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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
India's Car Rush - Are We Driving Towards a Sustainability Crash?India’s Tata Motors promises the first batch of customers will be able to buy the Nano, its small car, for not much more than $2,000.Nissan, with its partner motorcycle manufacturer Bajaj, may even beat that.In any case, the price of...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
A company in India has found an innovative solution to plastic garbage.Ahmed Khan’s company in Bangalore, is trying to use recycled plastic to solve two of India’s biggest problems – crumbling roads and overflowing landfills.So far, Mr. Khan’s company has built more than 745 miles of road using 3500 tons...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
The interactive dustbin developed by the six IIT-Bombay students will not only approach people and tell them to put trash into it, but it is also programmed to say 'thank you' when they oblige. The device has three sensors programmed to detect the nearest person, align the wheels towards him/her...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
Even though Rolls Royce cars are being sold in their dozens to Indian billionaires, the lack of science is causing the most sacred city in Hinduism, Varanasi, to become a failed sacred city.The BBC reports that there is so much sewage flowing into the Ganges that it's hard for fish...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
Steel Authority of India Limited’s Salem Steel Plant has won the prestigious National Sustainability Award for 2008 from the Indian Institute of Metals.Mr Sanak Misra president of IIM gave the award to Mr Pankaj Gautam ED of SSP in Kolkata recently.
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers.Over 70 percent of water...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
The cost of operating and building solar power plants has fallen this year, largely down to a big fall in the price of solar panels. According to New Energy Finance, the cost of electricity generated from solar energy is likely to fall by 50% during 2009 compared to the previous...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
India's water needs are set to double by 2030, which could dry up its river basins, according to new research released Tuesday that paints a grim picture for supplies across the emerging world.Global fresh water demand by 2030 will be 40 percent higher than current supplies and agriculture is predicted...
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November 24, 2009 by Team EAI
SIAM and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) have hit upon an ideal blend of 18 per cent hydrogen with CNG in order to produce the least amount of NOx and give the highest power to vehicles. This hydrogen-blended CNG which is called HCNG is among the latest technology that is being...
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