Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
GREEN INITIATIVES "One cannot envisage life in the city without ringing mobiles, air conditioners, blenders, fans, blazing lights, refrigerators, But when we thought about how many of these are essential and took a step back in time, it was a revelation of sorts", says Priti and Srikanth Vanashree is an …
PARIS: Updating the waterwheel to generate electricity and compete with solar and wind As sources of green power go, generating electricity from hydropower, using a creek or stream on your local property, has a lot to recommend it. Provided you have a stream, that is, and it flows fast and …
India's first integrated solar housing project is complete. This is a milestone and trendsetter in present times as it revolves around a concern for extending the life span of natural resources while at the same time providing human comfort, safety and productivity Amid the depleting wilderness of an upcoming township …
Solar cells adorn the roofs of many homes and warehouses across Germany, while the bright white blades of wind turbines are a frequent sight against the sky in Spain. If one day these machines become as common on the plains and rooftops of the United States as they are abroad, …
CHENNAI: Solar and nuclear technology will drive the world of the future, but it is essential to make them economically viable as quickly as possible, according to Baldev Raj, Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research at Kalpakkam. Addressing students of Stella Maris College at the first Dr. …
Solar cells are expensive, so it makes sense to use them efficiently. One way to do so is to concentrate sunlight onto them. That means a smaller area of cell can be used to convert a given amount of light into electricity. This, though, imposes another cost-that of the mirrors …
A NEW STUDY by Penn State University researchers has determined that dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power. Burning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal release large amounts of CO2, …
Mumbai: While Maharashtra reels under a power crisis, Mumbai citizens are doing their bit to save electricity. The 200-m long walkway along the newly-renovated promenade at Bandra
US-based Astonfield Renewable Resources today said it is planning to invest $2 billion (nearly Rs 10,000 crore) in the next five years, and a major portion of it would be used for setting up solar power projects in India. "We plan an investment of $2 billion in the next 4-5 …
CHENNAI: Solar and nuclear technology will drive the world of the future, but it is essential to make them economically viable as quickly as possible, according to Baldev Raj, Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research at Kalpakkam. Addressing students of Stella Maris College at the first Dr. …
The pyramid produces distilled water from harvested rainwater using solar energy Mountain of hope: Women on their way back home after filling water from
At National Park of the capital or Van Vihar, though something new or the other is frequently organised, moreover planning of adopting new animals is going on rapidly. Till now, seven wild animals are adopted by the people of state capital other part of the country. From this they are …
Solar panels installed atop houses. G Rajasekaran SALEM: Bureaucratic red tape in Karantaka has stymied all development activity in about 15 villages in the forests adjacent to Mettur taluk in Tamil Nadu. The villages, including Jamburuttu, Al
For India to harness the 5,000 trillion kWh equivalent energy that solar radiation makes available in a year, all that needs to be done is dedicate one per cent of the country
