Thread: Does anyone else spot the irony of this

Does anyone else spot the irony of this Report post
Indian power company orders high-horsepower electric locomotives.
INDIA: Power generation company NTPC Ltd has ordered six electric locomotives from Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd for materials handling operations at the Lara Super Thermal Power Station in the Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh.

Opened in 2019-20, the 1·6 GW power plant uses coal delivered by rail from the Mand Raigarh coalfield which is served a dedicated railway built for the Chhattisgarh East Railway special purpose vehicle by Ircon International.

Announcing the contract on April 25, BHEL said it was the first time that 6 000 hp electric locomotives had been ordered in India for an industrial user. ‘As the world continues to explore new ways of limiting carbon emissions in the transportation sector, BHEL’s efforts in offering eco-friendly electric locomotives for industry will provide a relatively cleaner and alternative option to diesel-electric locomotives’, it explained.

The locos are to be assembled at BHEL’s Jhansi facility, with an IGBT-based traction package developed by the company’s Bengaluru facility and traction motors from its Bhopal plant.

BHEL has previously supplied more than 450 electric locomotives of various power ratings to Indian Railways. It supplied its first 6 000 hp WAG-9H to the national operator in September 2018. The Jhansi plant has capacity to build around 100 locos per year.
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So "greener" locomotives to deliver all of that coal to a power station. Probably used to make stuff for export that we end up buying while we get hammered on vehicle emissions over here. I don't think our crowd here see the big picture. There is a big push on electric cars, retrofitting insulation in older houses to use less fuel and a proposed ban on smoky coal and locally sourced peat for fuel. All well and good but we continue to import stuff from India, China and other countries with massive fossil fueled power stations. It seems a little two faced to me. It is hammering your own crowd to be so called "greener" while out sourcing production of the materials to other countries. I am sure a couple of big Indian or Chinese fossil fueled power stations pump out more Co2 than all of the cars in Ireland yet we are getting hammered to go "greener" and go electric or hybrid or battery powered cars. Not a word on the emissions produced while making these so called "greener" cars or how long the life span of the batteries are and what happens the batteries at end of life cycle. Also the conditions people work in to get the materials for these batteries,
Rant over, I'm going out in the series 111 2.25 diesel.

My old HMAS Adelaide was powered by a air craft engine which made the power in electricity . The New one is "two Siemens Navantia 11-megawatt azimuth thrusters, each with an onboard electric motor driving 4.5 metre thrust propellors."
that is very old sailor tech You might be holding on to the black stuff a bit tightly