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Was browsing through the EAI Club when I came across the profile of an interesting company E-Windz . This company provides “Total solutions for buying or selling of used wind turbines”. Its services are as follows: Identifying and selection of the prospective buyer/seller to get optimum value and conclude your...

“About one million green jobs will open up in India over next two years” read a recent news item from The Economic Times. A million is a lot of jobs, so I thought I’d dig up a bit on this domain, for two reasons: One, I am confident that unlike...

Well, I am not too much into corn (except when I dip my hands into the popping variety), but an article in The Economic Times on corn hybridsgiving much higher yields caught my attention, and for a reason: The biofuels industry is in the doldrums, and the main reason is...

Requests for selection (RfS) of solar projects under the National Solar Mission, coordinated by NVVN, has received an enthusiastic response from the prospective power developers. A senior official was quoted saying that as against a 150 MW of solar PV to be allocated (@ 5 MW per company), NVVN has...

I had the fortune to be present at the Solar 2010 Conference & Seminar held at Delhi Sep 21-22 @ Lalit Hotel. The event was organized by the Renewable Energy India Forum of IPFOnline. See here for the event homepage IPFonline, for many years, has been working closely with small...

Until a few years back, I was not much aware of the fact that there are a number of folks who were doing sterling work in India on the environment and ecology fronts. True, I had heard of the Medha Patkars and Vandana Shivas, but I naturally thought they were...

Read an article today in one of the business newspapers that the market for eco-friendly clothing in India is on the rise. From the current 1% of the total market of Rs. 32,000, it is expected to grow to 5% by 2015 – that’s almost 40% CAGR for the next...

Those of you who have been following the biofuels industry world over will know that ethanol derived from cellulosic sources are expected to be the future of ethanol. Unlike algae fuels, which are still very much in research stage, cellulosic ethanol is in late pilot stage and some consider it...

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) utilizes the energy potential created by temperature difference between sun-warmed surface water and colder parts at the bottom to generate electricity. OTEC uses this natural temperature gradient to drive a turbine, which is connected to a generator. It is desirable that the temperature difference between...

Read an article in the Economic Times where the author has essentially said that Locavorism (the habit of practising home-grown / local grown food) is a fad that deserves to be dismissed. I think not, and I left a response at the site which I am reproducing here as well....