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November 23, 2016 by Team EAI
If you had been reading about solar power plants, you would have surely encountered the debate going on in the context of inverters: Which inverter is better for large solar farms? String or central? Now, I have been asked this question numerous times in the past 2 years by many folks...
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November 23, 2016 by Team EAI
What has the Internet of Things (IoT) got to do with solar? A lot, apparently! This blog post from Solar Mango on the use of IoT for solar power plants says: " IoT-based solar monitoring platforms provide excellent performance analytics through provisions for the following: Calculation of performance parameters like Performance...
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November 23, 2016 by Team EAI
Looking at solar panels on rooftops used to be my day job for a while. Now, I have to admit that I never viewed those rooftop solar panels as beautiful during that time. Because, well, they were not. Solar panels on rooftops looked ok at best, and in many circumstances,...
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November 21, 2016 by Team EAI
A recent article on a fire break-out incident in a commercial complex at Anna Salai, Chennai – once again brought into our attention the risks that Air Conditioners pose in our households, offices and commercial buildings - if no safety measures are adopted. As per the statistics from the...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
Can we make plastics out of plants? Of course yes! That is indeed what the domain of bioplastics is all about. Bioplastics is a long and fascinating topic. Here are the nice folks at the Cleantech Guide providing a concise overview of bioplastics and its applications. Also check out: EAI...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
One way to reduce plastic pollution is to replace it/substitute it with an equivalent alternative that do not pose the same environmental threats as does plastic. Is there such a substitute available? Well, bioplastics is a contender to the throne. But how good a substitute is bioplastics to conventional plastics?...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
Like you can burn coal or wood to generate / recover energy, so can you by burning plastics. Now, that's an interesting method to get rid of waste plastic that are polluting the earth, and at the same time also getting some useful energy from them, isn't it? Well, the...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
Everyone wishes to decrease the amount of pollution from plastic. And this everyone includes the ordinary you and me, corporates, municipalities and more. But the more they try, like the hydra, the more avenues appear through which the plastics pollute even more than before. So, we have to get more...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
Have you ever asked yourself this interesting question - how did we live before plastics were invented? I mean, how could we have lived without plastics? The folks at the Cleantech Guide have taken up this question and provided a detailed answer here on how humans could have ever lived...
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November 18, 2016 by Team EAI
While on plastic pollution and its remediation through recycling, one question many folks have is whether it is possible to recycle all types of plastics. The answer is No, but there are multiple reasons for the infeasibility. Here's a detailed post on the Cleantech Guide that provides insights on these...
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