Month: December 2010

Check out, what we humans have done to our Home!!

Las Vegas is a city that shouldn’t be — but somehow is. The desert metropolis of nearly 2 million people survives thanks only to the intricate system of irrigation and reservoirs that tap the flow of the Colorado River. Much of the water is kept in the artificial Lake Mead, 30 miles south of Las Vegas. But Lake Mead could be slowly drying up. The region is in the grips of a back-breaking 11-year drought, and in October the reservoir fell to its lowest level since it was filled nearly…

Orlando, Florida, USA — This year’s Power Engineering Projects of the Year Award winners and honorable mentions represented facilities and/or technology that signified excellence in four categories: coal-fired, gas-fired, nuclear and renewable/sustainable. Best Renewable/Sustainable Projects Tekeze Hydropower Project The Tekeze Hydropower project in Ethiopia, located on the Tekeze River, a tributary of the Nile, is the Project of the Year for renewable/sustainable projects. The $350 million project, funded by the government of Ethiopia and owned byEthiopian Electric Power Corp adds 40 percent more electric capacity to the country and was…

If 2010 was a bad year for environmentalists, it was a really bad year for climate scientists. Just a couple of months after the Climategate controversy broke — featuring thousands of hacked emails that reflected badly, to say the least, on the climate scientists who wrote them — critics showed that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had made several mistakes in its most recent assessment on climate science. The worst error — or at least the most embarrassing — was a the panel’s claim that warming could…

CHANDIGARH: Haryana has been awarded the first National Award in the best states category for its excellent performance in the Energy Conservation Programmes for the year 2010 by the Government of India. With this award, Haryana has become the only State in the country to have bagged the National Award for Energy Conservation for three consecutive years. The award was received by B.S. Yadav, Additional Director, Renewable Energy Department Haryana and HAREDA from Union Power Minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde at the National Energy Conservation Day function organized by the…

Littering causes serious ill effects on the atmosphere. They add up to become pollutants and causes adverse impact on the atmosphere. They also cause serious illness to animals when they consume poisonous things on the ground!