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Dustbins Designed by IIT Mumbai Will “Approach” People
The interactive dustbin developed by the six IIT-Bombay students will not only approach people and tell them to put trash into it, but it is also programmed to say 'thank you' when they oblige. The device has three sensors programmed to detect the nearest person, align the wheels towards him/her...
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India Keen on Cleaning up Varanasi, Ganges
Even though Rolls Royce cars are being sold in their dozens to Indian billionaires, the lack of science is causing the most sacred city in Hinduism, Varanasi, to become a failed sacred city.The BBC reports that there is so much sewage flowing into the Ganges that it's hard for fish...
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SAIL India Gets National Sustainability Award for 2008 from IIM
Steel Authority of India Limited’s Salem Steel Plant has won the prestigious National Sustainability Award for 2008 from the Indian Institute of Metals.Mr Sanak Misra president of IIM gave the award to Mr Pankaj Gautam ED of SSP in Kolkata recently.
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‘Glacier Man’ Chewang Norphel Builds Artificial Glaciers
He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers.Over 70 percent of water...
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Solar Energy Levelized Costs Could Decrease by 50% During 2009
The cost of operating and building solar power plants has fallen this year, largely down to a big fall in the price of solar panels. According to New Energy Finance, the cost of electricity generated from solar energy is likely to fall by 50% during 2009 compared to the previous...
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Water Demand in India Set to Double by 2030, Says Study
India's water needs are set to double by 2030, which could dry up its river basins, according to new research released Tuesday that paints a grim picture for supplies across the emerging world.Global fresh water demand by 2030 will be 40 percent higher than current supplies and agriculture is predicted...
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SIAM, IOC in Hydrogen Blend CNG for Limiting Auto Pollution
SIAM and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) have hit upon an ideal blend of 18 per cent hydrogen with CNG in order to produce the least amount of NOx and give the highest power to vehicles. This hydrogen-blended CNG which is called HCNG is among the latest technology that is being...
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Greener Vehicles in India – New Fuel Norms for Auto Industry
Come 2011 and consumers can look forward to driving more environmentally cleaner cars as the government on Monday said it will soon notify new fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in the country."We are right now engaged in finalising administrative formalities on how these standards have to be notified either through...
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Energy Efficiency in India – Berkeley National Lab Collaboration
India may rank only a distant fourth in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, behind China, the United States and Russia, but its rapid economic growth rate coupled with aging and inefficient energy infrastructure suggest dire environmental consequences if "business as usual" continues. That's why experts from the Lawrence Berkeley National...
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Reva, Northern Lights Energy Partnership for NXR Electric Car to Iceland
Reva Electric Car Company and Northern Lights Energy signed a deal today to bring electric vehicles to Iceland. Reva, as regular readers will know, is the Indian EV company that was once best known for the G-Wiz, a quadricycle that Jeremy Clarkson did not like. In September, Reva revealed its...
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