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Organization that I belong to: Durham University

Current Job title/ Field of Study (if you are a student): PhD Researcher

Educational Institution Last Attended/ Attending: Durham University

Personal Website: http://www.ideatingenergy.com/

Area of Expertize/ interest: Micro-generation

Membership Category Requested: Environment Professionals of Indian Origin

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Was there a grid breakdown?

Posted on August 3, 2012 at 12:12am 4 Comments 0 Likes

I hear that on the 30th and 31st of July, the world woke up to the news of the biggest blackout in history, the great Indian blackout. First chaos and then darkness engulfed most of north India (well, darkness yes but not chaos really).

As I got from the new papers the next morning (yes, I didn't know of the big black out until the next morning), 3 grids (the northern, the eastern and the northeastern) broke down resulting in collapse…

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Return of the shirtless

Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:37am 0 Comments 0 Likes

No, this post is not about the Bollywood film star Salman Khan or his new movie "Ek tha Tiger" (There was a Tiger). Although, the caption would be befitting for Salman considering that he is a…

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Have you heard of Husk Power

Posted on July 9, 2012 at 10:21am 6 Comments 3 Likes

"tamso ma jyotirgamayam", meaning "from darkness, take me to light". This is the Sanskrit script in the lower left corner of the picture above. This is the tag line, the punch line of Husk Power Systems.

As per husk power system's website,

"We are world leaders in decentralised generation and distribution of electric power.

Husk Power Systems (“HPS”) lighted the first village from its first 100% biomass based power…

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Energy and protest politics: insiders and outsiders

Posted on June 8, 2012 at 5:49am 0 Comments 1 Like

Continuing the discussion on the politics of protest from the last week's post on the rise in petrol prices in India, this time we take a look at the actors who are not a part of the central government regime. so, while last week we talked about the protest politics of the regime participants or the coalition partners, this time we take a look at the opposition.…

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