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Policy makers have understood the importance of producing energy, but have been much slower to promote measures for energy efficiency. This has to change, writes Girish Sant.
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Biogas plants are not a new concept to our rural sector, but their big size, installation cost, need for large quantities of cattle dung, and space restriction prove a deterrent for those opting to install them. But Shakthi-Surabhi, a kitchen waste based biogas plant developed by the Vivekananda Kendra, Natural Resources Development Project (Vknardep), Kanyakumari, after nearly quarter century of experiments promises to change all that
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In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot. In remote villages of this mountainous and energy-starved country people are demanding their right to electricity. They say electricity is a national good; everyone must have a right to it...
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Potential of Renewables in India for Climate Change Mitigation – Role of IREDA
This presentation is from the " Post Conference Climate Change India 2008",22-23 April 2008,Le Meridien,Pune India.
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Towards a Sustainable World of Materials: Issues and Options Industry and civil society must not look at each other as adversaries , but partners • Focus must shift from only looking at energy use during manufacturing or production to the energy use during the entire lifecycle of the product, from cradle to grave • Judicious choice of materials to meet the needs of mankind |
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Energy Conservation - A key factor to productivity. The potential for energy conservation is around 25% in Indian Industries an 23% for whole Indian economy Conservation is the quickest, cheapest and most practicable method of increasing the productivity.
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Solar Mission: More light needed The government's focus on solar energy is driven by the need to demonstrate a commitment to renewable energy. But equity too is vital for the success of the National Solar Mission.
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Using energy more efficiently can reduce our energy needs by 20 per cent; it is a strategy we must pursue even as we promote renewables. |
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ON A RECENT congressional delegation to Hong Kong, I toured a factory that is developing a thin solar cell that can be put on windows to generate electricity from the sun with zero carbon emissions. I thought of 1366 Technologies, a company in Lexington that is also racing to get advanced solar technologies to market. It may seem like your typical competition between two companies, but this race is about much more than the solar market. It is about the race for trillions of dollars in clean-energy investments. As President Obama says, "the nation that leads in 21st-century clean energy is the nation that will lead the 21st-century global economy." And if we win the race, it could bring 150,000 new jobs and billions of dollars to Massachusetts.
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Oregonians Seek Personal Energy Revolution Meet the Hager family of Eugene, Oregon. Tom Hager, at left, sent a note (below) about his family’s effort to shrink its per-capita energy footprint by 80 percent. This would put the family in line with the Swiss project called the “2,000 Watt Society” — which was nicely explained by Jamais Cascio in 2005. The project’s goals are reflected in something that Princeton’s Robert Socolow said at the “America’s Climate Choices” summit at the National Academies last week (as quoted by Bill Chameides of Duke University on his blog, theGreenGrok.com, and Huffingtonpost.com): “The emissions of the future rich must eventually equal the emissions of today’s poor.”
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