The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today initiated a path-breaking move in the area of solar energy, approving a proposal to establish a 140 MW integrated solar-naphtha combined cycle power project at Mathania village near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
Japan raised its estimate of how many people were exposed to radiation in the country's worst nuclear accident to 439 from 70, officials said on Tuesday.
Save for better future : China can guarantee its energy security and achieve sustainable development during the 21st century by conserving energy and using clean coal technologies. If current energy consumption and production trends continue, China is expected to consume 6 billion tons of coal-equivalents by 2050, almost sixtimes of …
A professor and a team from the Shanghai Transgenic Centre have made a major breakthrough in therapeutic cloning. Professor Cheng Guoxiang and his team have developed an embryo in its early stages by transferring the nuclei of adult somatic cells into human eggs-- the precursor to fetuses. Two other professors …
Japan raised its estimate of how many people were exposed to radiation in the country's worst nuclear accident to 439 from 70, officials said yesterday. September's accident, which killed one person, was triggered when workers put almost eight times the proper amount of condensed uranium into a mixing tank at …
The Andhra Pradesh government has prepared an action plan to make Andhra Pradesh a power surplus state in four years time. The state Energy Minister K Subharayudu told a news conference after a review meeting with the senior officials on Tuesday that the plan of action has ben prepared taking …
While there much euphoria regarding the projection of CNG as a clean auto fuel, experts are already sounding the alarm with reference to an additional problem that mass conversion of existing fleet of buses into CNG will bring to the Capital - the phenomenon called local warming.
In an ongoing effort to sensitise the youth of the city towards making Delhi "Clean and Green", the Department of Environment has launched a sustained campaign. To ensure the success of the programme, Eco Clubs have been established in 500 schools of the city to create awareness among the students.
The 'fast-track' 1040 MW Hinduja-National Power Corporation Ltd's recent proposal for increase of capital cost is likely to swing either way and the State Government, which is considering the proposal afresh, may even 'rethink' on the project.
PAEC : Co-operation between China and Pakistan in the peaceful use of nuclear energy is a symbol of their time-tested friendship and establishment of Chashma nuclear power plant would help Pakistan cater to its energy needs. This was stated by Chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Dr Ishfaq in …
President Clinton will propose increased funding in his new budget to clean up two Energy Department uranium processing sites in Kentucky and Ohio, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced. Investment at the Paducah gaseous diffusion plant in Kentucky would more than double to $109.2 million, while funding at the Portsmouth gaseous …
Scientists: Interstellar chemical clouds may have seeded the earth with building blocks of life, according to a new computerised model that suggests that biologically important molecules may have come from the space.The model, developed by Sandip Chakraborty at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences and his wife Sonali …
With the goal of cleaner energy, China has approved two multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas projects, the China Daily Business Weekly reported Sunday.
The country's first energy education park-aimed at creating awareness about renewable energy-was built by the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA), by converting a dumping ground of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC).
More evidence is surfacing to show Delhi, too, was the home of the Stone Age Man. A resident of Alaknanda in south Delhi has discovered scores of pre historic stone tools, dubbed a "major find" by some experts. The resident, H V Maheshwari, collected the crude stone tools during his …
China had approved two huge multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in a bid to turn the country towards cleaner energy, state media reported.
The forest at Chakaria in Cox Bazar district has been denuded. According to a report in The Bangladesh Observer influential people have undertaken construction on these lands thus destroying the valuable resources. The ministry of forests had leased out these forests in 1972, ingnoring the importance of ecological balance of …
India and the US have signed an agreement for USAID assistance of $25 millions for implementing a project relating to energy conservation and commercialisation. The assistance is meant for widespread commercialisation of energy efficient technologies and services in the country's power sector and would be available for five years.
Venu Srinivasan, president of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, SIAM admits that the industry has been soft peddling their role in air pollution. "Now no automobile manufacturer will dare sidestep the pollution issue," he says conceding the public opinion built up against the automobile industry. According to SIAM, two-stroke …
bane of cloning: Discussing the medical, social and legal aspects of cloning at the ongoing APICON-2000- the 55th joint annual conference of Association of Physicians of India(API) -here, Dr. S.S. Agarwal, Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics, SGPGI Medical Sciences, Lucknow, said the creation of a sheep-Dolly - by …
