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 …
On Aug 27, a burst of electromagnetic energy smashed against the Earth's atmosphere, ripping apart air molecules, disrupting radio communcations and knocking a couple of satellites temporarily offline. The most likely source of the power surge, scientists announced last week: a starquake on a new kind of celestial object called …
The thermal power station in Farakka was shut down today after the National Thermal Power Corporation decided to stop the power supply to West Bengal and the Damodar Valley Corporation. A senior state Power Department official said, "Supply was cut off since noon today, resulting in the closure of the …
India appears to have climbed back into the good books of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which was upset with New Delhi after the May Pokhran blasts. An IAEA sponsored conference on "Nuclear power in developing counries" will begin in Mumbai tomorrow.
The UK government unveiled "radical reforms" of the energy market, including restrictions on new gas-fired power stations and cuts in wholesale electricity prices. The long-awaited Energy Review, published by Peter Mandelson, the chief trade and industry minister, seeks to balance demands for more competition in power generation and supply with …
Greenpeace called the opening of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) to oil exploration a move that will further global warming. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt released his Record of Decision making this decision final.
An old hydel power project revived by the Kerala Governemnt in Wayanad has triggered waves of protest in the tribal-dominated district. Apart from environmentalists and politicians, religious organisations are up in arms against the 225 mw Mananthawadi Multipurpose Project, as the area contains many religious institutions which would be submerged …
Work on the Kochi-Coimbatore-Karur petroleum product pipeline will be completed by November 2000, according to a promoter. Necessary major clearances, including those from state governments and environmental agencies, had been obtained and the land for the project was being acquired, Petronet India Ltd chief executive D Rajkumar told reporters on …
Following the identification of about 143-crore tonnes of lignite reserves in western Rajasthan, a unique underground gasification technique is being adopted for the first time for study and utilisation of deep seated lignite deposits for power generation and other functions. The Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) signed a Memorandum …
Experts participating in the National conference on Potential of Water Harvesting have recommended the setting up of a unified authority to promote water harvesting and protect the existing water harvesting structures, with adequate representation from society.At the concluding session of the three-day conference organised by the Centre for Science and …
Rare skeletal remains of a 160 million-year-old dinosaur belonging to the Sauropad group have been excavated recently at Kistapur in Adilbad district of Andhra Pradesh by a team of palaeontologists of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) . The fossil finds have reinforced the evolutionary theory that Sauropod dinosaurs belonging …
A couple crusading for conserving energy and environment has devised a massive solar cooker which can cater to 10,000 people at a time. Shirin and Deepak Gadhia have set up the giant cooker in the premises of Brahmakumaris World Academy - a spiritual and cultural institution in Mount Abu, Rajasthan. …
Coal will maintain its predominant position in the country's power generation sector, minister for environemnt Surech Prabhu said during a talk at Harvard University recently. Prabhu was outlining the measures taken to combat pollution generated by it.
The Maharashtra Govenemnt has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two major American energy multinationals, Enron corporation and Universal Electricals for the upgradation and modernisation of gas-based Uran and Nashik and Bhuvsal Karodi thermal power projects.
Scientists have uncovered the fossilised fragment of the world's smallest mammal, a tiny shrew-like creature no heavier than a dollar bill that somehow survived the planet-wide catastrophe that wiped out the dinosaurs.
At night police using spotter helicopters find it hard to tell cops from robbers on the ground. The simple answer, according to Richard Harvey of Newport in South Wales, UK, is for each officer on the ground to wear a small infrared transmitter on his or her head. Driven by …
Twelve billion light-years away, it was the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, the initial explosion that started it all, say astronomers. Astronomers S George Djorgovski and Srinivas R Kulkarni of the California Institute of Technology in California, USA, reported that the gammaray burst detected in December 14, 1997, …
FROM Einstein's equations of general relativity, Austrian physicists Joseph Lense and Hans Thirring derived in 1918 that an object that spins also twists the fabric of space-time around it. The Lense-Thirring effect is so small, however, that it has been hard to measure. An international team of Italian, Spanish and …
Sharp, the Japanese electronics giant, says that illusions created when head-mounted video displays are used to display films could be made to appear more natural. At present, the viewer sees an image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) suspended in space. But Sharp is currently working on a head-mounted viewing …
The frozen remains of Otzi the Neolithic hunter contain the best-preserved nervous tissue yet discovered in an ancient human, say German biologists. Climbers stumbled on the Tyrolean ice man in the Alps in 1991. Now Michael Hess and his colleagues of the University of Innsbruck in Austria have analysed the …
JUMPING genes, also known by other names (one of them being "transposable elements"), are quite extraordinary in themselves. These fragments of parasitic DNA found within the genetic material of almost all organisms, can jump from one gene sequence to another with no apparent difficulty. Their existence implies that genetic material …
