MOTHER PLANET-SOURCE OF ENERGY

If we utilize the whole Energy that was created in a single day in our Planet naturally, then we can power the whole world for 27 years.

                        Considering this the whole world try to utilize this energy. Using Wind, Solar, Tidal & other non-conventional source.

                         However, India only utilizes 4-6% of its non-conventional energy. We as Indian have to do lots of work. If Government of India does not act immediately on this, it will effect our environment as well as our growing economy.

PRECISION FARMING

In India, the soil rather than crop is irrigated. As a result, 70 per cent of the water is wasted, say’s Aloke Adholeya, Director of The Energy Research Institute’s (TERI) Biotechnology & Bioresources Division. Precision farming, however, relies on drip irrigation. “With drips, we just wet the soil near the roots. How much water use is determined by the climate, soil type, crop type & age. The drip system is also used to “fertigate” the crop-disseminate soluble fertilizer-& the extent of fertilizer used depends on the soil’s need.

                               

                                   SOURCE: N.MADHAVAN IN BUSINESS TODAY  

LIGHTING UP

In 1994, nearly half a century after India independence, Mullaria village in Kerala’s Kasargod district still had no access to electricity. In this, it was no different from two thirds of India. Kerosene lanterns lit most homes in the village, darkening walls & blackening lungs. But Mullaria would usher in a quite revolution, thanks to Handattu Harish Hande. An alumnus of IIT-Kharagapur, & PhD in energy engineering from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell). Hande has devised a solar lighting system.

                         It was a visit to the Dominican Republic in 1991, & specifically his exposure to the work of Richard Hansen, which showed Hande how solar energy could transform the lives of the poor. While working on his doctorate, he traveled to the tiny Caribbean nation & saw for himself how Hansen, an American engineer who shifted there in 1984, had used solar energy to provide electricity to thousands of poor Dominicans. Hande decided to do something similar in this own country.

                 (BY-K.R.BALASUBRAMANYAN in Business Today)