Electric Auto Spotted in Bangladesh

Electric vehicles are making inroads but are very expensive, this Jugaad, in Bangladesh was spotted by Shawn

Here is the Video

Can Electric Vehicles be a Commercial Reality - Another Ted Talk

Whenever I have spoken about / written about Electric Vehicles, or anything Electric Powered, people have looked at me and wondered, why am I so crazy about alternative fuels, and why I have a strong belief that the world will run on Solar Powered Electricity in the future, that seems to be the only way to reduce our carbon footprint.

Anyway, while my usual browsing through TED, I came across the above talk by Shai Agassi, who has just recenlty setup a company called Better Place, and if you are thinking, or if you don't believe the world is changing, and we will now soon be running Electric Cars, you must see this presentation.

More Later, till I think, how can I send this to Mr. Ratan Tata ?

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LG's Sky Charger at CES 2009

We all have to do a bit for the nature. This is something I would have loved to implement on our rooftop, but LG Beat me to it. Seen at the CES 2009, this is the LG Skycharger, It stores energy using the Wind and Sun into batteries, that in turn helped the visitors charge their mobile phones and cameras, laptops.

Brilliant, I must say.

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Eco Friendly Street Lights by Sharp

Japan is the place to be for technology innovation, sadly they speak another language that I don't understand, I tried, but I don't. Go Green seems to be on every body's mind, look at ICICI bank on how they are selling their e-statement feature, but this news on Akhiabara News, caught my eye.

The LN-LS2A1 produce 1800 lumens and can go running for upto 48 hours, in case of an earthquake (yes they have a built in sensor).

To read more, click here

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World's Biggest Solar Farm Planned

This blurb on Reuters caught my attention, and I thought this was worth the mention.. Just some pointers

*80-megawatt farm
*640 acres / 260 hectares
*To be completed by 2011
*17 times the size of the largest U.S. solar farm
*Near Fresno, California.

Read more at Reuters

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Wifi + Solar Power - Great Use - Tracking Turtles

A few months back a program on the National Geographic Channel about the Red Panda's going missing, and scientists still using radio tags to catch them, put me into thinking, on why they were stil not using Wi-Fi technology. Well, my answer was not far off, today's posting on Tree Hugger, about MIT Scientists (who else), putting solar powered wi-fi devices on the back of turtles, to track there whereabouts, and also to study the behaviour of a diminishing population, had me sit up and read.

A very interesting reading, click here, to read the full article.

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India Going Green

Solar Energy, Energy Saving have been a part and practice of my study, and some of my approach. I would love to turn around the whole house / office to run using Solar Power, but sadly the price of Solar Panels still keeps this out of my reach.

Recently, while going through the Times of India, on the 5th of June, I came across an Article about Green buildings, and it was an interesting read. Sadly the online edition does not carry pictures, but here are a few steps that you can make sure to go green.

1. Switch off all appliances not in use when leaving office at night. Yes, including the Water Cooler
2. Make sure all lights and fans are also off
3. Switch to CFL Lamps where ever possible from Incandescent Bulbs
4. Take that Adapter out, are you done charging your phone, take out that adapter.
5. Harvest Water, Re-Use rain water. Delhi is going to get a lot of rain this year, why not put buckets outside, when it rains, to give your car an After rain wash / clean.
6. Buy Proximity / Infrared switches for Verandah lights
7. Buy some solar lights for your lawn.

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Solar Power - Yes It's working

About an Year back I was seriouslly contemplating getting into Solar Power Production, and while reading up on it, I found that the only possible way of doing solar power production on a full day basis would be to have a tower with solar panels all around it, something like a cylindrical tower, but this idea found on BBC is great.

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