school campus) have led me to think otherwise. That student bodies are quite competent - and we are talking about elementary schools - the garden variety 6th graders.

One school had a budget and a special appointed manager whose salary ran in 6 figures (in USD). And even though that is a elite school, it was not the "elitest" - some have budgets in multi-million dollars with dedicated finance managers as well - and we are talking of elementary school bodies! Exposure from running the student bodies here at elementary school level carries forward to middle/high/college and then to elite schools like Wharton. So a sweeping statement that student bodies in general in US are incompetent does not stand. That is a bias you are carrying over.

Wharton is a very elite school, its graduates manage and will be managing billions if not trillions of dollars of global economy. So stating that they are incompetent with a general bias that every other student body is incompetent is ignorance at best.

Second when students invite key note speakers - note here that they had invited Shashi Tharoor in past and they invited NM now, a CM (equated with Ronald Reagan in WSJ) of a state that is more diverse than US/Europe and one-fifth of US population (like California and Texas put together). Inviting one and gaining acceptance from a CM to come is no mean feat for such a student body. In this case will they would not have run it with their "professors"? It is not a decision that is taken by pulling a rabbit out of hat. It is a well thought, well parsed decision.

This is an event sponsored by several "big wigs" like the GOI, Adani's and others (at several levels like platinum, gold, silver, bronze etc). Try to wrangle a sponsor for your event. Try to wrangle it from all of the above! And then continue to do it year over year. This are big bucks we are talking about.

The fact is that they got pressure from somewhere else (read GOI) and they dropped NM based on a flimsy excuse (who knows that they themselves might have asked the painted and dented professors to do their rhona-dhona and use that as a pretext to drop NM to save their sorry ar-s-e, particularly after a successful SRCC speech by NM - a speech again dissected in WSJ and then blame it on NM - saying that he is too polarizing a a figure?).

And they were not prepared for the backlash. Currently Wharton has lost face, particularly their business graduates will face the question on taking tough decisions and staying with it - you see business is never run on consensus. So if its graduates cannot take a tough decision and then trust them not to vacillitate when a tough situation arises, how can you give the reins of multi-billion dollar enterprises in their hands?

Now two more lies we have to address in your post. First is simple, why do not you go and hire the "hall" to give a speech. Trust me if you do that, I will come and hear you. The point is you will not get it. The "hall" is not mean to be "rented". Period. So even if NM wanted to speak there, he could not and he was shut out for good on flimsy basis - hitting at the very bedrock on which UPenn stands on.

Second, NM is a polarizing figure? Can you elaborate - what is so polarizing about him? That he speaks the truth with clarity? That he does not pander to religion and class (caste is even smaller)? That he is decisive? If he is polarizing can you please tell me why Ombaba is not? 48% of US citizens rejected Ombaba. Isn't that a sharp polarization? And remember NM has shown that he has won 2/8 'ths equivalent US population 3 times.

So the argument that he is polarizing is taken from the same place where loombas of the world hold their thoughts (and then eject and on occassions with some pressure). So please do not carry such "thoughts".

Having said that, what is your bias and what is your malice? That it rocks your gentle world of supremacy? That the heathens and the pagans (the infidels) are capable of producing such a decisive leader?

And that is the point for so much resistance against NM from every other quarters. Their closeted worlds are under siege and about to collapse. That is generating so much angst. And some malice.

Edited: Added - NRIs better make connection with this student bodies. They will learn a lot on how democracy is managed and may get better ideas for their own upliftment.

Anyone who is not a colonial coolie and refuses to take forward the agenda as propagated by patriots like those of the thaparite school who whitewashed and glossed over centuries of wilful atrocities and genocides committed by EJs of the abrahamic variety is as per some people labelled as "a polarizing figure"

Bias and malice do not enter into it. They are as intrinsic to the argument as "freedom of expression" for these people. The basic question of what is a minority in a democracy will always remain unanswered. That is why the faker SP udayakumar is always right and the whole country is always wrong.

[Vayutuvan]

One of the comments from DP opinion piece - posting without comment

)ontrarian Just Curious Again • 4 days ago
The four Indian student co-chairs of WIEF on student visa thought it prudent to not lock horns with the entrenched Professors is how I read it, it was a tough choice between a career and a stand.

I think it is a simple case of the "leftist Elite" (a mother of all ox-e-morons) pressuring the despised bhumi putras (the middle class).

[Chandragupta]

You can not expect there to be zero opposition to Modi, on his present path he is too polarizing.

Why is this fellow allowed to indulge in non-ending (hutiy@pa?

Theo saar, enough of shadow boxing, show some balls & come out of the closet.

[disha]

Anyone who is not a colonial coolie and refuses to take forward the agenda as propagated by patriots like those of the thaparite school who whitewashed and glossed over centuries of wilful atrocities and genocides committed by EJs of the abrahamic variety is as per some people labelled as "a polarizing figure"

Bias and malice do not enter into it. They are as intrinsic to the argument as "freedom of expression" for these people. The basic question of what is a minority in a democracy will always remain unanswered. That is why the faker SP udayakumar is always right and the whole country is always wrong.

Of course Chetak, they are colonial "coolies" even now, carrying the burden on their non-existent colonial masters in the hope that they will return some day. But we cannot call them that, heck we cannot call them even "colonial night-soil careers" since calling them coolies or night-soil career will be bringing dishonour to an otherwise honourable (but regressive) work.

And to appeal to their sense of superiority, point the mirror to their own bias and malice and hope that before all is lost, they will got over their cognitive dissonance.

^^ with such mouthful of words, can I join a pseudo-left journalism course?

[chetak]

Anyone who is not a colonial coolie and refuses to take forward the agenda as propagated by patriots like those of the thaparite school who whitewashed and glossed over centuries of wilful atrocities and genocides committed by EJs of the abrahamic variety is as per some people labelled as "a polarizing figure"

Bias and malice do not enter into it. They are as intrinsic to the argument as "freedom of expression" for these people. The basic question of what is a minority in a democracy will always remain unanswered. That is why the faker SP udayakumar is always right and the whole country is always wrong.

Of course Chetak, they are colonial "coolies" even now, carrying the burden on their non-existent colonial masters in the hope that they will return some day. But we cannot call them that, heck we cannot call them even "colonial night-soil careers" since calling them coolies or night-soil career will be bringing dishonour to an otherwise honourable (but regressive) work.

And to appeal to their sense of superiority, point the mirror to their own bias and malice and hope that before all is lost, they will got over their cognitive dissonance.

^^ with such mouthful of words, can I join a pseudo-left journalism course?

The colonial masters have already ascended the gaddi and have been in position for a long time now.

Whether it is someone praising the british and thanking them for their rule in India or someone trying to rally the troops with the shrill cry of maut ka saudagar or even some robed and cassocked ex nazi who claims the irrefutable god given right harvest souls in India, or even many bearded baboons who want to implement sharia right now, unmindful of the fact that a vast majority wants nothing to do with all their collective crackpot ideas, the masters are already here and have a far greater say in the affairs of the state than their representative weight would normally permit them to.

This is a situation that exists in no other state in the whole wide world. This is also the main reason why we have never had a coherent India centric and India first foreign policy since independence. We have been forced to pander to abrahamic EJ interests and sacrifice our own, all in the name of democracy.

Now, when Modi says India First, it sets the cat among the pigeons because it might awaken the sleeping majority.

[Singha]

south american countries also have the same issue. very westernized elites, native pops very marginal, poor peasants, no respect given local cultures.

[muraliravi]

Guys,

Please stop this crap. There is a prick who has no other job than hijacking this forum and you guys are naive enough to respond. Just ignore him, is it your god given responsibility to educate morons. If so, go elsewhere to do that.

[Hari Seldon]

^^ Exactly. yawn and move on. only.

BTW, twitter is abuzz (ain't it always?) with spicy anticipation of the next NaMo namaha speech from as grand a pulpit as any in India's non-government sector.... the India today conclave speech, due to start in a few minutes... sure, there will be youtube vids made, each comment and phrase dissected, speculations rife... etc

Looking fwd to another shot of hope and optimism to come forth...

[Muppalla]

Folks, in few seconds NaMo is going to give keynote address in India Today conclave. It is live on AajTak. One can also watch from his site.

[Muppalla]

I don't feel like we are watching news and news programs. The hype around NaMo is unlimited. They are showing all the way from receiving him, taking a special photo. Trying to get all the money via ads just on NaMo's speech. Pumping up TRP ratings.

[Muppalla]

^^ Exactly. yawn and move on. only.

BTW, twitter is abuzz (ain't it always?) with spicy anticipation of the next NaMo namaha speech from as grand a pulpit as any in India's non-government sector.... the India today conclave speech, due to start in a few minutes... sure, there will be youtube vids made, each comment and phrase dissected, speculations rife... etc

Looking fwd to another shot of hope and optimism to come forth...

Those who rarely Tweet also come out to make sure their tweet is there on the occasion. The new buzz is "PM in waiting...". NaMo Namaha

[Vipin_Upadhyay]

Live speech now, started with awesome video presentation.

Youtube live viewers crossed 2400 for the first time on IndiaToday channel.

[Supratik]

Awesome AV. This guy is the Lee Kuan of India.

[rajkumar]

Live speech now, started with awesome video presentation.

Youtube live viewers crossed 2400 for the first time on IndiaToday channel.

Any links...

[Kamal_raj]

Any links please

[Muppalla]

http://www.narendramodi.in/liveevent/16 ... index.html

Watch from here

[SwamyG]

He is facking awesome.....seriously moi very kush onlee. I keep telling you he will be remembered for his vision and inspiration. The foreigners in the audience are happy and laughing too....

[rajithn]

Om NaMo Namayah:

[SwamyG]

Solar panels over canals is novel, wouldn't water cause some corrosion/rust problems?

[Hari Seldon]

Awesome or what.... this one too will be remembered and much discussed, re-tweeted, analyzed and copied...

Just look at topics he spoke - Solid Waste Mgmt, fertilizers, subsidy, Agriculture, Canals,Governance now railways.

Modi is one by one faulting all central schemes.

[Vipin_Upadhyay]

SwamyG it could cause corrosion...but saving land is important in a country with billion+ population

[rajithn]

Solar panels over canals is novel, wouldn't water cause some corrosion/rust problems?

He has already done it. Its not just a proposal. Humidity in the air could but anti corrosion science today will take care of it.

[Muppalla]

The last statement is great. I gave good advises and PM is happy. But there needs a real good person in that state.

[Supratik]

OK, this is the first speech of NM I saw/heard in entirety. He is one of the most intelligent and articulate politician in India, ever.

[SwamyG]

The audience is not bored at all, just like us. Man he pushes all the right buttons for me. Vision, ideas, mindset, pride, positive attitude, ityadi.......

Note bi milla vote bi milla.........

[Vashishtha]

Amazing speech as usual...

[SwamyG]

Beautiful answer, exact answer about party organization and intra party election to choose its leader.

I know the solar panels over canals is not a proposal....I was wondering about the long term affects.

[member_20317]

Solar panels over canals is novel, wouldn't water cause some corrosion/rust problems?

He has already done it. Its not just a proposal. Humidity in the air could but anti corrosion science today will take care of it.

When I was new to BRF and collaborating with Theo ji on Solar ideas, I had once mentioned how the whole of Indian ocean is available for basically muphat. If only some of you engineers could figure out something. See had you guys accepted my suggestion you could have been a hopeful yourself for just such an abhinandan.

Apparently Namo did one better he jacked up the RE around his solar plants too.

[RoyG]

Excellent answer to secularism question. Everybody needs protection. Not just minorities.

[rajithn]

He has already done it. Its not just a proposal. Humidity in the air could but anti corrosion

Apparently Namo did one better he jacked up the RE around his solar plants too.

The problem with oceans is the high salinity content in the air. But with fresh water canals, not so much.

P.S: What i like about the man's articulation is the way he goes on to explain sustainability in his solutions: solar panels providing energy, thus saving land, thus saving water evaporation, thus providing cold water that generates more energy! I salute him.