-The Hindu Business Line There's no Malthusian problem right now, but without sustainable farming the world will be in serious trouble Food security, a seemingly innocuous phrase, is fast becoming one of the most widely discussed topics of our time. A lot of us would associate ‘food security' as a challenge for the impoverished but it could potentially become a much more widespread problem straddling across geographic and economic divides. The issue of...
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At 750MW, Madhya Pradesh to get world’s largest solar power plant -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Next year on Independence Day, India will have the world's largest 750MW solar power plant in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, which will pip America's much-vaunted 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in California, commissioned four days ago. Acquisition of 1,500 hectares of land for the Rs 4000 crore project is close to completion and government agencies are likely to invite tenders from developers by April. The state...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: India's plans to expand solar Energy 30-fold to 100,000MW in seven years could create more than a million new jobs but demand chunks of land cumulatively larger than the metro areas of Calcutta or Delhi, an environment think-tank has said. An analysis by the Delhi-based Council on Energy Environment and Water has suggested that the plan to raise installed solar Energy capacity from the current 3,000MW to 100,000MW...
More »India’s tough renewable Energy targets -Athar Parvaiz
-SciDev.net India plans to produce 160,000 megawatts of renewable Energy by 2022 Financing, land-acquisition and proper policies are among challenges to the plans Government confident of financing by World Bank and multilateral agencies NEW DELHI: Financing, land-acquisition and lack of proper policies are among challenges to India's ambitious renewable Energy projects, the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) run by The Energy and...
More »Jharkhand’s 14-year-old Nishu develops special cooler, receives invite from Japan
-Daily Bhaskar Ranchi: Nishu Kumari is just 14-year-old, but her scientific acumen is on par with mature scientists. In one such example, the girl who lives in a slum of Adityapur, Bantanagar she has received an invite from Japan for a cooler developed by her that uses wind as a source of Energy. She will be sponsored by the Science and Technology department for Sakura Exchange program that is to be...
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