India's population is ~1.2 billion, slightly behind China. This is both a
curse and perhaps a small blessing - if they can take advantage of the
opportunity now presenting itself.
The blessing: They have more 'honors students' than we have students. And
ten times more in math and engineering. There is a lot of potential
brain-power, mixed with overwhelming poverty, resulting in an extreme level
of motivation for an energy breakthrough - and LENR is the ideal technology
for that country. 
With an energy breakthrough in India, wealth will follow. In the 21st
century: wealth = energy. Does anyone doubt that?
Side note: if you are old enough, you probably remember the preppy clothing
style popular in Colleges in the 1960s - influenced by the bright plaid
light cotton known as "Madras".  That was the former name of the city now
called Chennai. 
I kinda thought that I missed that style, in a way, until I had a look at
google images. Now it looks pretty silly, but that is a side effect of 50
years of maturing taste.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1333&bih=721&q=madras
+pants+for+men&gbv=2&aq=1&aqi=g2g-m1&aql=&oq=madras+pants

>From the Deccan Times
Chennai, Feb. 6: It may be still in the realm of science fiction for many
but a nanotechnology expert has claimed that green, clean, safe and cheap
energy can be produced using a low energy nuclear reactor in room
temperature.
"One does not need materials like uranium, plutonium or thorium or for that
matter any kind of reactors," said Prof David Nagel, research professor,
micro and nano technologies, George Washington University, USA. "There will
not be any radiation or radioactive waste in this mode of power generation."
Prof Nagel was addressing students and faculty attending the tutorial school
on "Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" in IIT Madras on Saturday.
According to him, two Italian scientists, Prof Sergio Focardi and Andrea
Rossi, had demonstrated a 10 KW LENR reactor at Bologna on January 14.
"But the International Patent Office rejected their application for patent
because the authorities were not convinced about the feasibility of the
LENR," he said. "Scientists who have made breakthroughs in LENR are
reluctant to come out in the open because of the fear that they may be
deprived of their intellectual property rights."

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