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 …
How do vampires suck blood? Well, the mythical nocturnal terrors may be using a protein that makes blood sucking easy. Chemists have uncovered the structure of a protein in the saliva of bloodsucking insects that helps them extract a bigger meal from their victims. The protein
Deep sea vents, where hot mineral-rich water erupts from the ocean floor, have long been considered as sites where life originated. Now Japanese scientists have built an artificial deep-sea vent to create building blocks for life. A team led by Koichiro Matsuno at the University of Technology in Nagaoka, Japan, …
The use of wind energy is set to reach "an historic milestone" this month, according to the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based energy arm of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It predicts that worldwide wind energy capacity is about to reach 10,000MW, which is enough to supply the …
Exxon, the US energy company, said it was to withdraw from talks with Vietnam on oil exploration off the country's southern coast, in another significant blow to Hanoi's offshore hydrocarbon development plans. Exxon is the latest in a long line of foreign oil companies to pull out of offshore exploration …
Bacteria could become the latest weapon in the oil industry's efforts to retrieve and purify heavy grades of crude oil. US researchers have discovered that bacterial biocatalysts can remove impurities such as sulphur, nitrogen and metals from crude oil. The technique which was invented at the US Department of Energy's …
The State government as well as the ASEB are faced with huge losses of their revenues in the industrial belt of Umrangsho in North Cachar Hills district as several cement manufacturing units located in the area have closed down after a 7.5 MW transformer of the Kapili Hydel Project went …
Mizoram, a small Indian hill state, wants to buy gas from Bangladesh to protect forest resources, its Chief Minister Zoramthanga said in Dhaka. "We need gas very badly," Zoramthanga said while exchanging views with Bangladesh business community leaders.
The United States multi-national Enron Power Corporation would dedicate its $1-billion Dabhol Phase-I power project set up in Maharashtra to the nation only after the monsoons, a top company official said here on Wednesday.
In a rare victory for environmentalists, a Connecticut judge issued an order barring the restarting of the Millstone 2 nuclear reactor on Long Island Sound, just one day before the generator was to produce commercial power for the first time in three years. Robert W. Bishop, the general counsel of …
Dilly-dallying over the location of oil import facilities for the 6-million tonne Bina Refinery project, has caused a cost escalation of Rs 2,000 crore. The project cost of Bharat Oman Refinery Ltd (BORL), a joint venture between Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and the Oman Oil Company (OOC), has increased …
Contrary to recent reports in a section of the Pakistani media, Pakistan's power authority is still keen to sell electricity to India. In fact, the authority is now talking of bringing down the rates quoted by it earlier by as much as 40 per cent.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) has discovered oil in two wells situated in the eastern and western parts of Kesanapalli area in East Godavari district this month.
Plans by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to build one more research reactor in Trombay are expected to increase India's production capacity of unsafeguarded plutonium.
Asia's first nuclear power plant at Tarapur in Maharashtra may serve longer than its expected life, thanks to ageing management concepts evolved by the plant operators as well as the good condition of its component materials.Commissioned in 1969, the boiling water reactor(BWR), vessel of Tarapur atomic power station(TAPS) has an …
Leading power majors including Hyundai, L&T; , Reliance Power, BSES-BHEL combine, Bechtel, PSEG, GVK Power, CEPA and Tata Electric Companies have been shortlised for the Rs 2500 crore, 500 mw Yamunanagar power project in Haryana.
Even as moralists and activists continue to debate homosexuality, many species casually practice it. What humans share with so many other animals, it now appears, is freewheeling homosexuality. Nature's morality it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St.Martin's Press) by linguist and cognitive …
Kathmandu's perennial drinking water shortage has erupted as a major crisis this year, the driest in recent times with only one-third of the current demand of 180 million liter per day being met. According to G B Amatya, the manager at the Nepal Water Supply Corporation (NWSC), the corporation is …
While the Cogentrix power company, which has proposed to set up a 1,000 MW power project at Nandikoor near Mangalore, has stepped up its attempts to woo the local people through its "welfare" measures, it has been severely criticised by local activists who argue that such measures do not answer …
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar has threatened to sit on an indefinite hunger strike at the Sardar Sarovar Project site in Kevadia Colony before the monsoons begins.
Mitsubishi Motors corp. may be having its troubles on the bottom line, but it again has demonstrated engineering prowess second to none in the industry. The Tokyo-based automaker has developed a gasoline engine that sharply reduces harmful exhaust emissions and boasts improved fuel efficiency.
