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Want lower heating bills? Redistribute hot air from above using these innovative fans
One of the big inefficiencies in most home heating systems comes from the natural tendency of warm air to rise, which leads to hot ceilings and cool floors and frequent on-and-off cycling of the systems. So why not ensure that the hot air that goes up gets recirculated downwards once...
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Printable Solar Cells not Far Away? At least CSIRO, Australia Thinks So
Read an interesting article on solar ink that can assist in printable solar cells. Australian researchers have created ‘solar ink’, which can capture sunlight and turn it into electricity, that can be printed on some materials and can used to charge smartphones and laptops. The solar cells can be printed onto...
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How rainforest destruction hides in our clothes
09/14/2014 admin Uncategorized Comments off 2 Rayon is an extremely popular fabric, and is used by most major clothing brands. It’s made by a complex chemical process, but at the beginning it starts with wood chips, which are turned into a product called dissolving pulp. Like all products that come...
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25 Interesting Cleantech News from 2014
I had been updating a blog I run on cleantech innovations, the Cleantech Gallery, for the past 8 months. Thought it is a nice time of the year to present some of the really interesting/innovative ideas in cleantech I had included in that, in 2014. Here we go. I have...
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The XPrize Comes to India – Start working on your dreams
Imagine you are a nobody like me. Now imagine that you are sitting right behind Ratan Tata. Yes, THE Tata. He is sitting right in front of you for not just a few flickering minutes, but for 3 full hours. For a change, he is not in high level consultations with top honchos. In...
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Will RPO finally be enforced in India?
Yet again, we have heard about the government's seriousness about RPO (renewable purchase obligation). The only difference is that, this time it is by the NDA government. Now, why would we take this any more seriously than all of the earlier attempts? Optimists point to the following: 1. To enforce RPO,...
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Suncyclopedia, the Solar Encyclopedia – Solar Made Simple – by EAI
EAI has launched Suncyclopedia, the Solar Encyclopedia . This is a unique web resource that introduces solar energy in a simple and easy-to-understand manner to all those who wish to understand solar better. While there are a number of web resources available that explain solar energy, most of these are...
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Flying Toilets to Clean Energy – a Kenyan Biogas Experiment
An interesting news report in The Hindu on a Kenyan effort to manage human waste, "Turning Human Waste into Clean Energy", got me down recent memory lane. Two years back, my team had helped out the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in their efforts on finding solutions to fecal waste in India. Putting jargons aside,...
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Rooftop Solar for Colleges – A tour of worldwide installations
Colleges (and to a certain extent schools) are likely to be some of the earliest adopters of solar power from their premises. There are three reasons for this: 1. Most colleges are running during the same hours as the sun is up and running. Thus, the need for storage (batteries) is reduced...
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Rooftop Solar Panels on Schools – A tour of worldwide installations
Schools are great places for solar. Not only do they provide many schools a nice, alternative way to generate power. Most schools have that ideallic streak in them - what better time to teach folks to be idealistic than when they are, well, not yet folks. Indian schools are just warming to...
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