Goals ( aff said that they only had to achieve one of the goals to merit an aff ballot)

1) Improve the economy

2) Improve the environment
Criterion
Net Benefits
Inherency
1) Electricity shortage in India
2) Inefficient power plants in India
Plan
Mandates
1) Retrofit Indias coal plants using fluid-bed supercritical coal combustion plants
2) Infrastructure build up
Agency/Enforcement- US Federal government
Funding- cut ethanol subsidies, generating $7 billion per year
Solvency
1. Department of energy pilot project was effective
Advantages
1) Improves both US and Indian economies ( they say US economy is benefited by an increase in trade.
Basically, if India has more power, then they will be able to produce more, and if they produce more
they will be able to trade more with the US. Kind of a bit of a slippery slope )
2) Pollution decreased by 87%