Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
If humans desire to live for many more centuries to come, they have to take desperate steps to protect the environment. The socio-economic health of civilisations depends on it. A case in point is that of the power sector. India faces a huge energy deficit: till 2001, only 44 per …
Albania in southeastern Europe has imposed severe power cutbacks in the country. Drought and poorly maintained infrastructure threaten to bring electricity production to a halt in the country. Electricity supply for general consumers are to be restricted to four to eight hours a day, said Korporata Elektro-energjetike Shqiptare (kesh), the …
Ground truthsWheeling-dealing for CDM benefits Close to Godhra town in Gujarat is a factory of the Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (gfl). The mammoth factory has a unique claim to national, and global, fame: it is India's first project to be approved under the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm). It has successfully met …
us researchers have fabricated a solar cell out of everyday plastic, hoping to meet the growing energy demand with a more affordable way to harness the Sun. Scientists at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California at Los Angeles (ucla), led by Yang Yang, hope …
abundant bacteria: Scientists say soil contains 100 times more bacteria species than believed. Previous studies estimated a gramme of unpolluted soil contained about 10,000 bacteria species. But a fresh analysis of soil data by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the US, suggests the actual number …
For the Indian public, Kargil brings back memories of war. But here in Tikat village, 11,000 feet above sea level in Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir (j&k;), people feel their district will soon be known for the state's first community-managed micro-hydel project. Their pride is understandable. All the 70 households of …
the global quest to generate commercial energy through nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the Sun, took a concrete shape with France being selected as the host for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Project (iter). The decision came after 18 months of wrangling with Japan
Where do our renewables stand and how was the market earlier? With its wide network and resource availability, India is currently well-placed. Wind energy has emerged as the best option for grid-connected power. The private sector accounts for almost 97 per cent of the total installed wind power capacity of …
prime minister Manmohan Singh approved a whopping Rs 174,000 crore for the Bharat Nirman scheme on May 16, 2005. The scheme, which will be operational from 2005 to 2009, acuses on improving physical infrastructure in rural areas. Its thrust areas are irrigation, roads, water supply, housing, electrification and telecom connectivity. …
Madhab Baru is a worried man. His livestock keep falling ill these days. The cows pass black dung and the goats, especially the kids, suffer from diarrhoea. It's the black dust from the factory across the road, says the small time farmer of Harirampur, a remote village in West Bengal's …
India's total energy requirement has doubled over the last three decades: from 147.05 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 437.69 mtoe. I t's of course well known that indiscriminate burning of hydrocarbon fuels causes much global warming. According to several press reports, several Europeans died of oppressive heat last …
A major challenge facing developing countries is how to allocate scarce capital, especially public capital, for the provision of basic services. Electrification, as part of an integrated service delivery package, is both a large draw on public funds and also an important catalyst for economic development. One of the major …
the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (neepc) was recently forced by the people to order a resurvey of the 110 megawatt Dikrong hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh. Heated discussions marked the public hearing on the proposed project, held at Upia. Deputy commissioner of Papum Pare district, Bida Gadi, who was …
smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Philip Morris, the world's leading tobacco manufacturer, studied the effects of smoking 30 years ago, but it did not reveal the dangers of passive smoking. powered at last: The first wind power plant of the Arabian …
large-scale construction of dams is preventing sedimentation in delta regions, in turn making it easier for the sea to advance and encroach on pristine ecosystems. This is what researchers at the Andhra University, Visakhapatanam, have found. The most devastating outcomes of this phenomenon are displacement of coastal communities and destruction …
