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 …
IT WAS 250 million years ago that life took its first beating - the worst ever - when mass extinctions marked the end of the Permian period. A group of American palaeontologists say that they have evidence to prove that the extinctions in the Permian period, which devoured 90 per …
William Wood, a geneticist from the University of Colorado at Boulder, US, has found a method for controlling crop-decimating nematode (roundworm) populations. A gene, isolated from another small worm - Caenorhabditis elegans - can determine whether a fertilised egg will become a male worm. This gene has been named Her-I …
Japan is setting up a US $40 million laser-based monitoring station - Keystone - to help predict earthquakes. It will he set up around the Tokyo Bay area which lies at the junction of three giant tectonic plates on the earth's crust. Laser beams are bounced off from satellite reflectors …
Artificial, "but better than the real thing"- is how the new artificial bone material is being described. Developed by William Bonfield of the Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, the material is called Hapex (The Eastern Pharmacist, Vol XXXVIII, No 455). Initially, Hapex will be used to make small replacement …
ANIMAL Rights International has accused the department of animal husbandry and dairy of the ministry of agriculture, of openly flouting rules by planning to set up abattoir-cum-carcass utilisation plants near 10 pre-selected Air Force airfields. According to the plan, (vide reference no: 3-34/95 fin) the slaughter houses will be set …
SINCE July last year, the municipal garbage dump at Gladokvarn, outside Stockholm, has been yielding gas at the rate of 22,000 in per day from gas wells up to 20 in deep. The gas is carried via a 13 km-long pipeline to a 5 mw heating plant which, in turn, …
A NOVEL technique for storing and studying cold atoms using audio tapes and floppy disks has recently been developed. E Hinds and his colleagues at Yale University, US, have reported creating a magneto-optic trap alongwith a magnetic mirror, with which they have managed to trap rubidium atoms (Physical Review Letters, …
Heatermeals of Cincinnati, USA, has made it possible to have a warm meal anywhere and anytime you wish. Details on the new device (Newsweek, September 25, 1995) states: "remove the food container from the packing carton, pour two ounces of water on its food-heating pad - this starts a chemical …
Scientists from the Laboratory of Marine Hydrology, Montpellier University in France have discovered the smallest algal species in the Than Lake, near the Mediterranean Sea (Technical News, No 11, November 1995). This single-celled eukaryote measures less than a micrometre (10-6 M) in diameter. Its unique structure, characteristic mode of division …
With the sighting of an important gasfield in Bhola, in the south islands on the tip of Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh's gas reserves will soon go up 10 per cent from the current reserves of 10,000 billion standard cubic feet. The gas find which will become the 18th commercial gasfield, …
Viruses pose a great threat to agriculture. An effective method for controlling the menace is raising plantlets by in vitro propagation in expensive greenhouses which require artificial lighting. Now, scientists at the Institute of Plant Research and Biotechnology (IPRB) in Cuba, have invent- ed a method that does away with …
LIKE most technological discoveries and their innovated incarnations, power-supplying batteries are a necessary evil. While modern life cannot be envisaged without them, the environmental toll they take is fearsome. Hence, scientists are hot in pursuit of an environmentally benign cell. Researchers looking for new dry batteries, are working on finding …
The Pioneer 11, which had transmit- ted some spectacular pictures of Jupiter and its moons, is now drifting towards interstellar space some 6.5 billion kin from the earth. Its power generators, four radioisotope thermoelectric generators and electronic gear have outlived themselves. The spacecraft's radio transmissions are now too weak to …
A drop of blood, a drop of reagent, a glass slide and 10 seconds is all one needs to detect AIDS. This single step AIDS test has been developed by Delhi University-based bio-chemists helped by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical " Education and Research, Chandigarh (PTI Science Service, October 1-15,1995). …
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THE World Energy Council (WEC) assures that the energy consumers across the globe will receive more efficient, cleaner and less obtrusive energy services in the future. This is the leading conclusion of a keynote report on global long term energy prospects presented at a meeting, organised by )4,Ec, at Tokyo …
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Rotten fish stinks, and so smell had always been held as the conclusive proof of its freshness. But now, one Icelandic company has done away with all that smelling business. A gadget they have developed, says the Financial Times (July 30) London, tests the freshness of a fish by measuring …
An electricity generating wind turbine system for installation on roofs of urban homes has been designed by UK energy consultant Derek Taylor (Wind Power Monthly, Vol 11, No 7). Developed by Taylor's company Altechnica, this roof wind energy system is like a roof venting system in appearance and takes advantage …
