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 …
ENGINEERs at Vickers, Britain's leading tank manufacturers, are working on plans to replace today's lumbe- ring diesel-driven vehicles with silent, electrically powered tanks made of plastic that would use stealth techno- logy to evade enemy radar in the battlefield. With detachable suits of armour made from layers of reinforced plastic, …
TODAY, from all states. The very object of convening this meeting is to work out the national policy in power sector. In the last four months, after I took over the responsibility of the administration at the Centre, I have realised that there is no proper national power policy. In …
The controversial Nam Theun ii hydro dam project has run into trouble. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand ( egat ) has cancelled plans to purchase electricity from the dam. The cancellation has dealt a final blow to the dam's developers, who have poured us $30 million into the project …
the P rime Minister's announcement on September 10, that all fast track power projects requiring less than Rs 1,000 crore investment will be henceforth cleared by state governments is a clear attempt to dilute the powers of the Centre in a sector which needs its attention the most. It is …
Waste Gas Technology (WGT) Inc, Hampshire, UK, has developed a new technique for utilising waste to produce electricity which, it claims, is twice as effective as conventional incineration. Depending on the waste material used, the thermo-crack system developed by WGT will generate 1000-4000 kilo-watt-hour (kwh) from a tonne of waste, …
The world will require 1,330 giga watts of new electric generating capacity in the next 15 years according to Hans Weinrich, head of the Sweden-based Asea Brown Boveri's (ABB) transmission and distribution unit. The new capacity would be distributed around the globe, with 15 per cent in the US, 20 …
With a power crisis looming over the island nation, Sri Lankans may have to contend with a hot and power-less summer this year. Such is the crisis that power cuts may he in place for 10- 12 hours each day which could affect ki various sectors. Engineers at the Ceylon …
A 'POWER tower', 7,000 metres-high, which could produce pollution-free energy from the North Sea, is being proposed by researchers in the Netherlands. Its proponents claim that the tower coUld gener- ate nearly twice as much electricity as Drax, Britain's largest power station, by harnessing the same natural ~ystem that cauSes …
The largest methane gas collection programme in the world has begun at a huge sewage treatment plant at Werribee near Melbourne, Australia. The plant is expected to generate 800 KW of electricity. Sewage at the plant is treated in ponds in a two- phased process. The first is by an …
Scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Pacific Power, Australia, have produced a synthesis of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by combining methane, carbon dioxide and the sunlight, which makes it possible to store and transport solar energy. When the synthesised gas is changed back into carbon …
FROM this year, Chicago (us), will start using three prototype buses powered by fuel cells of a type which were aban- doned after the Gemini space pro- gramme in 1996, but resurrected by Ballard Power Systems of Vancouver - a small Canadian firm of engineers. The only thing coming out …
EXACTLY 16 months after the UK government stopped aiding research into wave power on the grounds that it had no commercial future, the world's first wave-powered electricity generator has been launched off the shore of Scotland. Promising mass production of power at a wondrously cheap rate, the new electricity generator …
ELECTRIC cars have long been viewed as environment- friendly substitutes to the conventional petrol and diesel driven cars, But one of the main problems confronting the electric car manufacturers is the long time - sometimes as much as 12 hours - that it takes to recharge the vehicles' batteries. Now, …
THE chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulation Board (AERB), A Gopalakrishnan, has urged the media and public to take a sensible view of the accidental leak of radioactive waste from the Waste Immobilisation Plant (WIP) of the Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPS) and "not to blow up the incident to …
Dorvial Michel, a scientist at Compagnie Industrielle de Tubes et Lamps Electriques Citel, a French company, has devised a lightning arrester. The device has an external metal casing containing a neutral gas (that does not react easily), a metal electrode and a fuse. Under normal conditions, the electrode is electrically …
A $91 million electricity generation plant, jointly financed by a French construction firm and the Ivorian government, promises to metamorphose the west African nation of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) from an importer of power to a major supplier in the region. The plant will generate 100 megawatts (mw) initially, which …
GEOTHERMAL power is fast emerging as a significant source for electricity in several island nations, mainly in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific regions (The Royal Geographical Society Magazine, Vol 68, No 3). For instance, Indonesia is setting up 2 geothermal power plants each of 55 mw capacity on the …
