Category: Science
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Signs You Need to Replace the Front Door
If you are a homeowner, then taking care of the entry door of your house is among crucial home maintenance things that you should not overlook at any cost. The front door is there to protect you against robbers and bad weather. It keeps unwanted things outside the house and bears harsh weather conditions all…
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Agricultural Waste Management
Agricultural wastes are the excesses and the residues generated from diverse agricultural activities such as farm operation, planting and harvesting of field crops, food processing, dairy and animal husbandry. The wastes are available in the form of wheat straw, paddy animals waste. Intensive cropping, use of high analysis fertilisers and improved management practices have not…
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Surviving the West, Something to Learn
For a place where summer temperatures have always averaged to a good 49 Celsius degrees and winters dropped below zero, a regular flat roofed, brick wall house wasn’t going to do the trick. In the Rann of Kutch, to live was not their aim. Aim was to survive. And how did they do that? No,…
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Biomass Energy: Reviving the traditional sources through Modern Technology
Traditionally, the biomass, specially fuel wood has been used as an important source of energy since pre-historic days. Biomass is an organic substance, living or dead that has potential biochemical energy stored in its bonds and interior. This is a form of renewable solar energy stored in all plant materials everyday in the process of…
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ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE ENERGY PROBLEM
In addressing and considering issues related to energy and environment from the perspective of development economics, it is very difficult to anyone to remain objective. Energy and environmental issues have, perhaps more than any other recent economic topic, stretched the computational and analytical capacities of economist. In this article, I introduce the economic dimensions of…
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ENERGY POLICY
In recent years, both developed and developing countries have become increasingly concerned about managing economic growth without depriving future generations of a sound base of natural resources and a healthy environment. It is clear that sustainable development depends upon the implementation of energy policies which incorporate environmental needs while at the same time providing for…
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Earthquake – a shaky killer.
The Earth became a hospital place after thousands of years of geological and biological processes. The Earth underwent a rigorous and continuous process of formation and destruction to become what it is today. The land was formed by powerful movements of the tectonic plates. These are the land masses which are continuously in motion deep…
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Desertification
Human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, poor soil conservation, etc. have led to the transformation of regions with initially fertile land into desert-like areas i.e. become barren and infertile. This process, known as desertification, occurs most commonly in arid and semi-arid regions which already have high temperatures, low rainfall, and sub-humid climate. Although the presence…
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Green Car- Car powered by air
We all know of cars that run on gas and petrol and even lately batteries but guess what, off late the Indian car maker Tata Motors is contemplating the idea of bringing to market a car that runs on air. Yes you heard it right, simple air present around you and me. A car powered…
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Soil Pollution – Another Raising Concern
The term pollution is defined as the emission of unwanted materials into the atmosphere, which can cause or affect the well being of the eco-system. Pollution is the main reason we are trying to espouse green living. Pollution can be differentiated into many categories and each kind of pollution has its own effect on the…