by admin | Oct 17, 2014 | Waste Management, Waste to Energy
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...
by admin | Oct 19, 2012 | Society and Community, Waste to Energy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for research and development partners – from academia or industry for a grant program which aims to develop new ways to process human waste for urban areas – “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” – Click here for more...
by admin | Sep 17, 2012 | Biogas, Biomass Power, Bottom of Pyramid, Renewable Energy Communities, Rural Sector, Waste to Energy
=========================================== Are you looking to get energy security for your company through reduction in the use of diesel, furnace oil, LPG and costly grid power? EAI can do a feasibility study for the use of solar PV & thermal, biomass for heat...
by admin | Sep 16, 2012 | Biofuels, Diesel, Innovations, Petrol, Waste to Energy
I used to do some work in the biomass power and biofuels sectors early on. Had also the opportunity to work on an exciting area called third generation biofuels, specifically algae biofuels. Along the way, learnt how you can actually make pretty much any hydrocarbon...
by admin | Aug 24, 2012 | Society and Community, Transportation, Waste to Energy
At long last, I get to read something really interesting the Indian public sector is doing – sustainable treatment of human waste, and that too on our Indian Railways. We all know what happens to the millions of tons of human waste we generate while on trains,...
by admin | Aug 12, 2012 | Biogas, Cities, MSW, Schools, Waste to Energy
This is some excellent stuff. Sree Moola Vilasom (SMV) Government Model Higher Secondary School is one of the oldest schools in Thiruvananthapuram city. Established by Swathi Thirunal Maharaja of the Travancore Kingdom in 1836, today this school is imparting education...