NEW INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Ghost Nets to Sports Net Animal Warriors Conservation Society, supported by HCL Foundation, has taken up the initiative to mitigate the problem of Ghost Nets by collecting ghost nets and upcycling them to something useful that communities can use. Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded in the ocean. […]

Benefits of Clean cooking stove Improved cooking stoves offer a variety of benefits, both for the health of the planet and the health of people. The use of cleaner and more efficient improved cooking stoves and fuels can dramatically reduce exposure to smoke from traditional stoves and can contribute to mitigating the risk of climate

Championing Clean Cooking Options CARE India has initiated a project on clean cooking solutions with support from the HCL Foundation in Noida in order to tackle the rising levels of indoor pollution in Indian kitchens. Till now, Care India’s project has contributed to the successful adoption of improved cooking stoves by 703 slum/village dwellers households

Food vs Fuel Since First Generation biofuels use food items to produce fuel, they pose a threat to overall food security and food prices. Since 2019, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index has increased by 58 per cent to an all-time high, while prices of wheat and maize have doubled. Further, according

Ethanol – A Viable Alternative India got a 2G ethanol plant at Indian Oil Corporation’s Panipatrefnery in Haryana on the occasion of World Biofuel Day 2022 i.e August 10. The overall objective is to cut air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region caused by stubble burning in Haryana. It aims to utilise about 2 lakh tonnes

Fuel from Organic Matter Biofuel is an umbrella term that defines any fuel made from organic matter such as plant matter, microorganisms, or animal waste. Biofuels are divided into three categories depending on their origin and production technologies. 1) First Generation (1G) are conventional biofuels and are made up of consumable food items that contain

Cloud Seeding & Artificial Rain Imagine saying “with proper scientific techniques, we can increase the quantity of rainfall” to humans from the medieval era. They would have gone berserk! But to the modern human, this comes as no surprise. Yes, we are talking of cloud seeding and artificial rain. How did we reach here? Let’s

Cycling Infrastructure – a welcome step The government in Delhi is working towards improving the cycling culture and infrastructure as it will revamp 540km of city roads with cycling lanes under its new cycle sharing project. Also, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is establishing 16-km exclusive cycling lanes in Dwarka. In another new project for

    Do Electric Vehicles really provide a solution? Electric Vehicles or EVs run on rechargeable electric batteries and use an electric motor instead of a conventional combustion engine. These vehicles can be charged anywhere with a stable electricity supply. The last ten years have seen a big jump in the popularity and demand for

    Do solutions lie in a Circular Economy? What exactly is a Circular Economy? To know this first we have to understand the concept of ‘Linear Economy’. Think of the linear economy as a process wherein the first step is to buy raw materials for commodity production, the next step is to produce the