Krishna Iyer's Inanities

Today's article by V.R.Krishna Iyer is hilarious. The gist of his article is that sunlight is being wasted if it is not being harnessed to meet our energy requirements. Every kid knows that as well. It is like saying that if we have a drinking water shortage, it can be rectified by finding a way to utilize water from the oceans. And strong winds often blow across the beaches of Kerala; should we not be running windmills everywhere to harness that? It surely does not take a genius to know any of that. But how to do that is the million dollar question which we expect folks with special knowledge of the subject to enlighten us in a serious paper like THe Hindu. Is there any sign, however faint, of some enlightenment in this article? I could not find it even by going over it with a lens, just a lot of vacuous rhetoric. Mr. Iyer might know something of politics and the law but he is definitely no energy expert and certainly does not come across as someone who has even made a feeble attempt to learn about the details of energy questions of the day. There is an old saying that empty vessels make a lot of noise. Mr. Iyer appears to have become a living embodiment of this dictum. He could do a lot better for himself and his own image by realizing the virtues of silence.