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 …
In its cynical sense, the price of power is a phrase which often evokes rich imagery. Seen from any angle, the Indian government's decision to go in for what is going to be the world's largest, private sector electricity plant, to be constructed at Dabhol in Maharashtra by the US …
Sulabh International, which has designed and installed over 2,000 public lavatories in slums and resettlement colonies, has just developed a lavatory design that recycles compost to generate biogas for cooking fuel. "We plan to set up 61 such complexes throughout the country," says N D Mazumdar, director (technical research) of …
THE United States has once again lost the battle to use trade measures to determine not only tuna fishing methods but also the impact of tuna fishing on other species. In response to a complaint by the Netherlands and the European Community, the second panel report of the General Agreement …
The title would cause non-scientists to groan, "Not another harangue on equity..." Scientists might dismiss it as a bit of hackery -- how could anyone be preposterous enough to say that equity is good science? But C V Seshadri is no hack writer or blinded boffin. Despite his Carnegie Mellon …
ASIA is emerging as the focus for the debates and implementation of nuclear power. The International Atomic Energy Agency reveals that in 1993, the construction of over 10 nuclear power reactors began in Asia. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US corroborates this revelation. According to a recent EIA …
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DESPERATE to conserve energy, the West Bengal government is planning to follow Kerala in making energy audits compulsory for industries. According to government estimates, by 1996-97, power supply during peak hours will fall short by 20 per cent and total energy by 10 per cent. A high-level technical committee, constituted …
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1828: Friedrich Wohler shows how artificial urea can be made 1856: William Perkins makes Mauveine, the first synthetic dye 1872: Louis Pasteur identifies the microbial origins of fermentation 1883: Emil Christian Hansen finds that wild yeast can destroy fermentation 1912: Chaim Weizmann discovers acetone and butanol and ends the search …
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RECENT research in Indonesia has revealed that urban waste and bagasse from sugar cane can be used to generate electricity, reports Dewi Sartika for Panos Features. This would also help solve the problems of waste disposal and pollution created by sewage leakage. However, the hunt for partners for the projects …
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THESE are difficult times for UK farmers. Food surpluses are forcing land to be taken out of food production. In many instances, farmers are being paid to leave their land idle - the system of "set-aside" payments - but this fails to compensate fully for falling incomes. Farmers have been …
OCTOPUSES, sting rays and other marine creatures may soon have their first encounter with a personal computer (PC). Bruce W Macdonald, a marine engineer at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland, has developed a WetPC that can help divers to count fish, check maps and diagnose equipment …
THE JYAPU farmers use their own farming techniques, fertilisers and pesticides. And, though they have no formal training in genetics or plant breeding, they maximise yields. The process begins with digging and turning the soil. The land is ploughed with a crooked hoe called a ku. If the soil is …
VITAL Signs responds to the need for information on the trends that are reshaping our world. It surveys 42 global indicators, such as the decline in per capita availability of food and water, economic recession over the past two years, increasing water scarcity and the population increase to outline the …
Remember how Hansel and Gretel followed a trail of bread crumbs back home? Australian scientists have engineered an industrial robot that spits out camphor, which it can later detect and follow. The robot, developed by researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane and Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, can either follow …
SUNLIGHT has been used for thousands of years to heat or cool buildings. Originally a matter of mere survival, it has since become an expression of the human need to harness solar energy and create a better world for themselves. Historical records suggest the formidable powers of the sun, both …
