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 …
Ecological awareness begins at home. It is perhaps with this view that environmentalists in London have planned a village of 90 energy-efficient homes which will use the surrounding environment reserves to meet their needs. According to a press release issued by the British Commission, New Delhi, no high-technology accoutrements that …
eco-friendly truck: J Sainsbury Plc of the uk has developed the world's first solar photovoltaic-cooled food distribution truckthat aims at increasing the commercial use of the eco-friendly solar energy and reducing operating costs. Ample power for the refrigeration unit is generated by solar panels mounted on the trailer's roof. This …
Scientists at the Nimbkar Agriculture Research Institute at Phaltan in Maharashtra have developed a method to treat foul-smelling distillery wastes. What is distinctive is that they will be using solar energy and a chemical catalyst, which they have refused to name. Laboratary tests have shown that the method can detoxify …
Lack of sunshine did not deter a team of students from attempting to break a five-year-old record for the fastest solar car crossing of Australia from Perth to Sydney. The students from the University of South Wales, Australia, battled rains, floods and dust storms as they drove the solar-powered NRMA …
Anandpur Sahib in Punjab will soon become the first solar city of India. The project is being implemented by the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) through the promotion and development of non-conventional energy sources in Anandpur Sahib. This is being done on the occasion of the Khalsa tercentenary celebrations. "The …
On april 6, the world's second largest oil company, bp Amoco, became the world's largest solar energy company. It spent us $45 million to win control of Solarex, preparing itself for life after oil. But the timing does not make sense. Oil prices are plunging like never before. In real …
German companies, EG Solar and Zeo-Tech have developed a new cooling system which is cheap, reliable and easy to maintain. The system consists of a refrigerator powered by solar energy, with a built-in evaporator, one or more zeolite containers, and a parabolic concentrating solar collector. A hand-driven vacuum pump is …
A group of scientists have reported the development of a reflecting surface that is highly reflective for a broad range of wavelengths and is also insensitive to the angle at which the light strikes it. The reflecting surface is made of a special material which allows it to have unusual …
the World Bank ( wb ) has cleared the second instalment of its assistance to a solar power project in West Bengal. For the first time in the world, a 26-kilowatt (kw) solar power plant with photo-voltaic cells is being set up and one or two villages are being covered …
A NEW revolutionary energy process could end up powering cities and industries in the next century, says a team of Australian scientists. The scientists, who conducted a feasibility study, suggested that a hybrid solar fossil fuel system has the potential to produce sustainable amount of power, while emitting very little …
Controllers of the ill-fated Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are struggling to bring the spacecraft under control. Mission controllers lost the craft at the end of June, but regained contact recently. However, the craft is spinning in such a way that its solar power cells get very little sunlight. The …
Taking the lead Developing countries must take the lead in proposing a system of entitlements, and North-South trading, which is both ecologically effective and socially just THE KEY ISSUES PREVENTlNG, global warming raises a very serious question for the world"s nations. It means putting a cap or a limit on …
The Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is several times hotter than the surface. This remains one of the major mysteries of our solar system. A team of researchers led by Richard Harrison, astronomer at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, near Oxford, UK, has photographed some never-before-seen solar phenomena with …
And now a solar air heating system that would help keep your house warm. Scientists at the Turkish International Co-operation Agency have devised the system. It is designed to transfer solar energy acquired in the southern sunspace of an apartment to the northern glazed space through air ducts placed in …
Pacific Solar of Australia plans to develop a novel concept in solar technology that could allow solar panels to be plugged directly into the standard 240 volts (V) wiring system of a house
A low-cost technique could help convert more than 50 per cent of solar energy into mechanical and electrical energy. Naren Sheth, a Mumbai-based businessperson, has recently developed a solar collector with the help of technologies and skills available in rural India. The device can concentrate nearly 1,200 watts from solar …
a rhythm in the ebb of sunspot dominates the atmosphere of the Sun and influences life on the Earth as well. Some of the largest sunspots can be even seen without a telescope. Recently, C Westendorp and his colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, claim to …
Researchers may soon be able to solve the mystery of why the outermost regions of the Sun are so hot. The visible surface of the Sun has a temperature of nearly 6000
global warming and climate change has been one of the most widely debated subjects in the past years. The conflict is not limited to political interests, but extends to scientific interpretation of data. Modelling climate change has yielded contradictory results. Some scenarios are too pessimistic, while others appear too optimistic. …
