Captive Wind Power for Transfer of Water across the Western Ghats, India

Conversion of the kinetic energy of blowing wind into electric energy, employing wind turbines of modern design that use electronic controls for the production of steady AC power, is now well-established for utilizing a free, ecofriendly resource. Much information regarding the methods is available on the Internet. The possibility of employing captive wind power-generating systems for pumping freshwater from the western side of the Western Ghats, India, currently largely wasted into the Arabian Sea, in order to increase the water availability on the eastern side, needs to be seriously considered.