Offshore Wind Energy, better than onshore wind in terms of efficiency that is becoming competitive and comparable in terms of tariffs at the global level, could be available in India by 2022 with at least 5 GW of offshore wind capacity, as of National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), has initiated on April 11, 2018 the process installing a 1000 MW offshore wind energy project in Gulf of ...
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India’s First Underwater Twin Tunnels a Crucial Link for East-West Corridor of Kolkata Metro
India’s first underwater tunnel, built 30 metre below the riverbed underneath Hooghly River, a crucial link for East-West Corridor of Kolkatta Metro to connect the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata located on either side of the Hooghly, has been completed as tunnel-boring machine punched through the diaphragm of the proposed Metro station at Esplanade in Kolkata and came out on ...
High Quality Fuel with Less Pollution from Plastic Waste
Plastic Derived Oil (PDO), having characteristics similar to Diesel, has been derived on successfully converting Packaging Plastic Waste by Pankaj Tiwari and Pallab Das Researchers from IIT Guwahati, Department of Chemical Engineering. They hope to create ideal operating conditions to provide high-quality oil with less pollution that could soon help fuel cars. Researchers collec...
New tools or applications that can help improve our workflow
‘Digital’ is the buzzword today. Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data. Digital technology is primarily used with new physical communications media, such as satellite and fiber optic transmission. But it is also affecting, influencing and shaping human life by providing many tools that can help the work -flow become more efficient and hassle-free at our office and ...
SpaceX Launched ‘Falcon Heavy’ Carrying Tesla Roadster Car
World’s most powerful rocket ‘Falcon Heavy’ carrying a special payload: a red coloured Tesla Roadster and a mannequin named ‘Starman’ - the spacesuit-wearing driver, was successfully launched in its maiden test flight at 8.45PM GMT on Tuesday February 6, 2018 by SpaceX of which Elon Musk is CEO and founder. The launch took place from the same landing pads where NASA’s Apollo moo...
Benefits of Social Media for Students
Though it has been blamed that social media platforms have become distracting tools for students, as they are not able to pay full attention and do justice to their studies, once they get addicted to these technology platforms. Instead of becoming repository of information they get through school education, they are more occupied with superfluous knowledge offered by social media. However, on close observation i...
GOES-S the Most Advanced Weather Satellites Launched
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V Rocket at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) i.e. 17:02 Eastern Time (22:02 UTC) on Thursday, March 1, 2018 and deployed an advanced weather satellite for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA).
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Food Processing Industry: Scope and Challenges
In original form, an agriculture product is not suitable for consumption and hence it is necessary for a particular agriculture product to be processed for final consumption. Thus, an agriculture product goes through various stages , in fact a chain of value additions, right from the cultivator who produces it to the wholesaler and then to the retailer and finally ending its journey wi...
Stephen Hawking had a Razor-Sharp Mind Inside the Shell of his Increasingly Useless Body
Stephen Hawking, famed for his work on black holes and relativity, was Britain’s most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, became disabled at 21 – in 1963 diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - an incurable motor neurone disease, and was given two years to live. He survived this t...
iCreate to Nurture Entrepreneurs: Provide Finance, Mentors & Technology
iCreate, International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology, located at Deo Dholera village, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on 17 January 2018. The venture has been started to promote and nurture entrepreneurs by providing them finance, mentors and technology.
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