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 …
when Brij Lal Munjal of Hero Honda Motors decided to invest in four-stroke engines in 1984, industry circles thought it was quixotic. This was the time when two-strokes were ruling the roost. But the gamble paid off. Today, he is laughing all the way to the bank. Four-stroke engines have …
Alternatives hold the key to the future of the automobile industry. There is tremendous potential both in terms of performance as well as reduced health risks. But the automobile sector has failed to show any real interest in these fuels. Consider this: the use of alternative fuels can reduce the …
stories of how a promising technology can lose out in the maddening race for survival or the top slot always make interesting reading. This book is another such instance. But much more than that it is a critique on social choice, triumph of one technology over its competitors, some landmark …
Amid environmental concerns, a Venezuelan power line was inaugurated in Brazil recently. The us $400 million high-voltage line runs through Venezuela's ecologically sensitive southeast corner, including the Canaima National Park, which is the site of the Angel Falls
are the tiny grass blades capable of lighting up our houses? Farmers in Switzerland are coming up with the world's first commercial grass power station. The station, in the Schaffhausen town of northern Switzerland, would produce about three million-kilowatt hours of electricity annually from 4,400 tonnes of grass. More than …
picture this: it is the peak of summer in Kolkata and an office operates normally without any air conditioner, but none of the people inside are sweating (or complaining). West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency ( wbreda ) has proved its efficiency in renewable energy once again. Its new office …
a disaster in the making? This question is being raised about a proposal of Quebec's largest utility company, which plans to build 36 new dams on 24 rivers across the province. If implemented, the proposal would let small private energy producers to build and operate the dams. The electricity would …
it is not all quiet in the Silent Valley. Still resounding with the echoes of India's first environment movement, this precious tract of rainforests in Kerala's Kundali hills of Western Ghats, is threatened once more. As the Kerala government plans to revive a hydroelectric project in the valley, which was …
Random access memories or RAMs form an important part of a computer. M Reed and his collaborators at the Yale University, USA, have built molecular switches which could be used for storing data. These switches consist of rod-like carbon based molecules that can carry a current between two gold electrodes. …
the amount of electricity used by information technology ( it ) equipment in Japan will increase eightfold from the present levels in the next 10 years, according to a forecast. Electricity demand of the it equipment in 2010, will account for one-third of the total electricity needed by the country …
the production of six million compact fluorescent lamps ( cfl s) every year in India would eliminate the need of 3,700 megawatts of power plants and save about us $6 million, according to a study by Ashok Gadgil of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, usa. This was revealed during a …
Pakistan is planning to set up more nuclear power plants to meet the country's increasing energy demand. Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has already taken steps for setting up nuclear plants at Chashma and Karachi. "The installation of additional units would make nuclear power much more cost competitive with other …
CHITRA GOPALAKRISHNAN WASHINGTON DC It is celebration time for the nuclear power industry in usa . The cause celebre: the national energy policy unveiled by President Bush on May 18 gives the go-ahead for nuclear reactor construction after 25 years of abstinence. Arguing that nuclear power is cheap, clean, safe, …
Arjun Makhijani, president of Maryland-based Institute for Energy and Environment Research ( ieer ), contradicts the French repository programme as "non-existent'. France has no repository as yet and the proposed site is expected to come up only by 2015. There was intense opposition in France in 1987 when the French …
The Brazilian government has introduced an electricity rationing system to overcome the prevailing energy crisis. The citizens have been directed to cut down their electricity usage by 20 per cent. The households which are unable to meet the rationing targets will not get power supply for up to six days. …
plans for massive development of wind power have been recently introduced by the German government. The plans will help the country to implement its nuclear phase-out policy. All nuclear plants in Germany are set to close in 2021. "The plans are a cornerstone of Germany's changing energy production system
the solar lighting system in Mundanmudy village, the largest installation of its kind in the world, has changed the life-style of local people here. The hundreds of houses (393 precisely) lined one after the other with bright solar panels in this village of Idukki district in Kerala, are quite impressive. …
Hydro Environmental Resources Inc, USA has developed a unique energy system. When water and a patent-pending formula are added to a converter, energy is produced. In the converter, reaction takes place and hydrogen gas, electricity and clean water is produced. The working model is a self-contained portable unit. It is …
