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Innovative use of solar energy for cold chains EAI INCLINE innovation showcase Sunlight may be hot, but it can be used to produce cold. Cold storage chains can make a big difference to farmers by reducing wastage of agri produce. Inficold, through the innovative use of solar power for distribute...

Solar glass by Renkube EAI INCLINE innovation showcase Renkube’s solar glass is an excellent combination of software and optics. By using a glass controlled by software to increase the amount of light falling on solar panels – especially during low light periods – Renkube’s product attempts to increase the yields...

Happy to launch EAI’s India Cleantech Innovation Excellence division – EAI INCLINE At EAI, we have been keen on doing our bit to make India a global leader in cleantech and sustainability solutions. One way is to have a super strong focus on innovation. Our discussions and brainstorming last few...

Climate change for idiots Some years back, in my messianic zeal to educate the world on climate change and global warming, I put together a detailed series of posts on the topic, and called it Climate Change for Idiots – I have always used kind words. Perhaps I was being...

 Cow urine as pesticide Lately, I had been doing a good amount of research on bio-pesticides for cotton, as part of a project we are doing on sustainable textiles. Researching on high-tech batteries for electric cars in the morning to digging up on stuff like cow urine in the afternoon...

Is Silicon Valley becoming the Cleantech Valley too? About 7 years back, just back from a trip to SFO, I wrote a blog post (https://lnkd.in/eYQ_5xF ) on how perhaps some region in the world should create a powerful cleantech ecosystem by modelling it on Silicon Valley, with proximity of diverse...

Bio-scope About 15 years back, my mother planted a sapling of the parijaatam plant (night flowering jasmine) on a small patch of land in front of our house because it was just bare. I don’t recall us doing much more with it. When I gave that space a closer look...

300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy After reading this CNN news item ( https://lnkd.in/d3iXTqX ) over an hour ago, I’m still trying to get a feel for it and failing – it appears so overwhelmingly huge. 300 million planets in our galaxy alone could support life in theory,...

Can – and should – Lifebuoy make me take shorter showers? Unilever targets to make its customers sustainable too. Would that be possible? And wouldn’t it hurt its sales? https://lnkd.in/gkF-aAW See my LinkedIn post on this topic

You are so incredibly fascinating If someone had said that a book on neuroscience would turn out to be an unputdownable page turner for me, I would have ROFL. But that’s precisely what happened with the book “The Brain” by David Eagleman. If I’m allowed to recommend only one book...