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 …
W e can start this story like a science fiction thriller. But we want to talk reality. So, before discussing the hype that fuel cells generate, let us start on a rather elementary note. The dictionary will tell you that a cell is a unit in a device for converting …
a connecticut, us -based company is all set to offer its customers a new power alternative called "green" electricity. This, it says, is not generated from oil or nuclear reactors, but from renewable sources like wind, water and methane gas. Though the electricity would be costlier by us $5-6 a …
guwahati is all set to get a clean image with the launch of two ambitious projects that will gradually rid the city of garbage. Under the new schemes, waste collected from the city will be used to produce bio-fertiliser and electricity in two separate ventures. Guwahati-based North East Green Tech …
madison town in New York has been chosen as the site for a new project to harness wind power for producing electricity. Estimated to cost us $16-million, the project has been undertaken by us company pg&e; Generating, which owns a fleet of conventional coal and gas-powered plants and some hydroelectric …
To meet the power demands of rice mills, a small-scale unit based in Tanuka, Andhra Pradesh has developed a low-cost technology to generate electricity using rice husk. After three years of research, Associated Engineering Works have come up with the rice husk gasifier, which won them the department of scientific …
the potential to generate electricity from wind is more than twice what was previously estimated. The Union ministry of non-conventional energy sources ( mnes ) reassessed the gross potential of non-conventional energy sources and upgraded the potential of the wind power sector from 20,000 megawatt (mw) to 45,000 mw. The …
after two commercial banks agreed to extend credit to consumers and guarantee loans for import of equipment, Uganda has started installing solar units for its long awaited solar rural electrification programme. The technical aspect of the pilot project will last three years. It is expected to cost us $1.7 million. …
sweden's decision to phase out its 12 nuclear power plants by 2010 took a significant step forward on November 30 when it closed its first plant, Barseback 1, which is situated on the country's west coast. Nuclear power plants generate almost half of the electricity needs of the country, of …
what do you do when the government cannot provide you with electricity, though the country's hydropower potential is a whopping 83,000 megawatts? You get it somehow. This seems to be the attitude of people living in rural Nepal, which comprises some 85 per cent of the total population. In their …
the Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party ( bjp) coalition government in Punjab has decided to do away with a number of populist measures, including free water and power provided to farmers. Gifting money to girls belonging to a scheduled caste and or the Christian community at the time of their marriage …
solar and wind power projects will prove to be profitable if governments and oil companies get behind them, speakers told a Greenpeace business conference recently. "To get such a different system to work, it is going to take tremendous levels of investment, major policy changes and a willingness to change,' …
after another disastrous year, the Delhi Vidyut Board (dvb) has prepared an action plan to meet the requirement of the city during the summer next year. According to a technical committee member of the dvb, the board is also planning to install a new power plant. "It will cost around …
The technology that powers spacecraft destined for deep space, where solar energy is not available, has been used to develop a self-contained power plant that can be mounted right inside a residential boiler. This device will prove to be quite useful in cold areas where power is expensive, sporadic or …
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 …
wind energy is considered to be the world's fastest growing energy source. And why not. It generated a record 2,100 megawatts (mw) of power in 1998. This was 35 per cent more than the previous year, according to a study conducted by Christopher Flavin of the Worldwatch Institute based in …
Small hydro power projects have been launched under the Rural Energy Development Programme in Sindhupalchok district of , Nepal. The main objective of the programme is to raise the living standards of the rural poor and protection of environment. According to the district energy "advisor, initially, electricity will be provided …
The first barge mounted power plant run by a private sector firm will be inaugurated in Bangladesh. The plant will be supplying 100 MW of electricity to the national grid. It is situated in Khulna city and has been built by the Khulna Power Company Limited (KPCL). KPCL is a …
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 …
