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 …
genetic tinkering can produce plants that can be made to bloom as and when required. Doused with the correct chemical trigger, they spring into bloom within days. George Coupland and his colleagues at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, say that if plants could be persuaded to flower as and when …
A printing process based on reprintable papers has been developed that would help avoid wastage of paper. The new system envisages tiny dots of special ink encapsulated within an ordinary paper. By raising the temperature in the printer, the paper can be wiped clean which is stable in the same …
the activities exhibited by a human body and other organisms are regulated by a biological clock that is encoded in genes. When there are no clues available from the external world (such as sunrise and sunset), the biological clock enables the body to count time in units of 24 hours. …
Cow urine, which is used in several ayurvedic medicines, can also generate electricity. Scientists working with the Rajasthan Gosewa Aayog, Jaipur, conducted an experiment at the state secretariat in which electric current was generated from cow urine. About one and a half litre of urine was put in a plastic …
sapphire chips will revolutionise the information technology as it is ideal for satellite mobile phones, desktop personal computer ( pc) systems, wireless communications, small satellites, notebook pc s and other hand-held digital products. This technology etches electrical circuits on wafers of sapphire rather than silicon. The production of this chip …
Plans are being finalised for the world's largest radio telescope by astronomers from India, Australia, Canada and three other countries. The telescope
In chips and piecesEverything needed to browse the Web and send e-mail will soon be put into a single microprocessor. The Japanese firm Toshiba, in association with iReady, a chip designer from San Jose, California, are close to developing the Internet Tuner chip that will allow manufacturers to give features, …
a low-cost cooling chamber that increases the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables has been developed by Susanta K Roy and his team at the Division of Fruits and Horticulture Technology at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi ( Science Reporter , Vol 34, No 6). Even though …
British Telecom's research laboratories in Martlesham, Suffolk, have developed a pocket dictionary-sized box that could replace the wiring needed in offices to connect computers and telephones. Known as passive picocell, the box can fit on the wall or the ceiling of an office. A prototype of the product has been …
a new method presented by Paul Wessel and Loren W Kroenke at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union offers a way to locate hot spots under the ocean more easily and precisely than ever before ( Scientific American, Vol 276, No 4). Described as hot-spotting, the technique depends …
MOST deserts of the world are extensive grasslands with scattered shrubs but they sustain relatively a low density of trees. Due to harsh climatic conditions, scanty natural resources and scarcity of drinking water, the deserts are thinly populated by humans. However, a wide variety of wild animals, well adapted to …
A boat powered by flippers, rather than a propeller, is being developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. The system, based on the swimming action of the penguin, uses two motor-driven flippers, thereby saving fuel and energy, claim the developers. The flippers are designed to produce the same hydrodynamics …
The latest Western celebrity to seek the East's heating touch is British billionaire and father-in-law of cricket icon lmran Khan, Sir James Goldsmith. The healer is the renowned metal therapist based in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh,'Vaidya Balendu Prakash, who is treating Goldsmith, 64, in Paris for cancer. The cancer, that …
A 450 MEGAWATT barge-mounted combined cycle power plant is scheduled to start operating in Pakistan by 1999. The plant, which is believed to be the world's largest barge-mounted power plant, will be constructed in the us on six barges and shipped halfway around the world to Port Qasim in Karachi. …
A PILOTLESS aircraft, that should be able to stay in the air for weeks, circling the globe to monitor the state of the earth's atmosphere and to keep an eye on pollution levels is being developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Pathfinder, as it is galled, is …
A NEW, almost completely biodegradable credit card was jointly launched by the Greenpeace and the Co-operative bank at the Design Museum, London, on May 7. This is the first time that a card which is 99.9 per cent polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-free has been produced. 'The card is made of a …
UNUSUAL stoves that make use of rice hull as fuel have been designed by some entrepreneurs in the Philippines. With rising costs of fossil fuels and firewood disappearing from forests, rice-hull stoves are increasingly becoming popular in the service industries as well as in rural households in the Philippines (Sustainable …
A spy plane that can scrutinise a country the size of Switzerland in two days from an attitude of 19,760m has been unveiled by the US Defence Department. Pentagon chiefs say it is likely to be used above the reach of enemy craft to guide a low-attitude unmanned spy plane, …
the Alps, the Himalaya and the Caucasus mountains once formed part of an unbroken chain of a mountain range some 40 to 45 million years ago. According to two Australian geologists, this colossal mountain range stretched all the way from Spain, through Asia, to the southwest Pacific, may be as …
earthquakes round the world are dragging the North Pole towards Japan. It has been discovered by Giorgio Spada of the University of Bologna, Italy, that the largest of the quakes, most of which occur along the Pacific rim, tend to tilt the pole towards their epicentres. This finding is a …
