by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 29, 2024 | Energy Efficiency, Net Zero by Narsi, Startups & Entrepreneurs
A car weighs over 1000 Kg but most times carries a human weighing less than 100 Kg. 90% of fuel – and emissions – are thus for transporting metal, plastic, and rubber. When I tell this to my friends and acquaintances, they are seriously surprised. Some of...
by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 29, 2024 | Coal, Corporate Leaders, Energy Efficiency, Government Officials, Net Zero by Narsi, Power
Almost a third of all CO2 emissions are from thermal power plants, and a significant portion of this from coal power plants. And like it or not, coal power plants will continue to run for many decades especially in countries such as India and China. Can something be...
by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 27, 2024 | Corporate Leaders, Financial Investors, Government Officials, Net Zero by Narsi
The UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell recently announced, in rather dramatic tones, that we have just 2 years to save the world from climate change. If you thought I was going to extend the melodrama, I’m happy to report that I harbour no such mala fide...
by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 25, 2024 | CO3, Financial Investors, Innovations, Net Zero by Narsi, Researchers, Startups & Entrepreneurs
CLIMAFIX, the division of EAI focussing on climate tech innovations, has been assisting Indian climate startups & innovators since 2022. CLIMAFIX also organizes the popular CLIMAFIX Summit along with Energy Consortium – IIT Madras. Recently, we launched a...
by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 21, 2024 | Corporate Leaders, Digital for Decarbonization, Net Zero by Narsi, Researchers, Startups & Entrepreneurs
𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 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: 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 167 𝘔𝘞 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳-𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘺𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰...
by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI | Apr 21, 2024 | Energy Storage, Green Hydrogen, Net Zero by Narsi, Researchers
(All my decarbonization posts here – 𝐍𝐞𝐭 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐢 – 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 really a tale of two...
