Advancing sustainable development in Africa
<p>The report provides a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) roadmaps aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan
Energy Technology
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Loyola Institute of Solar Energy and Technology opened
Shastry V. Mallady It will function as a resource, research, training and production centre MADURAI: To encourage use of solar energy, an institute under the name Loyola Institute of Solar Energy and Technology (LSET) was inaugurated here on Saturday.
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Science and Technology Council to promote renewable energy
Shastry V. Mallady It will give 5 per cent of its annual budget for research in key areas MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology has decided to allocate five per cent of its annual budget for promoting renewable energy.
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Tackling U.S. energy challenges and opportunities
The incoming Obama Administration and the 111th Congress face enormous challenges and opportunities in tackling the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems posed by the energy sector in the United States and worldwide. Improving the technologies of energy supply and end-use is a prerequisite for surmounting these challenges in a timely and cost-effective way.
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White organic light-emitting diodes with fluorescent tube efficiency
Light-emitting diodes based on organic materials (known as OLEDs) have a number of attractive qualities that could make them the light sources of choice for the future. Unfortunately until now they have never reached the power efficiencies of fluorescent tubes.
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Options for small-scale biodiesel production to self-supply the energy needs of isolated communities in Amazonia
Over 83% of rural families living in the Amazonian jungle of Peru have no access to electrical energy because of the difficulty and high cost of extending the electricity grid to the region. The sustainable use of biomass to generate energy could make a significant contribution in this regard, in particular in the form of liquid biofuels such as biodiesel and vegetable oils.
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Hearing to decide zero power-cut models survival
Pune The survival of Pune
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Green promise seen in switch to led lighting
Environment Elisabeth Rosenthal and Felicity Barringer Light emitting diodes could decrease carbon dioxide emissions by up to 50 per cent in just over 20 years TO CHANGE the bulbs in the 60-foothigh ceiling lights of Buckingham Palace
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Crude without the tar: Making fuels from algae
Algae are quickly becoming the most attractive successor to traditional biofuels feedstocks like corn and soybeans, and even to next-generation feedstocks such as switchgrass and jatropha, Although algal biofuels are not yet being produced or consumed on a commercial scale, a number of companies are working their way toward doing exactly that, possibly as soon as 2010.
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Ocean wave power generation - concept for trial in Orissa and other coastal states
Wave power generation cum shore protection project envisages tapping the energy of ocean waves and wind for the generation of electricity and integrating it with the national power grid. A number of impellors are arranged parallel to the shore for a span of 500 m at a distance of about 100 m from the seashore. Impellers are designed to tap the trienergies of ocean waves.
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Hot rock power scheme could brew trouble in Eden
The launch of a UK project to extract geothermal energy from hot dry rocks comes soon after two high-profile setbacks elsewhere in the world.