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 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said it had switched $15m in funding away from short term safety upgrades at Chernobyl's reactor number 3 to funds for decommissioning the whole plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.
Planter Energy Network(PEN), Madurai, has agreed to entrust to the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) the work of licensing and commercial exploitation of its technologies and processes. As a non-governmental organisation engaged in the field of development and promotion of solar air drying technologies, PEN has evolved processes and know-how …
The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Phdcci) has urged the government to expedite the setting up of central and state electricity regulatory commisions to bring about stability in the power sector.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation of 300 megawatt coal based thermal power plant, the first of its kind in the country. An estimated 0.83 millions tons of coal to be extracted from the Barapukuria coal mine will be used every year to generate electricity from the plant.
The state government has decided to challenge the Karnataka High Court order directing a CBI inquiry into alleged kickbacks in the Cogentrix power project.
A Dutch biotechnology company has announced it has successfully cloned two female calves. The two genetically identical claves are in good health after their birth last Tuesday on a farm in the northern Netherlands.
The Karnataka High Court today ordered a CBI probe into the alleged payment of kickbacks in the setting up of the Rs 4200-crore coal-based power plant by Cogentrix Engineering at Mangalore.
two major Russian oil firms have planned to join hands. According to Russian officials, the merger would create a new force to be reckoned with on the domestic and global energy. Yukos, Russia's second largest oil producer and its number one refiner, will take a 60 per cent stake in …
The most irritating problems the users of laptops face is the constant threat of batteries running out. But now, Japan's Seiko Epson has come up with a new windup computer. No more charging, the users now can simply "wind-up" their laptops like an alarm clock without having to worry about …
perceptions, motivations, deductions and choices. These seem simple enough for us. After all, making thousands of choices everyday, taking numerous decisions - important or insignificant - do not appear difficult to us. But what comes easily to the human mind can become exceedingly difficult for technology to replicate. A robot, …
since the days of the magnetic or paper tape, data-storage technology has come long way. Magnetic disks, compact discs and now, even optical storage is fast becoming a reality. Of these, hologra-phic memory appears the most promising way to store huge amounts of data. With ultra-high storage densities, faster data …
Net secrets The new year had not even begun and UK's Public Record Office (PRO) unveiled the classified records for 1967. A week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson, the then prime minister, had observed. Perhaps this is why the government keeps its secret for as long …
Low-tar, filter-tipped cigarettes have only increased the incidence of adenocarcinomas, a cancer occurring deep inside the lungs. According to the American Cancer Society, only non-filtered cigarettes were linked to lung cancers so far. But data on the disease reveal that adenocarcinomas, never linked to smoking earlier, was rising in those …
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) and the Union government have jointly launched a $19.5 million project for extraction and utilisation of methane from coal mines for use in power generation.
Only two of the 15 national players in UK's soon to be liberalised retail electricity market take the environment seriously enough to offer "green" tariffs to customers. Eastern and South Western have begun marketing electricity produced from renewable energy sources - such as wind power - to help capture new …
BJP : The Karnata State BJP general secretary and MLC Ramachandra Gowda today alleged that Chief Minister J H Patel has received kickbacks from American multinational Cogentrix for helping it to get central clearance for its 1000-MW power project to be set up in Mangalore.
The Haryana has been awarded first prize by the Union Government for its out-standing performance in popularising solar photovoltaic programme during 1996-97, the Minister of State for Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Mr. Attar Singh Saini, said here.
