Parag Jyoti Saikia
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Parag Jyoti Saikia
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PhD Candidate @UNC Anthropology. Interests: Dams, Rivers, India’s Northeast.
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^^ There is definitely an air of aggressive revisionism when it comes to wind and solar: the massive government interventions that caused increases in deployment get glossed over - and success gets attributed to "learning curves" and other techno-magic

eg: Max Roser, from Our World in Data:
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
In most places power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.
ourworldindata.org
January 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Sisseri River from Sisseri river bridge, Arunachal Pradesh.
September 25, 2023 at 5:41 AM
Dibang river flowing down from the hills to the plains to join Siang and Lohit river and form the Brahmaputra.
September 25, 2023 at 5:40 AM
The mighty Siang, one of three major tributaries that form the Brahmaputra, near Pasighat Arunachal Pradesh.
September 25, 2023 at 5:40 AM
1. Crossing the Brahmaputra on a Bhotbhoti (a country made large boat with engines)
2. Crossing the Brahmaputra in a steamer in monsoon 2023.
September 25, 2023 at 5:39 AM
The pole of a fishing net that had been spread across a channel of the Subansiri river.
September 25, 2023 at 5:37 AM