The sun also sets
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 13, 2008, 0:40 IST India's science and development is in a poor way and needs a guiding light.
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi December 13, 2008, 0:40 IST India's science and development is in a poor way and needs a guiding light.
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The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum on Thursday directed Silverline Industries, manufacturers of a solar water heater, to repair a heater. They will, otherwise, be liable to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation.
The Vatican was set to go green on Wednesday with the activation of a new solar energy system to power several key buildings and a commitment to use renewable energy for 20 percent of its needs by 2020.
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. A cemetery in Santa Coloma de Gramenet is now producing enough power for 60 homes. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.
By DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID
Millions of rural Indians have never experienced how electricity can change their lives. So, their life grinds to a halt as soon as the sun sets. But providing power to the villages would mean more coal-burning by power plants that already emit more than 50 per cent of India
In the context of growing emission of carbon dioxide in coal-based power stations, solar energy promises to be a viable alternative and a clean energy source. Yet, the market for solar energy remains small and uneconomic, confined as the system is to households in remote villages and delinked from the network of electricity grids.
Australian mining firms, hit by high fuel costs and falling commodity prices, could soon swap their diesel generators for 24-hour, solar-power systems, the head of a private renewable power firm said on Thursday.
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By Dhanya Sri As India has got a great potential to tap solar, wind and biomass, hydro power and sea wave power, we should look at these areas to help rural areas.
We need to move towards a form of sustainable development that is economically sound, socially equitable and environmentally responsible. Solar energy is clearly the way forward, says K Subramanya.
Solar panels installed on the roof of a hotel The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation is dangling an extra-income option and tax sops before companies to make them generate solar power. For a month from November 15, business establishments with roofs larger than 50,000 sq ft can seek permission from the corporation to produce solar power there.