April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
I woke up seriously late today – 10 am. The result of reading a book while running high-temperature last night. Must have been an unputdownable murder mystery. Unputdownable, yes. But eerily, it was a book on ???????? – my few remaining friends are gonna disown me. Since the time I...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
? ??????? ??? ?????? ???? In the last month alone, at our climate tech consulting division (EAI), I have been approached by CEOs of about 10 mid-sized Indian firms (Rs 1000-3000 crores annual revenues, industries ranging from textiles to food to auto), seeking my suggestions on investing in ?????? ?????????????...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
?????? ??????? ?????? ??? ??????? ?????? ??? ????????? – ?? ???? ???? ? ??? ???????? Meeting CEOs to discuss climate action is fun – if you are prepared in terms of knowledge of the subject, and in terms of “perspective”. What do I mean by the latter word – “perspective”...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
? ???? ?? ?????? ???? From seemingly nowhere, green hydrogen seems to be everywhere in the climate discussion. Some experts even think that the world cannot go to Net Zero without green hydrogen and carbon capture. That may well be true, but the important question for many Indian CEOs &...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
I know the title is suggestive of a click-bait post, but do read on, won’t you? This post is a result of some of my business acquaintances giving me miffed calls yesterday after I called green hydrogen hot air. ( https://lnkd.in/gbt5VdGh ) Quite a few of these folks complained that...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
???? ??? ??? ??????? ???? ?? ???? ???? ??????????? ??? I had been posting last couple of days on the characteristics and challenges with the emerging green hydrogen economy, with an India focus. (See also: https://lnkd.in/gB_-tvDb & https://lnkd.in/gbt5VdGh for posts on GH2; also, all my decarbonization posts at ??? ????...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
?????? ?? ?? ???????? ?? ???? ??? ?????-?????? ??? ?????? (See all my decarbonization posts – Net Zero by Narsi – from here – https://lnkd.in/gjrf59dk ) I have been working in climate tech for 15 years, and my work has touched almost every prominent energy/fuel domain. Across all these, the...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
????? ??????? ???? ??? ?????????? I had an intern (Nikita A ) experiment with this idea: Take a useful data point from a recent news item around India’s decarbonization and Net Zero journey (Eg: ????????? ????? ???????? 167 ?? ?????-???? ?????? ????? ?? ????? ?????’? ????? ???? ?????), set an...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
(All my decarbonization posts here – ??? ???? ?? ????? – https://lnkd.in/g84YZXWt ) During my first ten years of my work in climate tech, revolving mostly around solar, biomass and biofuels, most discussions were about energy efficiency, yield, costs…energy density was hardly a debate topic. Since the growth of EVs...
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April 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
(All my decarbonization posts here – ??? ???? ?? ????? – https://lnkd.in/g84YZXWt ) In an earlier post ( https://lnkd.in/g6UtxXHG ), we saw how hydrogen has an absorbing story in its energy density. It’s a tale of two densities – very high gravimetric density, and extremely low volumetric density. What are...
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