Aravindh C. @arvv
I'm a Tamil Indian dude. I tweet mostly about: Urbanism | nuclear energy | economic growth Bengaluru/Coimbatore Joined March 2009-
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The more rich people are clustered in dense areas, the better a city works for everyone including poorest residents and future migrants. The more the rich sprawl outward, the worse it gets. Height limits plus car-centric planning are among India’s most anti-poor urban policies.
Opposing taller buildings in Indian cities is a bizarre leftist position. It ends up punishing the poorest by making drainage, waste management, cables, electricity and public transit far costlier & worse, while forcing endless sprawl where cutting lakhs of trees becomes normal.
The Indian left has grasped the American left's worst Ludditism, the Indian right doesn't understand technology and hates the actual researchers, and the Indian center wouldn't know technology if it hit them in the face India desperately needs to center tech literacy in all wings
Opposing taller buildings in Indian cities is a bizarre leftist position. It ends up punishing the poorest by making drainage, waste management, cables, electricity and public transit far costlier & worse, while forcing endless sprawl where cutting lakhs of trees becomes normal.
Partly explained by this:
People in Tamil Nadu act as though they’ve been living under oppression, mistreated by the DMK government, held at metaphorical gunpoint, and desperately waiting for some saviour to rescue them from imagined horror and slavery.
The West is obsessed with Chernobyl, churning out award-winning series about a 1986 disaster that killed 54 people on impact. Yet they remain silent on Bhopal 1984, where an American-owned factory leaked gas, killing 3,500+ people instantly.
Raghu Rai’s portfolio of the 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster are among the most profound photojournalistic works of the last 50 years raghuraifoundation.org/bhopal/
A good thumb rule: any analysis/ commentary on rising temperatures in cities that attributes the cause singularly to climate change is highly likely to be wrong. Reason being the fact that built environments (concrete, asphalt and glass) absorb a lot of heat
Tamil Nadu faces one of the most crucial elections in its history. With population growth stabilising & the average age now 36+, the next 10 yrs will decide: will TN remain lower-middle-class or finally rise to upper-middle-class prosperity? Need eagle-eyed focus on economy 1/3
@VinamraOR @IndianUrbanist This shows change in demand, not absolute demand In reality India consumes nearly twice as much energy as Africa ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy…
More proof, why indian cities need to grow vertical, design according to the wind, prioritise shade both green and gray. Stop sprawling into the forests. Metropolises like Bangalore, will probably feel less cooler in the coming decades cause it's on a sprawling spree.
IIT Bombay research shows that heatwaves over the Indo-Gangetic Plains are primarily driven by local land and atmospheric factors, rather than by hot air travelling from elsewhere. New research led by Prof. Karthikeyan Lanka, Associate Professor, Centre of Studies in Resources
Chennai & other cities in TN will keep sleeping. An earthquake prone state is building taller. Shameful!! 😑🤷♂️
@arjunsiddarths @UpdatesChennai Resources PER PERSON is the metric you're looking for. And yes, skyscrapers definitely use fewer resources compared to suburban sprawl
Chennai folks should stop opposing skyscrapers Skyscrapers are good for the same reason buses, trains or nuclear plants are good. They serve more people but need less space & resources It’s far easier to build infrastructure like metros or sewage to support vertical clusters than horizontal sprawl. Which is easier: build metro to cover 200 km² or 1000 km² ? Services like garbage collection are also easier for vertical growth than urban sprawl When a school kid distribute chocolates to classmates for birthday, which is easier: visiting each of their homes? or giving when they’re all in the classroom? Our current FSI limits are akin to banning local trains or buses. Imagine how stupid & inefficient that would be! Already TN's tax money is redistributed up north; the little that remains shouldn't be wasted on maintaining suburban sprawl
@Sandhyapalli Yes, I agree. Infrastructure has to precede building skyscrapers. But for that you have to keep in mind the goal of eventually building tall in the first place, so you can plan for appropriately sized infra. That vision is not there.
@GlennLuk I like the palindromic abbreviations of some Chinese SOEs (CRRC, CNNC, etc). Very satisfying.
Coimbatore is such a cracked city It deserves 2x the infrastructure that it currently gets, with proper footpaths, bus lanes, FSI relaxation, and metros But in India, we don't believe in investing in successes, so all we get is mediocrity. Places like Coimbatore are ignored by both Central and State govts Heck, Cbe even has more GCCs than every other tier 2 city
Something I keep coming back to: The precision machining cluster in Coimbatore exports to Tier-1 automotive suppliers in Germany. The German buyer knows Coimbatore. The Indian policy conversation doesn't.
@HarksenNiels The social media/news presence of Indian nuclear is limited, besides the official accounts Maybe @Gaurav_Gullaiya can you help suggest? @saurabhtodi writes good articles
Anti-nuclear folks opposing PFBR is very ironic, considering that: 1. Fast Breeder reactors solve problem of nuclear waste. FBRs can use up the longest lived radioactive wastes produced from regular reactors. 2. FBRs also increase the energy that you get from uranium fuel by up to 80 - 100x, so it reduces the need to mine uranium Both are major wins for the environment. So why oppose? The real reason is different from the one stated. Once you oppose a solution, the "problem" can be used to oppose nuclear in perpetuity. This is why FBRs, permanent waste storage sites, etc always get special attention from anti-nuclear activists across the world.
கல்பாக்கத்தில் உள்ள 500 மெகாவாட் மின்னுற்பத்தித் திறன் கொண்ட மாதிரி வேக ஈனுலை(Prototype Fast Breeder reactor(PFBR), ஏப்ரல் 6ஆம் தேதி அன்று இரவு 08:25 மணிக்கு முதலாவது அணுப்பிளவு செயல்பாட்டு நிலையை (attaining first criticality (start of controlled fission chain
3/n PFBR helps reduce mining impact Producing 80-100x more energy from given uranium means you need to mine less uranium This makes nuclear even more resource-efficient than it already is:
2/n FBRs also have another cool feature: They solve the age-old issue of nuclear waste How? Using an FBR will remove the long lived fission products that are radioactive for 10,000s of years You no longer need to build expensive facilities to store nuclear waste for centuries
India's PFBR is an ENORMOUS achievement Why? Look at natural uranium: mostly U238 with less than 1% of U235. Most reactors can use only that 1% PFBR converts the U238 into Pu239, which can then be used to make energy. So, you can get up 50-100x more energy from uranium Cntd.🧵
Today is a historic day. India has entered 2nd stage of our three stage nuclear power program with the achievement of clriticality of PFBR. Congratulations to every contributor to this critical technology that makes India only the second country to operate a large fast reactor.
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