How are you?
Hi Dave.
Pleasure to meet you, welcome to India.
I see the solar panels.
This looks hopeful.
This is going to power about 500 lights
all around the station.
The entire metro railway
is going to now
build out
about a hundred times these systems.
The technology, at one point
was exotic.
It's no longer exotic,
but we need to spread the message even more.
Yeah.
We've got 300 days of sunshine every year.
So what you see here
is the transition towards using
that resource that's available for free.
Right.
Now, I've heard the criticism about,
irrespective of the sunshine
we don't have the batteries
to store the power.
Every electron that's produced,
you've got to either use it or you lose it.
Yeah.
If we use solar power
when the sun is shining,
then we can switch to using
coal or gas power at night.
Yes.
Rather than the other way around.
Everyone wants power.
So the guy who has no lights
wants the first light bulb.
I, who's got a dozen lights in my house,
needs to make sure that
they're always powered on.
You have a dozen lights actually?
I have more.
You have more lights.
You may be part of the problem.
Ok, here's our train.
This is it.
And they were never seen again.
We're going to be the world's largest country
in terms of population.
More than 1.5 billion people.
1.5 billion?
Yeah, a 1.5 billion.
Well the good news is, it's only a billion and a half.
That's the good news.
The largest country in the world
in terms of population
and the second or third largest economy in the world.
Before I came to India,
I had kind of a pessimistic outlook.
I come here and I see this
and now I feel better.
Which is more realistic?
The 21st century will belong
to the country or the economy
that figures out how to have
a cleaner energy system
that also delivers growth.
Go ahead and say it.
India. It'll be India.
Go ahead, say it.
