WISDOM TO BUILD
A COMPENDIUM OF LOCALLY EVOLVED MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SUSTAINABLE SELF-BUILT HOUSING
Straw in the wind
What does the decision to save groundwater in Punjab or Haryana have to do with air pollution in Delhi? Plenty. We need to know this because many actions have unintended and deadly consequences.
New business for new renewables
It was a trade exhibition abuzz with the restrained chatter of busy suited executives at company stalls making contacts and finalising deals. Nothing out of place except that this trade was about renewable energy technologies, which have unconventional reasons for growth. First, these technologies are seen as the most economical and feasible source of energy for millions of people unconnected to the electricity grid and having no electricity to light their houses or cook their food. This energy poverty is disabling and needs to be eradicated.
Rapid EIA for additional new facility ferro alloys & captive power plant, vill-Garhumaria, Raigarh
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Switch on biomass
Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar by Alok Gupta, Saran Until a year ago, T N Pandit, a pathologist in Bihar’s Saran district would juggle four different power supplies to keep his lab operational. The sources included inverter, generator, solar cell and state power grid. Voltage fluctuation had caused faults in his gadgets till he decided to install one more switch on his already overcrowded switchboard.