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Chemical engineer to navigate 17,000 km on vegetable oil
Bengaluru, March 14: A chemical engineer from the city is on a mission to promote the use of green energy. Avinash Narayanaswamy, chemical engineer and postgraduate in sustainable energy technology from the University of Twente in Netherlands, will drive 17,000 km from London to Mongolia in a vehicle run entirely on bio-fuel derived out of waste vegetable oil.
- Date:
- 15/03/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Govt plans bio-fuel plants in 1 lakh hectare land by 2010
'A quantum of 135 million litre ethanol is being produced from six sugar factories of the State annually. This is being used with petrol as a fuel. There is a target of increasing the use of ethenal to 10 per cent in the State by the end of next year,' said State Bio-fuel Task Force President Y B Ramakrishna.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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- Reports and Documents
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales
Aerosols: Integrating an understanding of source-receptor relationships with climate forcing on regional scales a paper presented by Chandra Venkataraman at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Indian Institute of Technology
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Pawar fails, ethanol rates for 6 mths only
A GOVERNMENT plan to buy ethanol for blending with petrol at a price of Rs 27 per litre may be limited to six months, although agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has asked the price to be frozen for the next three years in line with the demand by sugar mills.
- Date:
- 25/02/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Is spiked petrol a good idea?
Any policy on blending ethanol with petrol has to keep in mind the costs involved in ethanol production - excessive use of scarce water to grow sugarcane and the effluents discharged in the process.
Rakesh BhartiaRakesh Bhartia
CEO, India Glycols
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
- Source:
- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Green technology: MIT wants to join hands with India
Applauding the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission 2022 initiative launched by India to unleash 20,000 MW of power during the next decade, US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expressed its strong desire to be associated with the Indian Government, industry and academia to research and develop clean energy green technology in the post-Copenhagen scenario.
- Date:
- 22/02/2010
- Source:
- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Time to quit doping
Committing scarce resources like water, land is a bad idea
- Date:
- 19/02/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Commercial jets set to fly on fuel from garbage
London: British Airways is planning to establish Europe’s first green jet fuel plant that would turn rubbish into carbon-neutral aviation fuel by the year 2014.
According to the Independent, British Airways would establish the plant, in collaboration with the US bioenergy company Solena.
- Date:
- 17/02/2010
- Source:
- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Govt identifying wasteland to cultivate diesel-rich plants
In line with the National Biofuel Policy approved by the Centre last December, the Delhi government is identifying wastelands and forestland at present on the city’s outskirts for cultivation of biofuel.
Officials in the Environment department said the government will initially plant jathropa and pongamia plants in the identified wastelands.
- Date:
- 17/02/2010
- Source:
- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist pp: 1-4
