Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Germany is going to promote installation of photovoltaic (PV) equipment on 100,000 roofs and facades throughout the country. In terms of budget and investment volume, this is the largest market scheme for PV technology ever launched, aiming to create a total energy generating capacity of 300 MW within just three …
British consumers will soon be able to buy "green' electricity following the launch of renewable energy power stations. Ecotricity, a joint venture between Renewable Energy Company and Thames Water Private Limited Company, was formed as part of the government's Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (nffo) scheme. British energy minister John Battle, speaking …
the energy crisis that raised its fearsome head in the 1970s is not really over yet. Threatening to bring the industrial world to a grinding halt, it finds new guises to sustain itself. The two billion people across the globe for whom clean, safe and cheap fuel remains inaccessible can …
German companies, EG Solar and Zeo-Tech have developed a new cooling system which is cheap, reliable and easy to maintain. The system consists of a refrigerator powered by solar energy, with a built-in evaporator, one or more zeolite containers, and a parabolic concentrating solar collector. A hand-driven vacuum pump is …
Wind Energy Group (WEG), a UK- based company has developed a new wind turbine to cater to the demand for medium-scale three-blade wind turbines. The turbine, MS4-600 has a 41-metre diameter rotor that operates downwind of the tower and can self-align with the wind. The blades are very flexible to …
China installed its first commercial wind farm near the city of Shantou. The 24-mega-watt wind farm was put up by Dutch and Chinese developers. It is the largest commercial wind farm in Asia that has not been subsidised. The plant represents 25 per cent of the nations total wind capacity …
Fuel made from plants may soon provide cheap energy to the rural areas in developing countries. The alternative is a result of the research which has found a method to generate concentrated gas from farm waste. Robert Brown of the Center for Coal and Environment at the Iowa State University …
Palahi, a sleepy village in the Kapurthala district of Punjab, has set an example in the use of non-conventional sources of energy. All the gurudwaras, private hospitals, nursing homes and a large number of households have solar water heaters, according to Gurmit Singh of the Community Polytechnic. Palahi and four …
WATCH out Don Quixote. The windmills are staging a comeback in Europe. Wind energy is the best alternative to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. By using windmills, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) believes that Europe will be able to churn out 4,000 mega watts (MW) of energy …
SCIENTISTS all over the world are working hard to find alternative energy sources which are environment friendly. Stephen Paul of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, is also one of them. Paul who has done research on nuclear fusion, believes that waste hydrocarbons might still be useful as vehicle fuels, …
The National Aerospace Laboratory, Japan, has developed a thermoelectric device, which can convert heat energy into electricity with a record-high energy-conversion efficiency of 17 per cent. This break-through is expected to increase the use of thermoelectric devices, for example, using waste heat from incinerators and factories. As thermoelectric devices can …
ALTHOUGH most modern attempts to harness tide wave power have failed, there is new optimism in the air. Scientists could soon start power generation with the help of underwater version!; of wind turbines. Efforts are on to set up "tidal farms" in coastal waters from the southwest of England to …
A FEW decades ago, David Croxton, farmer and consultant agronomist, would have struggled to support his family finances. But not today. At present, Croxton owns about 150 hectare (ha) farm near Kingsbridge in south Devon, UK. And this achievement follows an advice to use "elephant grass" - miscanthus - as …
global stocks of natural gas are enormous. Industry analysts estimate that the world holds enough recoverable natural gas to produce 500 billion barrels of synthetic crude. If this gas is converted into liquid form, it can provide fuel for nearly a decade after conventional supplies of crude oil begin to …
Scientists may soon develop an ultra-efficient solar panel by fabricating several layers of different coloured films. These films would harness the Sun's power in the same way as done by plants during the photosynthesis process. Plants use coloured leaves to absorb various wavelengths of sunlight and convert it into energy. …
Technological breakthroughs may help reduce the average cost of wave power. British researchers have developed a few techniques that are able generate electricity for under US $1 per kilowatt-hour (kwh). This is the cost below which energy production becomes competitive. Stephen Salter at the University of Edinburgh, UK, has developed …
scientists in the us have developed a hydro-electric generating system. The device can either convert the energy potential of a river or canal as it flows downhill, or extract energy from in and out movements of tides. The system does not require a dam for generating energy because it operates …
a three-year project based on copper intensive technologies would be soon implemented in order to increase energy efficiency in India and China. The un Common Fund for Commodities, the International Copper Association, Copper Development Centre of India and the International Institute for Energy Conservation ( iiec ), a us -based …
A metal catalyst may one day bring cheaper fuel. Flemming Besenbacher of the University of Aarhus, and Jens Norskov at the Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark, took a catalyst for steam reforming, where hydrocarbons from natural gas are converted to molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to produce …
