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 government has stepped up its efforts to tap the vast reserves of gas hydrates (of methane) by deciding to launch the first phase of the four-phase Rs 213 crore National Gas Hydrate Programme. The petroleum ministry held a high-level meeting yesterday to decide on the award of a contract …
Alagh :More than 20 power projects envisaging generation of 10,000 to 11,000 MW are awaiting environmental clearance, the Union Minister of State for Power , Mr Y K Alagh, said here today.
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board has agreed to grant a further extension to two large power projects so that they can complete their financial closure. One is the 1084 mw Bhadravati power project to be implemented by Ispat Industries and the other is the 410 mw Patalganga power peoject promoted …
The Government has asked States to take steps to achieve higher targets in the biogas programme.In a note to the State Government, the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources said there was a wide gap between existing potential and the achievement made by the states in this sector.
Water flowed on Mars for a million years, a senior National Aeronautics and Space Administration official asserted on Wednesday, lending credence to the theory there was once life on the Red Planet. Wesley Huntress, Nasa's associate administrator for space science, said that recent photos from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting …
A top official of the American gas and energy giant, Enron Corp, arrived in Kathmandu to push forward its proposal to develop the huge 10,800 megawatt Karnali-Chispani project.
The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Central Bureau of investigaion on an urgent application seeking appropriate action, including contempt proceedings, against CBI officers responsible for summoning and raiding offices of the petitioner in the Rs 2,000 crore Mukta Panna oil field deal.
A major hurdle in the way of Goa's power privatisation process has been removed last week with the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court dismissing a writ petition which challenged the power purchase agreement (PPA) between the state government and Reliance Salgaonkar Ltd.
China has set a target of meeting energy resource demands by the year 2010 to guarantee rapid economic and social development, according to a senior State Planning Commission official. China will establish an energy resource storage system and have rational regional distribution in the coming years and will work on …
In northwest China's Qinghai Province, herdsmen, who used to use candles or butter lamps for lighting at night are able to watch television or use washing machines at home thanks to solar energy. Nearly 30,000 families of herdsmen, or 30 per cent of Qinghai's total, are now using solar energy …
The Scottish scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep, said he may have made a mistake and will try the task again with other kinds of animals, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported on Tuesday."There is a remote possibility that the cell came from a fetus rather than from the adult," Mr Ian …
The European Parliament will decide today whether to push for tougher European Union targets for reducing car emissions- a step which could increase costs to the oil and motor industries by billions of dollors. In a second reading of the "auto-oil" programme, calling for action by car-makers and oil-refiners to …
Experts from Russia are in the city to finalise the contractual terms of the detailed project report (DPR) for the $3.1-billion Koodankulam 2000 MW nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to set up a separate joint venture hydro-power company by next year, in a bid to expand its own operations from thermal to the hydel sector.
The State has been awarded the first prize for outstanding performance towards popularisation of solar photo-voltaic programme during 1995-96 by the Union Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources.
A deatiled analysis of how building foundations are damaged due to liquefaction of the ground during a large-scale earthquake is now psssible, thanks to experiments by a research team of private, public and academic concerns led by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention.
Garlic protects against disease-causing micro-organisms. But till recently, no one knew how it performs the germ-killing function. David Mirelman of the Wiezmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, has discovered that garlic contains a peptide called allicin which attacks proteins rich with amino acids. When the researcher exposed Entamoeba histolytica parasites …
imagine the loudest sound you have heard. And then amplify it. That is exactly what physicists in Virginia, usa , have done. They have bottled up sound waves crammed with 1,600 times more energy than before. This achievement, they claim, will lead to powerful machinery driven by sound in time. …
in a bid to boost rural development, engineers in Jaipur have developed a software that would help parched villagers by assisting them predict water supplies. It would also help in proper management of water. The software, called SimTanka , simulates the performance of rainwater harvesting systems with covered water storage …
remember the superhero from Krypton? His amazing x-ray vision is no longer restricted to comic-book imagination. Kiriakos Kutulakos, computer scientist at University of Rochestor in New York, usa, and student James Vallino have transformed pulp science fiction to reality. Called augmented reality, the technique enables a person to automatically access …
