While the news is full this week of India placing a $330 billion estimate on its needs for renewable energy to 2030, the big problem for India is getting there. It has special problems because it has such a cheap labor force. That labor force allows it to get coal out of the ground at an astonishingly cheap rate, and that certainly allows the coal plants it already operates to remain economic for their remaining lifetimes. The big frustration with the country is that it continues to build out coal plants, partially because it understands about the cheapness of its labor, and partly because it does not quite appreciate that it is in the front line of climate change. That…