Tag Wise Current Affairs
Tag: Energy
CO2 for first time converted into coal at room temperature
Tags: Energy
Published on: 28 February 2019
2 Units of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station inaugurated
Tags: Energy
Published on: 01 July 2019
‘Core catcher’ installed in Kudankulam nuclear power plant
Tags: Energy
Published on: 25 December 2019
Purple bacteria may help in harvesting green fuel from wastewater
Tags: Energy
Published on: 23 April 2020
Scientists to make use of AI to solve nuclear fusion problem
Tags: Energy
Published on: 29 April 2020
Proposal to pool solar tariffs and bundle renewable energy
Tags: Energy
Published on: 09 February 2022
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Both countries are enhancing and exploring cooperative ventures in the area of nuclear power and its societal uses in the fields of health, agriculture, industrial application, training and capacity building.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Argentina has expertise in building small-capacity nuclear reactors and was looking to work with India in some third country in tripartite projects.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Argentine company INVAP is already working on Fission Molly Project to build molybdenum plant in Mumbai, Maharashtra. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">This project envisages setting up plant for creating isotopes. Argentina also manufactures some components used in Indian power reactors. </span></span></span></li>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Scientists from Dehradun-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) have successfully finished pilot test to convert used cooking oil into bio-aviation turbine fuel (Bio-ATF). This bio-ATF derived from edible oil can be blended with conventional ATF and used as aircraft fuel. It is yet to be tested on flight. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Key Facts</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Bio-ATF production is possible from used cooking oil as the chemical composition of used cooking oil is identical to other plant-based oils that have been converted to Bio-ATF. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It is very similar to Bio-ATF derived from jatropha oil which was recently used to run India’s first first-ever environment friendly biofuel powered flight between Dehradun and Delhi.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">For this pilot test, CSIR-IIP had collected used cooking oil from caterers and hotels in Dehradun. It has now set platform for commercial use of this technology.</span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Significance </span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Reduce re-use of cooking oil in food industry will have positive public health outcomes.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Moreover, its conversion into Bio-ATF will help aviation sector reduce its carbon footprint.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will also help to Indian AirForce (IAF) and civil aviation sector to save fuel bill. </span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">RUCO initiative</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">The test of converting used cooking oil into Bio-ATF assumes importance as Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched Repurpose Cooking Oil (RUCO) initiative to collect and convert used cooking oil into bio-fuel. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">FSSAI has identified as many as 64 companies in 101 locations across the country for RUCO initiative. FSSAI estimates that by 2020, it will be possible to recover about 220 crore litres of used cooking oil for conversion into bio-fuel.</span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Ural</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is third nuclear-powered icebreaker in series of three such ships (Arktika and Sibir) built by Russia’s state owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom under ambition Project 22220Icebreaker.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It equipped with two RITM-200 nuclear reactors, with thermal capacity of 175 MW each. I</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">t has dual-draft design that allows its applicability in Arctic waters and in estuaries of polar rivers. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is 173.3 meters long and 34 meters wide. It has displacement capacity of 33540 metric tons. It can break through 3 metres (13 feet) thick ice.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is name after </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Ural mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from coast of Arctic Ocean to Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is nuclear-powered ship built for breaking waters covered with ice. It primarily helps ships to navigate in the frozen waterways in winters especially in Arctic region. It is much more powerful than their diesel-powered icebreakers. Russia is only country constructing nuclear-powered icebreakers.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Project 22220Icebreaker</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Chhabra Thermal Power Plant </span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Super Critical Thermal Power Plants</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">They operate at temperatures and pressures above critical point of water, i.e. point at which there is no difference between water gas and liquid water. It is above temperature and pressure at which liquid and gas phases of water coexist in equilibrium.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Difference with conventional coal-fired power plants</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">: water is boiled to generate steam that activates turbine to generate power. They have efficiency of about 32%.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Benefits of SC power plants:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> They require less coal per megawatt-hour, higher efficiency (above 45%), lower fuel costs per megawatt and emits lower emissions (including carbon dioxide and mercury).</span></span></span></span></li>
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'description' => '<h2 style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">NITI Aayog has proposed the establishment of giga factories in India for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries in the next couple of years. The proposal is part of NITI Aayog’s push for the adoption of electric mobility in the country. </span></span></span></span></h2>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">NITI Aayog’s Proposal</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It recently had proposed that only electric (lithium-ion or other advanced battery chemistry only) three-wheelers will be sold in the country after March 31, 2023, and only electric two-wheelers below 150cc will be sold after March 31, 2025.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Industry opposition:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> However, this debated proposal to stop selling ICE (internal combustion engine) 150cc two-wheelers was strongly opposed by two-wheeler industry, cautioning that this move would disrupt the industry that was already reeling under stress. Industry has termed this proposal impractical and also pointed out that batteries, which were crucial part of electric vehicles, were expensive and not made in India.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Arguments for Lithium-Ion Giga Factories: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> NITI Aayog held that this is sunrise industry and India needs to start building capabilities to become globally competitive player in this area. Current lack of domestic capability in this sector will cause massive imports from China for e-vehicles as is the case in electronics.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Li-Ion battery</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is type of rechargeable battery that contains several cells. Each cell consists of cathode, anode and electrolyte, separator or chemical called an electrolyte in </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">between electrodes and current collectors.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Its positive electrode is typically made from chemical compound called lithium-cobalt oxide </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">(LiCoO2) or lately lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is used. </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The negative electrode is generally made from carbon (graphite) and electrolyte varies from on</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">e type of battery to another.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">In this battery, lithium ions move from positive electrode to negative electrode during charging and </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">negative electrode to positive electrode during discharge.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Working</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During charging of battery:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> LiCoO2, positive electrode gives up some of its lithium ions, which move </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">through electrolyte to negative, graphite electrode and remain there.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> The battery takes in and stores this electrical energy produced due to moving cha</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">rge during this</span></span> <span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">process.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During discharging of battery:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Lithium ions move back across electrolyte to positive electrode, </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">producing energy that powers battery.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Benefits of Li-Ion battery</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is light weighted and is one-third weight of widely used lead a</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">cid batteries.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is nearly 100</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> efficient in both charging and discharging operations as compared to lead batteries </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">which have 70% efficiency.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It completely discharges i.e. 100</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> as compared to 80</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> discharge rate for lead acid batteries.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It has life </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">cycle of 5000 times or more compared lead acid batteries which have just 400-500 cycles.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During discharging cycle, it maintains constant voltage throughout whereas voltage in lead acid </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">battery drops consistently during discharge cycle.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It does not have</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> any adversarial environmental impact as lead acid battery, making much cleaner technology and is safer for environment. </span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is India's premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research facility. It is located in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It was established in 1954 as Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET). It was renamed to present name after Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, father of Indian nuclear programme and founder of AEET.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Its core mandate is to sustain peaceful applications of nuclear energy, primarily for power generation.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It serves as multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering entire spectrum of nuclear science, engineering and related areas.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It operates number of research reactors across the country. It also serves as India's main nuclear weapons fuel lab.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Researchers at IIT Hyderabad have developed a simple and innovative method to synthesize a catalyst that can convert chemicals derived from biomass into a precursor to diesel and jet fuel.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary processes from biomass, rather than a fuel produced by the very slow geological processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Biofuels can be produced from plants (energy crops), or from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Details</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Catalyst showed better efficiency and selectivity than commercial catalysts to produce C15 oxygenated hydrocarbon, a biofuel precursor.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The researchers described the process that can produce carbon catalysts at room temperatures using sugar, sulphuric acid and salt. The dehydration of sugar by concentrated sulfuric acid is a simple chemical process. But the intense heat released is not well-controlled.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In order to control the exothermic dehydration of sugar, the researchers add common salt. Salt helps in controlled dehydration of sugar, which leads to formation of the desired carbon nanoplates.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Low cost of precursors with practically zero energy input and simplicity of reaction has made this process of producing carbon nanoplates to be easily adapted for large-scale commercial production.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Importance of Discovery</span></span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This development is important for States such as Uttar Pradesh and the two Telugu states which are the largest producers of corn in India. </span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The large amount of corncob waste can now be converted into fuels and allow additional income for farmers of corn, provide a sustainable energy source and reduce carbon footprint in the automobile/ aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></li>
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'description' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issue</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC, DSC, DYSC or Grätzel cell) is a low-cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells. It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte, a </span></span><em><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">photoelectrochemical</span></span></em><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> system.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Details</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Most familiar solar cells today are made up of silicon and can be seen in the various overhead panels and other places but this technology is limited by huge fabrication costs as silicon processing is very expensive and involves very high temperature methods that leave a large carbon footprint.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) is based on New Fuchsin (NF) dye with aqueous electrolyte and platinum-free counter electrodes, </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The new dye developed is cheap, non-toxic and is soluble in water and importantly does not degrade in the presence of water.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The development ‘Low cost ‘green’ dye sensitized solar cells is based on New Fuchsin dye with aqueous electrolyte and platinum-free counter electrodes. Inexpensive material for the completed solar cell is a conductive carbon fabric. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:black">These liquid-electrolytes come with various drawbacks such as high vapour pressure, toxicity and sometimes explosives resulting in severe environmental impact in addition to being corrosive to the platinum counter-electrodes, thereby limiting long-time stability of the devices. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Issue</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government approved an increase in the price of ethanol to be procured by public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) from sugar mills for blending with petrol for the 2019-20 supply year from December 1.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Background</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This comes at a time when a surplus of sugar production is depressing sugar price. Consequently, sugarcane farmer's dues have increased due to the lower capability of the sugar industry to pay the farmers.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Details</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) also allowed conversion of old sugar into ethanol, which is expected to help mills deal with the current overproduction in the sweetener and make timely payments to farmers for the cane delivered by them.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Given the surplus sugar production in the country, government has allowed mills to produce ethanol from ‘B’ heavy molasses and directly from sugarcane juice.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The CCEA approved even use of sugar and sugar syrup for production of ethanol. </span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Effects of the move</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Increased ethanol blending in petrol is expected to replace 2 million tonnes of oil annually, helping save $1 billion in import bill.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These decisions will help in further increasing the ethanol blend levels from the current 6% average levels.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ethanol fermentation</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ethanol fermentation, also called alcoholic fermentation, is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_process" title="Biological process">biological process</a> which converts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugars</a> such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose" title="Glucose">glucose</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose" title="Fructose">fructose</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose" title="Sucrose">sucrose</a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate" title="Adenosine triphosphate">cellular energy</a>, producing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol" title="Ethanol">ethanol</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a> as by-products.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ethanol fermentation has many uses, including the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage">alcoholic beverages</a>, the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel" title="Ethanol fuel">ethanol fuel</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a> cooking.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared at New York last week that India would be aiming to increase its renewable energy target to 450 GW (gigawatts).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the threat of global warming has become eminent, the authorities have been planning to reduce the effects by making the transition towards sustainable sources including renewable energy such as solar, wind etc. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India’s plan for installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022 was first announced in 2015. Of this, 100 GW was to be from solar power, and so far about 80 GW has been installed.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As per India's submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), a cumulative electric power capacity of 40 per cent from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources is to be installed by 2030.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy in India</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is running one of the largest and most ambitious renewable capacity expansion programs in the world. In 2019 at UN climate summit, PM Modi announced that India will be more than doubling its renewable energy target from 175GW by 2022 to 450GW of renewable energy by the same year.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is one of the countries with the largest production of energy from renewable sources. In the electricity sector, renewable energy account for 34.6% of the total installed power capacity.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Various sources</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hydropower</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> is the 7th largest producer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric power</a> in the world. As of April 2017, India's installed utility-scale hydroelectric capacity was 44,594 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt" title="Watt">MW</a>, or 13.5% of its total utility power generation capacity.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Wind Power</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The installed capacity of wind power in India was 34,293 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatts" title="Megawatts">MW</a>, mainly spread across <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a> (2,784.90 MW), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> .</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Wind power accounts for 10% of India's total installed power capacity.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Bio mass</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> It is estimated that the potential for biomass energy in India includes 16,000 MW from biomass energy and a further 3,500 MW from bagasse cogeneration.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the London Zoo, a fern has started taking its own selfies through a camera powered by its own energy. This was achieved by installing microbial fuel cells in the plant.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Microbial fuel cells are devices that use bacteria as the catalysts to oxidise organic and inorganic matter and generate current.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the fuel cell, electrons produced by the bacteria are transferred to the negative terminal and flow to the positive terminal, thereby producing electric current.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This will create energy that can be harnessed by fuel cells and used to power a wide range of vital conservation tools remotely, including sensors, monitoring platforms and camera traps.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Applications</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The current generated from a microbial fuel cell is directly proportional to the energy content of wastewater used as the fuel. MFCs can measure the solute concentration of wastewater.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When the battery is charging up, the lithium-cobalt oxide, positive electrode gives up some of its lithium ions, which move through the electrolyte to the negative, graphite electrode and remain there.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The battery takes in and stores energy during this process. When the battery is discharging, the lithium ions move back across the electrolyte to the positive electrode, producing the energy that powers the battery.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In both cases, electrons flow in the opposite direction to the ions around the outer circuit.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lithium ion batteries are more reliable than older technologies such as nickel-cadmium and don't suffer from a problem known as the "memory effect" (where batteries appear to become harder to charge unless they're discharged fully first).</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from IIT Bombay have discovered special properties in a class of materials called “semi-Dirac metals” which can be utilised for producing clean energy.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A quantum material is a label that has come to signify the area of condensed-matter physics formerly known as strongly correlated electronic systems. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Although the field is broad, a unifying theme is the discovery and investigation of materials whose electronic properties cannot be understood with concepts from contemporary condensed-matter textbooks.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Results in the study show a very high optical conductivity of semi-Dirac materials for electromagnetic waves [light waves] of a specific frequency and specific polarisation.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Normal metals like gold and silver are good conductors of electricity. A key aspect that decides the quality of conduction is the way energy depends on the momentum of electrons.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dirac metals differ from normal metals in that the energy depends linearly on the momentum. This difference is responsible for their unique properties.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Semi-Dirac metals behave like Dirac metals in one direction and like normal metals in the perpendicular directions (since their microscopic structure is different along the two directions).</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Within any material, charge carriers, such as electrons, acquire an effective mass which is different from their bare mass depending on the nature of the material. The effective mass and the number of states available for the electron to occupy when it is excited by an electric field, determine the conductivity and other such properties.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With the advent of man-made 2D materials, such properties have become quite tailor able in what comprises the active field of quantum materials. The velocities can be over a100 times more than normal metals, thus increasing the mobility and currents that can be carried across devices made of these so-called Dirac materials.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The semi-dirac materials are capable of producing Thermoelectricity. Thermoelectricity is a clean energy technology that uses waste heat to produce electricity typically in low power applications.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Semi-Dirac</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Semi-Dirac metals are systems such as TiO2/V2O3 nanostructures. Through calculations, the researchers have shown that such materials would be transparent to light of a given frequency and polarisation when it is incident along a particular direction. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The material would be opaque to the same light when it falls on it from a different direction. There are many known applications for transparent conducting films, the common example being touch screens used in mobiles.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Japan is gearing up to put on its roads thousands of vehicles based on a hydrogen cell technology, also known as ‘fuel cells’, ahead of Tokyo Olympics.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Japan’s lead in the practical application of the hydrogen fuel cycle, and the ongoing research in this field at the International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy are being studied closely by the Indian government as it readies a hydrogen-fuelled blueprint.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the heart of the fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) is a device that uses a source of fuel, such as hydrogen, and an oxidant to create electricity by an electrochemical process. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen to generate an electric current, water being the only byproduct. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Like conventional batteries under the bonnets of automobiles, hydrogen fuel cells too convert chemical energy into electrical energy. From a long-term viability perspective, FCEVs are billed as vehicles of the future, given that hydrogen is the most abundant resource in the universe.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical process, unlike a battery-electricity vehicle, it does not store energy and, instead, relies on a constant supply of fuel and oxygen in the same way that an internal combustion engine relies on a constant supply of petrol or diesel, and oxygen.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">But unlike the combustion engine cars, there are no moving parts in the fuel cell, so they are more efficient and reliable by comparison.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The successful development of hydrogen would provide energy for transportation and electric power and advantage is the wide availability of resources for producing hydrogen.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Advantages of Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV)</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fuel cells have strong advantages over conventional combustion-based technologies currently used in many power plants and cars, given that they produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases and none of the air pollutants that cause health problems.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Such cells are also far more energy efficient than traditional combustion technologies.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unlike battery-powered electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles do not need to be plugged in, and most models exceed 300 km of range on a full tank. They are filled up with a nozzle, just like in a petrol or diesel station.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are questions of safety as hydrogen is more explosive than petrol.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The process of making hydrogen needs energy , often from fossil fuel sources. That has raised questions over hydrogen’s green credentials.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The other major hurdle is that the vehicles are expensive, and fuel dispensing pumps are scarce.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Way ahead</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In India, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, under its Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) programme, has been supporting various such projects in academic institutions, research and development organisations and industry for development.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ministry of Science and Technology has supported two networked centres on hydrogen storage led by IIT Bombay and Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Moscow-based Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division has installed a core melt localisation device (CMLD) or “core catcher” at Unit 3 of Tamil Nadu’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kudankulam, is India’s first nuclear plant to use imported PWR technology.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device is designed to localise and cool the molten core material in case of a meltdown accident.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Core Catcher</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher is a cone shaped metal structure that weighs about 800 tonnes. The structure is double walled, with the gap between the two walls filled with FAOG (ferric and aluminium oxide granules). </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher is filled with a ceramic mixture also including ferric oxide and aluminium oxide, called ‘<strong>sacrificial</strong> <strong>material’</strong>.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sacrificial material prevents the corium from trickling through and also acts as a cooling mechanism.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Molten core material, or corium, is lava-like material that gets formed in the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a meltdown accident. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Such an accident occurs when the nuclear fission reaction taking place inside a reactor is not sufficiently cooled, and the buildup of heat causes fuel rods to melt down. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The corium so formed can remain radioactive for several decades, even centuries.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher device is installed at the bottom of the nuclear station’s protective shell, and is designed to save the latter as well as exude radioactive emission in the environment in case of a serious accident.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device has improved seismic resistance, hydro-dynamic and shock strength as well as equipped with flood protection and simplified installation and assembly technology.</span></span></p>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati<strong> </strong> has developed materials that can produce energy from flowing or stagnant water in households. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The decentralised energy model involves a large number of small generation devices that can generate energy in every household and the excess energy thus produced can be evacuated to energy-deficient areas nearby.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team employed “electro-kinetic streaming potential” to harvest energy from flowing tap water and “contrasting inter-facial activities” employing different types of semiconducting materials to generate power from stagnant water.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When fluids stream through tiny channels that are charged, they can generate an electrical voltage, which may be harnessed through miniaturised generators.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team also fabricated devices with doped graphene flakes for generating power by dipping in a bucket of water or any stagnant water source to “complementary charge transfer activities”.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Water stored in buckets and water flowing from taps can potentially be used to produce energy if such nano-generators can be developed further.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers at the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Madras have designed a new sodium sulphur battery that can be operated at room temperature.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventional sodium sulphur batteries require very high temperature (300 degree C) for operation.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">By operating the battery at room temperature, the team was able to achieve higher charge storage capacity (technically called the specific capacity) and nearly zero self-discharge when the battery is not being used.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The battery also showed 83% retention of capacity even at the end of 500 cycles of charging and discharging. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The first step that the team took to operate the battery at room temperature was by changing the electrolyte used.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventionally, sodium sulphur batteries use a solid electrolyte (sodium beta alumina), which by default reduces the diffusion of sodium ions from the anode to the cathode at room temperature. It is to increase the diffusion of sodium ions that the temperature is raised to about 300 degree C.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In place of a solid electrolyte the researchers used a glass fibre separator soaked in ether-based electrolyte that allows the battery to be operated at room temperature.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Changing the electrolyte alone is not sufficient to improve battery performance as there are other problems with sodium sulphur batteries.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The first problem is that with increasing amount of polysuphides getting dissolved into the electrolyte, there is a net loss in the cathode sulphur. In addition, the dissolved polysuphides move towards the anode and form a coating over it. This reduces the performance of the battery.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To address the problem, the team added a shielding layer very close to the cathode. The shielding layer is made of white graphite mixed in a polymer matrix.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The polymer allows the sodium ions to pass through while the white graphite added to the polymer matrix prevents the migration of polysuphides to the anode.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since the migration of the polysuphides to the sodium anode is prevented by the shielding layer, self-discharge of the battery is significantly reduced.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While conductive carbons are added to the sulphur to make it electrically conductive in conventional sulphur batteries, the researchers used partially exfoliated multiwalled carbon nanotubes.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new study presents a material that emits light when heated that appears to exceed the limits set by that natural law. Researchers were wondering if there is a new light in the world that breaks hitherto known laws of nature.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Planck’s Law, no material can emit more radiation than an idealised material ‘blackbody’ that absorbs energy perfectly.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. Increasing heat causes all materials to emit more intense radiation, with the peak of the emitted spectrum shifting to longer wavelengths as heat rises.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new material defies the convention set by Planck’s law, emitting light that is coherent, similar to that produced by lasers or LEDs. The difference is that it doesn’t need the costly structure needed to produce the stimulated emission of those technologies.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers demonstrated ‘Super-Planckian’ material, which showed a spike in radiation at about 1.7 microns, which is the near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They believe the light is coming from within the crystal, which has so many planes within the structure, so many surfaces acting as oscillators, so much excitation, that it behaves almost like an artificial laser material.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The new material could find applications in optical physics, energy harvesting, military infrared-based object tracking and identification.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We can’t ship packages between Mars and Earth back on forth: one, that would be extremely expensive; two, it is not sustainable. So it is necessary for us to have a plan to produce most items locally.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nanowires are incredibly thin silicon wires that are about a hundredth of the width of a human hair. They are used as electronic components, sensors, and solar cells.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In order to work it, we only need sunlight and water, which Mars has plenty on its vast surfaces in frozen form.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The left side of the reactor is the chamber which contains the nanowire-bacteria hybrid that reduces CO<sub>2</sub> to form acetate. Oxygen is produced on the right side.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team first demonstrated the nanowire-bacteria hybrid reactor five years ago; however, the solar conversion efficiency was only about 0.4%. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Top efficiency is achieved by operating at the optimal acidity for bacteria, which gave more efficient conversion of solar energy to carbon bonds. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The silicon nanowires are essentially like an antenna: They capture the solar photon just like a solar panel. Within these silicon nanowires, they will generate electrons and feed them to these bacteria. Then the bacteria absorb CO<sub>2</sub>, and spit out acetate.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The biohybrid can pull carbon dioxide from the air on Earth to make organic compounds. We can almost think of this as planting new trees. While producing energy, it helps with climate change too. It brings a good deal for everyone involved.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Purple bacteria, which store energy from light, can help harvest hydrogen fuel from sewage, and recover carbon from any type of organic waste.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Organic compounds in household sewage and industrial wastewater are a rich potential source of energy, bioplastics and even proteins for animal feed -- but with no efficient extraction method, treatment plants discard them as contaminants.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study is the first to show that supplying electric current to purple phototrophic bacteria can recover nearly 100 per cent of carbon from any type of organic waste, while generating hydrogen gas for electricity production.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria are extremely versatile thanks to their complex metabolic system that involves major carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and iron pathways, catalysed by various enzymes, he says. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They absorb infrared energy through their photosystem, which is composed of carotenoids and bacteriochlorophylls. This means that they can be used to extract valuable products, such as biofuels like biohydrogen, bioplastics like PHA and even single-cell proteins, from waste sources.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria capture energy from sunlight using a variety of pigments, which turn them shades of orange, red or brown -- as well as purple.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria make an ideal tool for resource recovery from organic waste, thanks to their highly diverse metabolism.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The bacteria can use organic molecules and nitrogen gas -- instead of carbon dioxide and water -- to provide carbon, electrons and nitrogen for photosynthesis.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This means that they grow faster than alternative phototrophic bacteria and algae, and can generate hydrogen gas, proteins or a type of biodegradable polyester as byproducts of metabolism.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers analysed the optimum conditions for maximising hydrogen production by a mixture of purple phototrophic bacteria species.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They also tested the effect of a negative current -- The first key finding was that the nutrient blend that fed the highest rate of hydrogen production also minimised the production of CO2.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This demonstrates that purple bacteria can be used to recover valuable biofuel from organics typically found in wastewater -- malic acid and sodium glutamate -- with a low carbon footprint, that is, electrons supplied by metal electrodes in the growth medium -- on the metabolic behaviour of the bacteria.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yeast biomass-derived materials can help develop efficient, eco-friendly and economic catalysts to improve the sustainability of hydrogen production.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is the cleanest primary energy source on earth. One way of producing environmentally-friendly hydrogen is via the electrolysis of water. However, such method needed noble-metal-based catalysts, such as platinum (Pt) for the HER and Iridium (Ir) for the OER. However, these catalysts are typically rare, expensive, and less durable.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists focused on the squander yeast biomass, as catalyst material that will improve oxygen and hydrogen generation, while replacing the noble metal catalysts, for example, Pt or Ir. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As yeast is a living organism, it is wealthy in substances, for example, carbon (C), phosphorus (P), sulphur (S), and nitrogen (N).</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the study, the research team has created two catalysts that promote the generation of both hydrogen and oxygen, using waste yeast as catalyst support. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They reported hydrogen and oxygen production in 1 M potassium hydroxide using ruthenium single atoms (RuSAs) along with Ru nanoparticles (RuNPs) embedded in MHC (RuSAs + RuNPs@MHC) as a cathode and magnetite (Fe3O4) supported on MHC (Fe3O4@MHC) as an anode.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Compared to coal and oil, waste yeast is eco-friendly, inexpensive, and readily available biomass, and the results of the study suggest a new application of waste yeast biomass.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists believe the world will see its first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That’s a tall order in short form, especially when you consider that fusion has been here for nearly a century.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fusion reactors are the holiest of Grails when it comes to physics achievements. According to most experts, a successful fusion reactor would function as a near-unlimited source of energy.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">TAE, one of the companies working on the fusion problem, says the big difference-maker now is machine learning. According to a report from Forbes, Google’s been helping TAE come up with modern solutions to decades-old math problems by using novel AI systems to facilitate the discovery of new fusion techniques.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fusion occurs naturally in stars such as our sun, but recreating the sun’s conditions on Earth is simply not possible with our current technology.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sun is much more massive than the Earth, and that mass comes with the fusion-friendly benefit of increased gravity.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All that extra gravity smashes the sun’s atoms into one another. The combination of pressure and heat force hydrogen atoms to fuse together, thus becoming helium atoms. This results in the expulsion of energy.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unfortunately all the current terrestrial attempts at fusion have come up short because, though many have been successful at fusing atoms, they always take more energy to produce the temperatures required to fuse atoms on Earth than said atoms produce in the process.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The entry of AI and machine learning has made things interesting. By giving physicists “super human” analysis abilities, they can turn around experiments faster. This enables quicker iterations and more meaningful results.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nuclear Fusion</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons). </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the release or absorption of energy.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A fusion process that produces nuclei lighter than iron-56 or nickel-62 will generally release energy. These elements have relatively small mass per nucleon and large binding energy per nucleon. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Fusion nuclei lighter than these releases energy (an exothermic process), while fusion of heavier nuclei results in energy retained by the product nucleons, and the resulting reaction is endothermic. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Humans depend on fossil fuels as their primary energy source, especially in transportation. However, fossil fuels are both unsustainable and unsafe, serving as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and leading to adverse respiratory effects and devastation due to global warming.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Beyond solid, liquid and gas, plasma is the fourth state of matter, consisting of an aggregate of charged ions. It exists naturally in places like the sun's surface and Earth's lightning, but it can also be generated. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers created a plasma jet by compressing air into high pressures and using a microwave to ionize the pressurized air stream.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This method differs from previous attempts to create plasma jet thrusters in one key way. Other plasma jet thrusters use xenon plasma, which cannot overcome the friction in Earth's atmosphere, and are therefore not powerful enough for use in air transportation. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Instead, the authors' plasma jet thruster generates the high-temperature, high-pressure plasma in situ using only injected air and electricity.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cosmic neutrinos turned out to be linked to flares at the centers of distant active galaxies, which are believed to host supermassive black holes. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In combination with 16 other enzymes from nine different organisms, this created a new CO2-to-organic-chemical cycle they dubbed the CETCH cycle.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">That would open the door to engineering the genes for this novel photosynthesis pathway into crops to create novel varieties that grow much faster than current varieties—a boon for agriculture in a world with a booming population</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333">.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The research is based on the discovery that electricity materializes in the interaction between water molecules and metal surfaces. They sought to capitalize on a naturally occurring phenomenon: electricity from water.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Electricity in thunderstorms is generated only by water in its different phases -- water vapour, water droplets, and ice. Twenty minutes of cloud development is how we get from water droplets to huge electric discharges like lightning.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers set out to try to produce a tiny low-voltage battery that utilizes only humidity in the air, building on the findings of earlier discoveries. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A much more recent study showed that certain metals spontaneously build up an electrical charge when exposed to humidity.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The scientists conducted a laboratory experiment to determine the voltage between two different metals exposed to high relative humidity, while one is grounded. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They found that there was no voltage between them when the air was dry. But once the relative humidity rose above 60%, a voltage began to develop between the two isolated metal surfaces. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When they lowered the humidity level to below 60%, the voltage disappeared. When they carried out the experiment outside in natural conditions, they saw the same results.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This study challenges established ideas about humidity and its potential as an energy source. Water is normally thought of as a good conductor of electricity, not something that can build up-charge on a surface. However, it seems that things are different once the relative humidity exceeds a certain threshold.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The results may be particularly important as a renewable source of energy in developing countries, where many communities still do not have access to electricity, but the humidity is constantly about 60%.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The 750- megawatt Rewa solar Power Plant in Madhya Pradesh was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The solar plant was set up by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited, a joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited and the Centre’s Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The plant consists of three solar power generating units that are located on a 500-hectare plot of land inside a 1,500-hectare solar park. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mahindra Renewables Pvt, Arinsun Clean Energy Pvt, and ACME Jaipur Solar Power Pvt are the three companies that bagged the mandate to build the three generating units.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The 750-MW solar plant is quite large in terms of scale and is expected to reduce the country’s emission drastically, by an amount equivalent to 15 lakh tonne of carbon dioxide annually. But while it is one of the largest single-site solar power plants in India, it is not the largest in Asia.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The distinction of the world’s second-largest photovoltaic power station goes to the Bhadla Solar Park, with a capacity of 2,245 MW, in Jodhpur district in Rajasthan, and the Pavagada Solar Park in Tumkur district, Karnataka, which has a capacity of 2,050 MW.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The project has three units of 250 MW each. The process of the reverse auction in bidding for projects was tried for the first time in India for this project.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">International Finance Corporation, a World Bank group company, has invested close to $440 million or Rs 2,800 crore in the project.</span></span></p>
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<li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is a landmark event in India’s domestic civilian nuclear programme given that KAPP-3 is the country’s first 700 MWe (megawatt electric) unit, and the biggest indigenously developed variant of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The PHWRs, which use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderator, are the mainstay of India’s nuclear reactor fleet. Until now, the biggest reactor size of the indigenous design was the 540 MWe PHWR, two of which have been deployed in Tarapur, Maharashtra.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently, nuclear power capacity constitutes less than 2% of the total installed capacity of 3, 68,690 MW (end-January 2020).</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The retrofitted Caravan plane, which can carry nine passengers, is expected to take off at 8 am Pacific time on May 28, and will fly at a speed of 183 kmph.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Major industry players such as Airbus and Rolls Royce, a number of startups, as well as the space agency NASA are involved in developing electric flight technologies.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Despite the promise shown by short-range electric flights, several more years of development is expected for powering long-distance journeys. A major obstacle in this process is battery technology, with the weight of the battery being a major challenge.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The aviation sector is a fast-growing source of carbon emissions, and significantly contributes to climate change. According to the World Wildlife Federation, unregulated carbon pollution from aviation is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Making the aviation sector eco-friendly is an important step for meeting the 2016 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the increase in global temperatures to below 2 deg Celsius, and pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 deg Celsius.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Plastic from used personal protective equipment (PPE) can be transformed into renewable liquid fuels, according to a new study.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The research describes a strategy for converting billions of items of disposable PPE from its plastic state into biofuels.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers call for PPE waste to be converted into fuel using chemical a process called pyrolysis.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pyrolysis is the most commonly used chemical method whose benefits include the ability to produce high quantities of bio-oil which is easily biodegradable.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This breaks down plastic at high temperature – between 300-400°C for an hour – without oxygen. This process is among the most promising and sustainable methods of recycling compared with incineration and landfill.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The transformation into biocrude, a type of synthetic fuel, will not just prevent the severe after-effects to humankind and the environment but also produce a source of energy.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">During the current Covid-19 pandemic specifically, PPE is being designed for single-use followed by disposal.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Recycling these polymers requires both physical methods and chemical methods. Reduction, reuse, and recycling are the three pillars of sustainable development that can help to prevent the disposal of plastic in the environment.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have discovered a new material to split hydrogen and water, using solar power.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The research is expected to bring the conversion and storage part in a single system, which would reduce the cost per kWh of solar energy.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A single photoelectrochemical system that can harness and store solar energy in the form of chemical fuel can reduce the cost of per kWh solar energy.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Solar energy conversion to electricity and its storage at low cost, is an integral part of renewable energy research. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The research aims to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels and in turn move out of anthropogenic greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is an immediate requirement to develop low-cost solar energy conversion and storage systems that can produce energy equal to, or lower than the cost of grid power.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Halide perovskite completely absorbs the entire visible light and remains extremely stable in ambient. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It was also found to be stable in strong acids and bases. Using the material’s stability he combined solar energy conversion and storage in the form of chemical fuels. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Then using sunlight, and with a photo-electrochemical device made with halide perovskite, the team was able to successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Thermochemical water splitting</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thermochemical water splitting processes use high-temperature heat (500°–2,000°C) to drive a series of chemical reactions that produce hydrogen. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The chemicals used in the process are reused within each cycle, creating a closed loop that consumes only water and produces hydrogen and oxygen.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Numerous solar thermochemical water-splitting cycles have been investigated for hydrogen production, each with different sets of operating conditions, engineering challenges, and hydrogen production opportunities. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The efficiency and durability of reactant materials for thermochemical cycling need to be improved.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Efficient and robust reactor designs compatible with high temperatures and heat cycling need to be developed.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For solar thermochemical systems, the cost of the concentrating mirror systems needs to be reduced.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in air.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study used sugary droplets packed with living algal cells to generate hydrogen, rather than oxygen, by photosynthesis.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is potentially a climate-neutral fuel, offering many possible uses as a future energy source. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A major drawback is that making hydrogen involves using a lot of energy, so green alternatives are being sought and this discovery could provide an important step forward.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">By burying the cells deep inside the droplets, oxygen levels fell to a level that switched on special enzymes called hydrogenases that hijacked the normal photosynthetic pathway to produce hydrogen.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To increase the level of hydrogen evolution, the team coated the living micro-reactors with a thin shell of bacteria, which were able to scavenge for oxygen and therefore increase the number of algal cells geared up for hydrogenase activity.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hydrogen fuel</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen fuel is a zero-emission fuel burned with oxygen. It can be used in fuel cells or internal combustion engines.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is usually considered an energy carrier, like electricity, as it must be produced from a primary energy source such as solar energy, biomass, electricity, or hydrocarbons such as natural gas or coal. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventional hydrogen production using natural gas induces significant environmental impacts; as with the use of any hydrocarbon, carbon dioxide is emitted.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen fuel can provide motive power for liquid-propellant rockets, cars, trains, boats, and airplanes, portable fuel cell applications or stationary fuel cell applications, which can power an electric motor.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The problems of using hydrogen fuel in cars arise from the fact that hydrogen is difficult to store in either a high pressure tank or a cryogenic tank.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be laying foundation stone for the world's largest renewable solar and wind energy park in Gujarat's Kutch.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With government of India committing towards installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025, the Gujarat government identified wasteland near the international border for setting up the park.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The renewable park will have two zones: one will exclusively contain Wind Park and the other will be hybrid consisting of both solar and wind parks.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The land in the park is allotted to different energy developers who will install structures according to their demand. This will be both wind as well as solar.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>India’s renewable energy targets</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As of now, 38% of India's installed electricity generation capacity is from renewable sources (136 GW out of 373 GW).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the Paris Agreement India had committed to an Intended Nationally Determined Contributions target of achieving 40% of its total electricity generation from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The country is aiming for even more ambitious target of 57% of the total electricity capacity from renewable sources by 2027. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to 2027 blueprint, India aims to have 275 GW from renewable energy, 72 GW of hydroelectricity, 15 GW of nuclear energy, and nearly 100 GW from “other zero emission” sources. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Government of India has also set a target for installation of Rooftop Solar Projects (RTP) of 40 GW by 2022 including installation on rooftop of houses.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government target of installing 20 GW of solar power by 2022 but it was achieved four years ahead of schedule in January 2018, through both solar parks as well as roof-top solar panels. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India then set a new target of achieving 100 GW of solar power, 60GW of wind power, 10GW of bio mass, and 5GW of small hydro power by 2022. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Three of the top five largest solar parks worldwide are in India including the second-largest solar park in the world at Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, with a capacity of 1000 MW. The world's largest solar power plant, Bhadla Solar Park is in Rajasthan with a capacity of 2255 MW.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Fuel outlets have begun placing banners stating that the petrol they sell contains ethanol, which is a bio-fuel obtained primarily from sugarcane.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This blending is being done by the oil marketing companies in their terminals and is not something new and is being used the world-over. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government has set a target of reaching 10% ethanol-blending by 2022 (10% of ethanol mixed with 90% of petrol) - and 20% by 2030.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is 83% dependent on imports for meeting its oil needs. Doping petrol with ethanol will cut down the import requirement. Also, ethanol being less polluting fuel, it will cut down carbon emissions.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ethanol</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is the organic compound Ethyl Alcohol which is produced from biomass. It is also an ingredient in alcoholic beverages. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It has a higher octane number than gasoline, hence improves the petrol octane number. Ethanol has insignificant amount of water in it.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since ethanol contains oxygen, it is supposed to help in complete combustion of fuel, resulting in lower emissions.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since ethanol is produced from plants that harness the power of the sun, ethanol is also considered as renewable fuel.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Biofuel types</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1G bioethanol plants utilise sugarcane juice and molasses, by-products in the production of sugar, as raw material, while 2G plants utilise surplus biomass and agricultural waste to produce bioethanol. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shortage of biofuel</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Many sugar mills which are best placed to produce bioethanol do not have the financial stability to invest in biofuel plants and there and there are also concerns among investors on the uncertainty o the price of bio-ethanol in the future.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil Corporation has started into a joint venture with Israel-based start-up Phinergy to develop aluminium-air technology based battery systems.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The electric vehicle segment in India is highly unexplored due to lack of recharge infrastructure. The new technology is expected to boost mobility.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Companies like Maruti Suzuki and Ashok Leyland have already signed letters of intent with the joint venture to commercially use the battery solutions produced by the company.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air batteries lower the cost and are more energy-dense compared to lithium-ion batteries which are currently in use for Indian electric vehicles. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An aluminium-air battery undertakes use of oxygen in the air which reacts with an aluminium hydroxide solution to oxidise the aluminium to produce electricity. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Advantages</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air battery-based electric vehicles offer much greater range of 400 km or more per battery compared to lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They will reduce our dependency on Chinese imported Lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the battery life, the aluminium present in the aluminium-ion battery can be harvested to be used in other industries.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air based batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, thereby reducing the final cost of electric vehicle.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Drawbacks</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of the major drawbacks of aluminium-air batteries is that they cannot be recharged like lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Large scale utilisation of aluminium-air battery based vehicles would need the wide availability of battery swapping stations.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Danish government has approved a plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea as part of its effort to switch to green energy.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The project is being called the largest construction project to be undertaken in Denmark’s history with an estimated cost of DKK 210 billion.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In June 2020, the Danish Parliament decided to initiate the construction of two energy islands, which will export power to mainland Denmark and neighbouring countries. </span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An energy island is based on a platform that serves as a hub for electricity generation from surrounding offshore wind farms.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The idea is to connect and distribute power between Denmark and neighbouring countries. Denmark has already entered into agreements with the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium to begin the joint analysis of connections in the energy island.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of these islands will be located in the North Sea and the second island, called the island of Bornholm, will be located in the Baltic Sea.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The artificial island will be located about 80 km into the North Sea and the majority of it will be owned by the Danish government. Its primary purpose is to provide large-scale offshore wind power.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Importance of the project</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The move has come after the EU announced its plans to transform its electricity system to rely mostly on renewables within a decade and to increase its offshore wind energy capacity by over 25-fold by the year 2050.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Estimates suggest that it will be able to store and produce enough green energy to cover the electricity requirements of over 3 million households in the European Union (EU).</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Denmark wants to become the first country in the world to begin working on such energy islands with a total capacity of about 5 GW offshore winds. The construction of both islands is expected to be complete by 2030.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Renewable energy is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, including carbon neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To increase performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, researchers of IIT Guwahati have developed a new technique.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on Lithium-ion battery.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lithium-ion batteries are currently used in mobile phones, tablets, laptops and among other devices. The first commercially usable Li-ion battery was created in 1985.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The development of the battery started during the oil crisis of 1970s when there were efforts made to develop energy alternative to oil.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These batteries can be used for storing energy developed using solar and wind energy. This basically allows us to live in fossil fuel less world.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They are susceptible to overheating and also prone to damage at high voltage as a result of their flammable and combustible material.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They start to lose their capacity over time due to continuous cycle of charging and discharging.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>New research</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers have developed a technique to identify state of charge. The State of charge (SOC) signals the amount of charge that can be withdrawn from the battery before it gets fully discharged. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This knowledge will help in optimizing battery’s capacity, preventing overcharging and undercharging, increasing lifespan of battery, reducing cost, and ensuring safety of the battery and its surroundings.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Predicting SOC is difficult to achieve. It is critical in improving battery’s lifespan and optimizing its capacity.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Alternatives to Li-ion batteries</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Australian researchers have developed a lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery that has the capacity to power a smartphone for more than 5 days. It is equivalent to driving car for 1000km.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Li-sulphur batteries are better because of their cost of production, energy efficiency and improved safety. Their cost of production is also lower as sulphur is easily available.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sun is able to achieve high temperatures due to fusion reactions. The previous attempts to simulate the sun have proved unsuccessful.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reactor achieved a peak temperature of 288 million degrees Fahrenheit which is about 10 times hotter than sun.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The experiment is a new step towards promoting alternative cleaner energy that produces limited wastage and is limitless.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>EAST</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The East is an artificial experimental device to mimic nuclear fusion reaction. It is located in Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of China.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The main aim of the experiments is to replicate the process of fusion through which the sun produces its energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The EAST is one among the three experimental fusion reactors currently being run across China. The other two are HL-2A and J-TEXT.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The East is part of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility, which will be the biggest nuclear fusion reactor after becoming operational.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Member countries contributing to the project includes India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Working of East</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The current nuclear fission reaction generates waste along with energy. The fusion is instead without waste and the amount of energy generated is also higher.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device will try to emulate the nuclear fusion process that takes place in stars and sun and considered to be future of renewable energy.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fuel will be heated to very high temperatures to convert it into plasma form. It will be kept away for long duration away from walls to prevent cooling down.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Benefits of nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion does not emit green house gases. It does not generate waste by-products unlike the nuclear fission.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion currently is not controlled. Once it is mastered, it will be an unlimited source of clean energy at less cost.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new device known as heat pumps is being used to drive out hot air in Western US, which is suffering from historic heat-waves.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many citizens have been forced to buy AC for the first time due to the heat. But ACs are not environment friendly.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The heat pumps are said to be a good and environment friendly alternative to AC. They do not make use of any kind of fossil fuels.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These devices are most appropriate in areas where cooling and heating requirements are moderate.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heat pumps make use of electric current to transfer heat from cold place to warm place. It ensures that cool place remains cooler and the warm place warmer.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It does not generate hot or cold air but rather shifts cold and hot air. It absorbs hot air from within a room and releases it outside during cooling process.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heat pumps are two types based on the medium of heat absorption. One absorbs heat from air and other from ground.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Eco-friendly nature</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They do not create hot or cold air so does not require fossil fuels. It works like a refrigerator to transfer heat using minimal amount of electricity.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It cannot be said as a completely renewable option due to use of electricity but the amount of emissions is lower than AC.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Feasibility</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The pump is not cheap. It may cost higher than ACs or heating system as it requires laying of pipeline consisting of fluid.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In such a case, air pumps are most suited. The savings on use of this device depends on the area it services and the time used.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In India, the device is getting popular in places such as movie halls, malls and large buildings. The availability of solar energy makes it an attractive option.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A breakthrough in nuclear fusion research has been reported by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fusion technology experiments were carried out in National Ignition Facility of the research laboratory.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers used laser to heat pellets of tritium and deuterium. The small area of target produced enough heat to make the atoms fuse and produce energy. About 1.3 mega joules of energy was produced.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The energy produced is not significant enough in terms of general practice but is very important when fusion technology is concerned.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a process in which several smaller nuclei are combined into a large single nucleus with subsequent release of energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion is a form of unlimited renewable energy. The same process happens on the surface of Sun and powers it.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The process is preferable because it produces no long radioactive waste, do not emit carbon dioxide and inexhaustible.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Achievement of breakthrough</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fusion reaction was triggered after the team made changes to the energy level of laser and the precision. The design of facility was also varied. The conditions were made similar to centre of our sun.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An ionized matter of state known as plasma is formed when multiple nuclei fuse. It also releases alpha particles that trigger self sustenance of the reaction.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issues for future</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The energy produced is just fraction of energy needed to run a fusion nuclear power plant. The technology needs more enhancements.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The imitation of conditions on the sun will allow scientists to produce matter that is only available on stars and supernovae.</span></span></p>
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'title' => 'Oil and gas companies exploring green energy options',
'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">State-owned oil companies, including Oil and Natural Gas Corporation are planning to invest in renewable energy.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These investments are being made in order to reach a target of 10 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2040.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many oil companies across the globe are trying to reduce their carbon footprint by investing in renewable energy.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is in line with the global effort to slow down climate change by reducing emissions due to fossil fuels.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The oil companies are also trying hard to help government to achieve ambitious renewable energy targets. These investments are part of reaching the target.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India has a rather ambitious renewable energy target. It plans to reach 450 GW of renewable energy by 2030 from the existing 100 GW.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy investments</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ONGC will be aiming at achieving 10 GW of renewable energy by 2040 from the existing 178MW of renewable energy capacity.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">GAIL is looking to increase its renewable energy capacities to 1 GW within 3-4 years from the existing 130 MW. It is undertaking a series of acquisitions.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil Corporation Ltd is setting up 257 electric charging and battery swapping stations across many fuel outlets. This is done considering the migration towards electric mobility.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The company will start a joint venture with Sun Mobility to set up battery swapping. It will also set up India’s first green hydrogen plant in Mathura.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil will partner with startup Phinergy to manufacture aluminum-air technology based battery systems for electric vehicles.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Tata Power are jointly setting up vehicle charging stations at petrol pumps.</span></span></p>
</li>
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'tag' => 'Energy',
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For the first time ever, researchers have made direct detection of dark energy. Earlier, there were only certain clues about its existence.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark energy is described as a form of energy that makes up about 68% of the universe. It has managed to intrigue scientists and astronomers from many years.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark energy signs were found when certain unexpected results were obtained during XENON1T experiment.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The XENON1T experiment is an underground experiment conducted at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. It is the most sensitive dark matter experiment and hence conducted deep underground.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The results are an indication that experiments designed to identify dark matter can also be used to detect dark energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Dark energy and dark matter</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe and dark energy 68%. The things we see make up only 5% of all the matter in universe.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The dark matter is responsible for attracting and keeping galaxies together whereas dark energy repels to cause expansion of our universe.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientific community has more information about dark matter as it was conceptualized in 1920s whereas dark energy was discovered recently in 1998.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The discovery</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sometimes unexpected discoveries are made, which are considered flukes. The events that may have been due to background noise could be dark energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A screening mechanism known as chameleon was used. It could be used to show that dark energy particles produced in the Sun’s strong magnetic fields could explain the signal seen in XENON1T.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Direct detection</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Upgrades to the XENON1T experiment and similar experiments such as LUX-Zeplin and PandaX-xT could help in directly detecting dark energy in upcoming days.</span></span></p>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Europe is facing a natural gas shortage of high magnitude. The reserves have been all-time low and prices have gone up.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Natural gas is the major source for heating homes during the harsh winters. Customers are already facing high bills.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">European countries import majority of their energy from middle-east. The pandemic has affected supply chains and raised costs.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Countries rely on underground gas stored in caverns to handle sudden additional demand for gas for heating or electricity.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This year, the caverns were only 56% full compared to 73% last year. The reasons include harsh winters, non delivery from Russia and high demands in Asia.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cold weather would mean that the countries would need to import 5-10% more gas compared to normal times.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Effects</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The shortage of supply and growing demands has pushed the prices higher. Prices have climbed to nine times their level at the start of last year.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Analysts have observed that traders have diverted their Asia bounds ships from middle of the ocean towards Europe to take advantage of lucrative prices.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Role of Russia</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">State-owned Gazprom has sold less gas on short term. The company is focusing on fulfilling its long-term contracts.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Russia may be using the opportunity to pressurize west European nations in resolving border tensions that occurred near Ukraine.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Role of weather</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Mild winter will be the key in averting the shortage disaster. The temperatures have been normal till now but it can change fast.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Moves by government</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Many countries are offering cash subsidies to consumers to tide over high prices and soften the impact on household income.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">On a long term, there should be focus on renewable energy such as solar and wind.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Cooperation between countries</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In extreme situations, countries can declare gas emergency and shut down industrial customers to spare households. This will hurt economy but save lives.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Countries can request supplies from neighbouring countries under EU legislation. It remains to be seen if countries are willing to help even if they face shortages.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The mechanism has not been tested till now but many changes are being envisioned such as joint purchase of gas.</span></span></p>
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'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Rules to pool tariffs will soon be introduced by the Union power ministry. This has been done to accelerate the procurement of solar power by power distribution companies. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">There are also plans to boost bundling of renewable energy in existing thermal Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">All solar power procured during a period will be pooled and buyers will have to pay an average of all the tariffs that are contracted in a pooling period. </span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During the next bid, if the prices are found to be lower than previous, they will be pooled again to arrive at the new price.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Need for pooling</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Solar power tariffs are falling continuously due to reduction of solar panel prices. Discoms are waiting for prices to fall further rather than contracting them.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Solar Energy Corporation is finding it difficult to find buyers at discovered prices because discoms expect the tariffs will continue to fall.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In addition, many discoms have already fulfilled the renewable energy obligations. Pooling tariffs could help speed up procurement of solar power.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) </strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Commitment made by all discoms to meet a minimum specified quantity of their requirements from renewable energy sources.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable Energy Bundling</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government is planning to bundle renewable energy with thermal power under existing PPAs so as to supply power to customers from their renewable energy projects.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The profits earned from bundling renewable energy will be shared between generators and discoms on a 50:50 basis.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Benefits</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bundling renewable energy and thermal energy will particularly benefit old thermal power projects which have become unviable due to high variable cost.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Currently, discoms pay fixed costs for such plants under existing PPAs, even if no power is procured from these plants.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Future plans </strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government plans to bundle 10,000 Megawatt of renewable energy with fossil fuel based power over the next 4-5 years.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Pooling</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Polling is an activity in which multiple owners provide their resources to be combined and used collectively as a single entity.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The JET laboratory in Britain has smashed the record in the amount of energy it can extract through nuclear fusion.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion in a controlled environment has been a work in progress since many years and its commercial use has not yet been obtained.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The recent experiment managed to produce 59 MJ of energy over five seconds. This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The JET is collaboration between EU member states, Switzerland, the UK and Ukraine, founded in 1978.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Significance of results</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The energy harvested is very less but it strengthens design choices that have been made for a bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The experiment demonstrated the greatest amount of energy output from the fusion reactions of any device in history.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>ITER facility</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is a project carried out in France by a consortium of countries such as the US, EU, Britain, China and also India.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion works on the principle that energy can be released by forcing together atomic nuclei.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This naturally happens on stars including the Sun, which give out energy through this process.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The fuel to produce the plasma will be a mix of two forms, or isotopes, of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Importance of nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Successful harvesting could lead to potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fusion reaction will produce no greenhouse gases and only very small amounts of short-lived radioactive waste.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Theoretically, a small glass of deuterium and tritium could power a house for hundreds of years. The fuels are also easily obtained.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The biggest challenge is to sustain the process and prevent it from extinguishing. There is also a need to reduce energy consumption.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A fire incident has occurred at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant due to a war between Russia and Ukraine.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days, resulting in damages to public infrastructure.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Reports have suggested that fire broke out in the administrative building. However, there were no signs of radiation.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>The plant</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear plant in Europe. It is located in Enerhodar city in the north-western part of Ukraine.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The plant consists of six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR) and has a total power output of 5,700 MWe.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It contributes a fifth of the electricity generated in Ukraine. Comparison wise, it is three times the size of Kudankulam nuclear power plant.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Damages </strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ukrainian officials have alleged that the plant has endured damages due to continuous attacks by Russia. If the plant blows, the damage will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The IAEA says that nuclear power plant and essential equipments are unaffected by the fire and background radiation is also normal.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Dangers involved</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The plant is unlikely to generate radioactivity like Chernobyl but there are problems associated due to old safety features.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The biggest risk is if fuel pond is hit by missiles. The safety of these repositories of spent fuel is not as robust as of the plant itself.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Kudankulam power plant</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Kudankulam nuclear power plant is located in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, consisting of six VVER-1000 reactors.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It is constructed through collaboration between Atomstroyexport, the Russian state company and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).</span></span></p>
</li>
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'id' => (int) 10256,
'title' => 'E-scooters catching fire',
'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Many incidents have been reported about two-wheeler electric scooters catching fire abruptly.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Electric scooter or e-scooters run on electric rechargeable batteries instead of petroleum fuel.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The electric vehicles (EV) mostly use Lithium-ion batteries as they are light and highly efficient compared to other varieties.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The same batteries are used in electronic devices such as cellphones and laptops. These batteries are also vulnerable to fire incidents.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Lithium-ion batteries</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are one of the most popular battery types today, powering millions of consumer electronics around the globe.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Battery structure</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is made up of anode, cathode, separator, electrolyte, and two current collectors. Lithium is stored in cathode and anode.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Working</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The movement of the lithium ions from the anode to the cathode and vice versa through the separator creates a charge at positive current collector.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Advantages</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Light weight</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">High energy density</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Rechargeable</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Longer lifespan</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">High energy density of these cells can become unstable in certain conditions, hampering functionality.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A battery management system (BMS) has to be applied to a Li-ion battery to make sure they operate safely.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In extreme high temperatures, the battery packs gets unstable and become extremely prone to catching fire.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reasons for fires</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The major reason is assumed to be short-circuit in battery cells. Even if a few cells malfunction and cause a short circuit, it can kick start a chain reaction resulting in a fire.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This process is termed as thermal runaway. It is the main reason why the battery burst into flames immediately.</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Effects of battery fires</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fire in batteries of electric vehicles can impact consumer shift towards electric mobility. There will be hesitation for buying electric vehicles.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There are fears that the ambitious electric migration plan will be delayed if such incidents keep happening.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Union minister of Transport Nitin Gadkari recently travelled to Parliament on a hydrogen-powered car.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The vehicle was Toyota Mirai, which has three hydrogen tanks, which can be refilled in about five minutes. It has a 1.24 kWh lithium ion battery pack powered by a 182 <a href="https://indianexpress.com/about/hp/">hp</a> electric motor.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The minister’s use of the vehicle is seen as a strong indication of shift in centre’s policy for exploring other mobility methods instead of conventional EVs.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Types of electric vehicles</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV), Battery-powered Electric Vehicle (BEV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are different types.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">FCEVs use hydrogen gas to power an on-board electric motor. They are considered EVs as they are completely powered by electricity.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Compared to BEV, they are different as they follow traditional fuelling process. The fuelling time is about five minutes compared to 35-40 minutes for BEVs.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The biggest benefit of FCEV is that it has five times better energy storage per unit volume. This allows rider to go farther.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>India’s policy on hydrogen vehicles</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government had announced plans to launch a comprehensive National Hydrogen Energy Mission.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A Hydrogen Energy Mission in 2021-22 was announced in budget for generating hydrogen from green power sources.</span></span></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A long term deal has been signed to form a Joint Venture (JV) company by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and ReNew Power (ReNew) to produce green hydrogen.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government had announced plans to launch a comprehensive National Hydrogen Energy Mission.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint venture company will aim to produce green hydrogen at an industrial scale. It is part of India’s mission to become hub for hydrogen energy.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint venture company has the research expertise of IOC, infrastructure expertise of L&T and renewable energy experience of ReNew to produce green hydrogen.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The guideline of the government says that National Hydrogen Mission will aim to increase production to 5 million metric tonnes (MMT) by 2030 to meet about 40 per cent of domestic requirements.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Hydrogen production in India</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The hydrogen currently produced in India is Grey hydrogen, which is obtained using natural gas and ammonia.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The green hydrogen will be produced from renewable energy through electrolysis of water. The government plans to substitute grey hydrogen by green hydrogen.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Measures to boost green hydrogen</strong></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme worth Rs 15,000 crore is being considered by the government for electrolysers.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A green hydrogen and green ammonia policy has been notified by the centre that promises to provide free power for 25 years to green hydrogen production plants set up before July 2025.</span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A new mandate is being planned by the government to ensure that oil refining, fertiliser and steel sectors procure green hydrogen for a certain proportion of their requirements. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Benefits of green hydrogen</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It reduces carbon emissions as byproduct of hydrogen fuel combustion is only water vapour. The production of hydrogen fuel is also through non-carbon renewable energy.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the prices of international and domestic coal are set to witness a sharp rise.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Power tariffs have witnessed rise on India Energy Exchange due to increase in input prices for power companies.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Domestic coal supply has already failed to cater to growing demands. High international coal prices are also affecting Indian power producers.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As domestic demand for locally produced coal increase, power cuts started as several thermal power plants ran out of coal stock.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The coal import dependency is likely to increase in the short term as demand and supply from domestic producers is not in sync.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Rise in international coal prices</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Russia is one of the largest coal suppliers and the war has led to disruptions from Russia. It is unlikely to be replaced by others anytime soon.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The price of Australian coal has hit an all-time high of about $330 per tonne. Australia long with Indonesia is one of the biggest sources for imported coal in India.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The spot price of domestic coal is also at all-time high due to increased demand. It is likely to increase further.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Way ahead</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The prices in global market will increase further unless Coal India is able to ramp up domestic coal production to match demand.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">To ensure adequate supply of coal to power stations of Tamil Nadu, the Chief Minister of the state wrote a letter to the Prime Minister.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Coal shortage has forced many power consuming states to import. Maharashtra and Gujarat have already planned to import.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Coal stocks have fallen below the critical mark of 25% across many thermal power stations in the country.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The coal ministry however said that 72.5 million tonnes of coal was available in the country, which can last over a month.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Coal shortages</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">About 55% of the country’s energy needs are fulfilled by coal. The use of coal has doubled since 2000.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The disruptions due to pandemic caused supply shortages. It was accentuated due to stoppage in mining activities as a result of monsoon.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The summer months have created demand for power in households. Economic activity has also suddenly picked up, causing demands-supply mismatch.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The demand is expected to grow further as urbanization and population increases. By 2040, demand will grow by 5%.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Coal consumption in India</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Coal powered thermal plants are most viable energy producer due to lower capital costs as compared to hydro-power and nuclear power.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is also a most preferred option for private sector companies involved in power generation business.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable energy resources in India</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">By 2029-30, it is estimated that the share of renewable energy in the gross electricity generation will be around 40%.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Total renewable energy capacity installed in the country is 152.9 GW. Out of this, solar energy is the biggest constituent.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Capacity of plant does not translate into actual power for the grid. Heat loss or transmission loss causes losses.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">They also suffer from variability due to season and weather. Solar energy is not feasible during monsoons.</span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Solar and wind energy are not suitable for all regions of the country. In some states, they are in abundance but in other they are not.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable energy adoption</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The condition and working of grids are suitable for thermal power stations and not erratic solar and wind energy.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The disruptions due to pandemic caused supply shortages. It was accentuated due to stoppage in mining activities as a result of monsoon.</span></span></p>
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It was singed during official state visit of Argentinean President Mauricio Macri to India.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">MoU for civil nuclear cooperation</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It was signed between Department of Atomic Energy (DEA) and National Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Cooperation under it is within framework of Global Center for Nuclear Energy Partnership. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will bolster institutional linkages in civil nuclear research, development and capacity building between both countries.</span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Background</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">India and Argentina had signed an agreement in 2010 for cooperation in peaceful use of nuclear energy. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Both countries are enhancing and exploring cooperative ventures in the area of nuclear power and its societal uses in the fields of health, agriculture, industrial application, training and capacity building.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Argentina has expertise in building small-capacity nuclear reactors and was looking to work with India in some third country in tripartite projects.</span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Argentine company INVAP is already working on Fission Molly Project to build molybdenum plant in Mumbai, Maharashtra. </span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">This project envisages setting up plant for creating isotopes. 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It is claimed to world's first such breakthrough that could transform approach to carbon capture and storage. Prior to this technique, CO2 was only transformed into coal at extremely high temperatures, making it industrially unviable.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">How this technique works?</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">CO2 is mixed electrolyte liquid consisting of specially designed liquid metal catalyst with specific surface properties (efficient electricity conductor with chemically activating surface) and small amount of liquid metal, which is then charged with electrical current. CO2 slowly converts into solid flakes of carbon, which are naturally detached from liquid metal surface, allowing continuous production of carbonaceous solid.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Benefits</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">This process is efficient and scalable. It can help in rewinding emissions clock. Carbon produced by this technique also can be used as electrode. It can be used as supercapacitor as it can also hold electrical charge and potentially be used as component in future vehicles. 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This bio-ATF derived from edible oil can be blended with conventional ATF and used as aircraft fuel. 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It has now set platform for commercial use of this technology.</span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Significance </span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Reduce re-use of cooking oil in food industry will have positive public health outcomes.</span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">Moreover, its conversion into Bio-ATF will help aviation sector reduce its carbon footprint.</span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">It will also help to Indian AirForce (IAF) and civil aviation sector to save fuel bill. </span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">RUCO initiative</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">The test of converting used cooking oil into Bio-ATF assumes importance as Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched Repurpose Cooking Oil (RUCO) initiative to collect and convert used cooking oil into bio-fuel. </span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand",serif">FSSAI has identified as many as 64 companies in 101 locations across the country for RUCO initiative. 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They are being built as part of Russia’s sole purpose of renewing and expanding its fleet of the vessels in order to improve its ability to tap Arctic’s commercial potential, what it calls the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to make it navigable throughout year. </span></span></span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'ural-russia-nuclear-powered-icebreaker', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ba85/esz27jgnyunbnb96g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ba85/esz27jgnyunbnb96g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Ural: Russia launches nuclear-powered icebreaker', 'metakeyword' => 'Russia has launched nuclear-powered icebreaker named Ural as part of an ambitious programme to improve its ability to tap Arctic’s commercial potential', 'metadescription' => 'Russia has launched nuclear-powered icebreaker named Ural as part of an ambitious programme to improve its ability to tap Arctic’s commercial potential', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/pd6b323sp9k56h5/Ural.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 1612, 'title' => '2 Units of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station inaugurated', 'description' => '<h2 style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated 5th and 6th Units (each having 660 MW capacity) of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station in Chhabra block, Baran district of state. 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They have efficiency of about 32%.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Benefits of SC power plants:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> They require less coal per megawatt-hour, higher efficiency (above 45%), lower fuel costs per megawatt and emits lower emissions (including carbon dioxide and mercury).</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'chabra-super-critical-thermal-power-station', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c370/563b65v1ufd60da6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c370/563b65v1ufd60da6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => '2 Units of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station', 'metakeyword' => 'Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated 5th and 6th Units each having 660 MW capacity of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station', 'metadescription' => 'Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated 5th and 6th Units each having 660 MW capacity of Chabra Super Critical Thermal Power Station', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/i6tr9e166p4y6cy/2_Units_of_Chabra_Super_Critical_Thermal_Power_Station_inaugurated.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 1628, 'title' => 'NITI Aayog proposes setting up Lithium-ion Giga Factories', 'description' => '<h2 style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">NITI Aayog has proposed the establishment of giga factories in India for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries in the next couple of years. The proposal is part of NITI Aayog’s push for the adoption of electric mobility in the country. </span></span></span></span></h2> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">NITI Aayog’s Proposal</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It recently had proposed that only electric (lithium-ion or other advanced battery chemistry only) three-wheelers will be sold in the country after March 31, 2023, and only electric two-wheelers below 150cc will be sold after March 31, 2025.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Industry opposition:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> However, this debated proposal to stop selling ICE (internal combustion engine) 150cc two-wheelers was strongly opposed by two-wheeler industry, cautioning that this move would disrupt the industry that was already reeling under stress. Industry has termed this proposal impractical and also pointed out that batteries, which were crucial part of electric vehicles, were expensive and not made in India.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Arguments for Lithium-Ion Giga Factories: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> NITI Aayog held that this is sunrise industry and India needs to start building capabilities to become globally competitive player in this area. Current lack of domestic capability in this sector will cause massive imports from China for e-vehicles as is the case in electronics.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Li-Ion battery</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is type of rechargeable battery that contains several cells. Each cell consists of cathode, anode and electrolyte, separator or chemical called an electrolyte in </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">between electrodes and current collectors.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Its positive electrode is typically made from chemical compound called lithium-cobalt oxide </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">(LiCoO2) or lately lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is used. </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">The negative electrode is generally made from carbon (graphite) and electrolyte varies from on</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">e type of battery to another.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">In this battery, lithium ions move from positive electrode to negative electrode during charging and </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">negative electrode to positive electrode during discharge.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Working</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During charging of battery:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> LiCoO2, positive electrode gives up some of its lithium ions, which move </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">through electrolyte to negative, graphite electrode and remain there.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> The battery takes in and stores this electrical energy produced due to moving cha</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">rge during this</span></span> <span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">process.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During discharging of battery:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> Lithium ions move back across electrolyte to positive electrode, </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">producing energy that powers battery.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Benefits of Li-Ion battery</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is light weighted and is one-third weight of widely used lead a</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">cid batteries.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is nearly 100</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> efficient in both charging and discharging operations as compared to lead batteries </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">which have 70% efficiency.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It completely discharges i.e. 100</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> as compared to 80</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">%</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> discharge rate for lead acid batteries.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It has life </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">cycle of 5000 times or more compared lead acid batteries which have just 400-500 cycles.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">During discharging cycle, it maintains constant voltage throughout whereas voltage in lead acid </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">battery drops consistently during discharge cycle.</span></span></span></span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It does not have</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif""> any adversarial environmental impact as lead acid battery, making much cleaner technology and is safer for environment. </span></span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'niti-ayog-lithium-ion-giga-factories', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b3a0/dsos8h83h4a575c6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 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1782, 'title' => 'BARC’s radiation technology for sewage treatment', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) developed radiation technology for sewage treatment using Co-60 (Cobalt-60). It has set up Technology Demonstration Pilot Project Sewage Sludge Hygienisation Plant at Shahwadi, Ahmedabad in collaboration with Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Ahmedabad. This plant loaded with 150 kCi of Co-60 and is in continuous operation since inauguration in February 2019. Besides this recent deployment of radiation technology for sewage treatment, BARC since last 30 years has deployed another liquid sludge irradiator called Sludge Hygienisation Research Irradiator (SHRI) is at Vadodara for radiation treatment of raw sludge containing 3-4% solids.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">About Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It is India's premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research facility. It is located in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It was established in 1954 as Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET). It was renamed to present name after Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, father of Indian nuclear programme and founder of AEET.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">Its core mandate is to sustain peaceful applications of nuclear energy, primarily for power generation.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It serves as multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering entire spectrum of nuclear science, engineering and related areas.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Quicksand","serif"">It operates number of research reactors across the country. It also serves as India's main nuclear weapons fuel lab.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'barc-radiation-technology-sewage-treatment', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1e28/doz758x0uzgoaky6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1e28/doz758x0uzgoaky6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'BARC’s radiation technology for sewage treatment', 'metakeyword' => 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) developed radiation technology for sewage treatment using Co-60 (Cobalt-60). It has set up Technology Demonstration ', 'metadescription' => 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) developed radiation technology for sewage treatment using Co-60 (Cobalt-60). It has set up Technology Demonstration ', 'author' => 'Nikhil Paigude', 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/mibauevey5smrct/BARC%C6s_radiation_technology.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 7 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 1956, 'title' => 'IIT H researchers use sugar to produce bio fuel precursor', 'description' => '<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issue</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Researchers at IIT Hyderabad have developed a simple and innovative method to synthesize a catalyst that can convert chemicals derived from biomass into a precursor to diesel and jet fuel.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary processes from biomass, rather than a fuel produced by the very slow geological processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Biofuels can be produced from plants (energy crops), or from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Details</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Catalyst showed better efficiency and selectivity than commercial catalysts to produce C15 oxygenated hydrocarbon, a biofuel precursor.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The researchers described the process that can produce carbon catalysts at room temperatures using sugar, sulphuric acid and salt. The dehydration of sugar by concentrated sulfuric acid is a simple chemical process. But the intense heat released is not well-controlled.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In order to control the exothermic dehydration of sugar, the researchers add common salt. Salt helps in controlled dehydration of sugar, which leads to formation of the desired carbon nanoplates.</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Low cost of precursors with practically zero energy input and simplicity of reaction has made this process of producing carbon nanoplates to be easily adapted for large-scale commercial production.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Importance of Discovery</span></span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This development is important for States such as Uttar Pradesh and the two Telugu states which are the largest producers of corn in India. </span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The large amount of corncob waste can now be converted into fuels and allow additional income for farmers of corn, provide a sustainable energy source and reduce carbon footprint in the automobile/ aviation sector.</span></span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'iit-h-researchers-use-sugar', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ae0b/b5tmxcfvmvuoxk46g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ae0b/b5tmxcfvmvuoxk46g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'IIT H researchers use sugar to produce bio fuel precursor', 'metakeyword' => 'IIT H researchers use sugar, produce bio fuel precursor', 'metadescription' => 'Researchers at IIT Hyderabad have developed a simple and innovative method to synthesize a catalyst that can convert chemicals derived from biomass', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/afuwiqv5oy576db/IIT_H_researchers_use_sugar_to_produce_bio_fuel_precursor.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 8 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 2068, 'title' => 'Kum kum dye for eco-friendly solar cells', 'description' => '<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Issue</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IIT-Hyderabad researchers recently developed a dye-sensitised solar cell based on New Fuchsin dye. The product is cheap and eco-friendly as it leaves very less carbon footprint.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Background</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC, DSC, DYSC or Grätzel cell) is a low-cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells. It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte, a </span></span><em><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">photoelectrochemical</span></span></em><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> system.</span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Details</span></span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Most familiar solar cells today are made up of silicon and can be seen in the various overhead panels and other places but this technology is limited by huge fabrication costs as silicon processing is very expensive and involves very high temperature methods that leave a large carbon footprint.</span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) is based on New Fuchsin (NF) dye with aqueous electrolyte and platinum-free counter electrodes, </span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The new dye developed is cheap, non-toxic and is soluble in water and importantly does not degrade in the presence of water.</span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The development ‘Low cost ‘green’ dye sensitized solar cells is based on New Fuchsin dye with aqueous electrolyte and platinum-free counter electrodes. Inexpensive material for the completed solar cell is a conductive carbon fabric. </span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="color:black">These liquid-electrolytes come with various drawbacks such as high vapour pressure, toxicity and sometimes explosives resulting in severe environmental impact in addition to being corrosive to the platinum counter-electrodes, thereby limiting long-time stability of the devices. </span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'kum-kum-dye-for-eco-friendly-solar-cells', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5c78/l65jl6u1i43y5ri6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5c78/l65jl6u1i43y5ri6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Kum kum dye for eco-friendly solar cells', 'metakeyword' => 'Kum kum dye for eco-friendly solar cells', 'metadescription' => 'IIT-Hyderabad researchers recently developed a dye-sensitised solar cell based on New Fuchsin dye. The product is cheap and eco-friendly as it leaves very', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/yo2uktqbt98g7ib/Kum_kum_dye_for_eco-friendly_solar_cells.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 9 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 2108, 'title' => 'Ethanol solution to sugar problem', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Issue</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government approved an increase in the price of ethanol to be procured by public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) from sugar mills for blending with petrol for the 2019-20 supply year from December 1.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Background</span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This comes at a time when a surplus of sugar production is depressing sugar price. Consequently, sugarcane farmer's dues have increased due to the lower capability of the sugar industry to pay the farmers.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Details</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) also allowed conversion of old sugar into ethanol, which is expected to help mills deal with the current overproduction in the sweetener and make timely payments to farmers for the cane delivered by them.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Given the surplus sugar production in the country, government has allowed mills to produce ethanol from ‘B’ heavy molasses and directly from sugarcane juice.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The CCEA approved even use of sugar and sugar syrup for production of ethanol. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Effects of the move</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Increased ethanol blending in petrol is expected to replace 2 million tonnes of oil annually, helping save $1 billion in import bill.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These decisions will help in further increasing the ethanol blend levels from the current 6% average levels.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ethanol fermentation</span></strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ethanol fermentation, also called alcoholic fermentation, is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_process" title="Biological process">biological process</a> which converts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugars</a> such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose" title="Glucose">glucose</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose" title="Fructose">fructose</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose" title="Sucrose">sucrose</a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate" title="Adenosine triphosphate">cellular energy</a>, producing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol" title="Ethanol">ethanol</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide">carbon dioxide</a> as by-products.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ethanol fermentation has many uses, including the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage">alcoholic beverages</a>, the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel" title="Ethanol fuel">ethanol fuel</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a> cooking.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'ethanol-solution-to-sugar-problem', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/84b8/eoogbow30izpioc6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/84b8/eoogbow30izpioc6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Ethanol solution to sugar problem', 'metakeyword' => 'Ethanol solution to sugar problem', 'metadescription' => 'The government approved an increase in the price of ethanol to be procured by public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) from sugar mills', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/9oz2mc5fikzewjw/Ethanol_solution_to_sugar_problem.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 10 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 2391, 'title' => 'Green energy targets', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared at New York last week that India would be aiming to increase its renewable energy target to 450 GW (gigawatts).</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the threat of global warming has become eminent, the authorities have been planning to reduce the effects by making the transition towards sustainable sources including renewable energy such as solar, wind etc. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India’s plan for installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022 was first announced in 2015. Of this, 100 GW was to be from solar power, and so far about 80 GW has been installed.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As per India's submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), a cumulative electric power capacity of 40 per cent from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources is to be installed by 2030.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy in India</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is running one of the largest and most ambitious renewable capacity expansion programs in the world. In 2019 at UN climate summit, PM Modi announced that India will be more than doubling its renewable energy target from 175GW by 2022 to 450GW of renewable energy by the same year.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is one of the countries with the largest production of energy from renewable sources. In the electricity sector, renewable energy account for 34.6% of the total installed power capacity.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Various sources</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hydropower</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> is the 7th largest producer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric power</a> in the world. As of April 2017, India's installed utility-scale hydroelectric capacity was 44,594 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt" title="Watt">MW</a>, or 13.5% of its total utility power generation capacity.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Wind Power</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> The installed capacity of wind power in India was 34,293 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatts" title="Megawatts">MW</a>, mainly spread across <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a> (2,784.90 MW), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradesh" title="Madhya Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</a> .</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Wind power accounts for 10% of India's total installed power capacity.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Bio mass</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> It is estimated that the potential for biomass energy in India includes 16,000 MW from biomass energy and a further 3,500 MW from bagasse cogeneration.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'green-energy-targets', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ea9f/tv7673458c3pul56g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ea9f/tv7673458c3pul56g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Green energy targets', 'metakeyword' => 'Green energy targets', 'metadescription' => 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared at New York last week that India would be aiming to increase its renewable energy target to 450 GW (gigawatts).', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/k3nitsjriicqyof/Green_energy_targets.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 11 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 2555, 'title' => 'Microbial fuel cells', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the London Zoo, a fern has started taking its own selfies through a camera powered by its own energy. This was achieved by installing microbial fuel cells in the plant.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Microbial fuel cells are devices that use bacteria as the catalysts to oxidise organic and inorganic matter and generate current.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><img alt="Plant_Microbial_Fuel_Cell.png" 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Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for working towards the development of practical lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the heart of electronic technology revolution lies a very important problem of longetivity of devices. Any portable device need powering source that can keep it working. Lithium-ion batteries made that possible.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Theory</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Chemical batteries consist of two electrodes between which electrons flow and generate a current.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The challenge of such batteries is to choose appropriate electrodes and electrolyte, which mediates the current, and generate sufficient current safely at room temperature without occupying too much space.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Lithium-ion batteries</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When the battery is charging up, the lithium-cobalt oxide, positive electrode gives up some of its lithium ions, which move through the electrolyte to the negative, graphite electrode and remain there.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The battery takes in and stores energy during this process. When the battery is discharging, the lithium ions move back across the electrolyte to the positive electrode, producing the energy that powers the battery.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In both cases, electrons flow in the opposite direction to the ions around the outer circuit.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Benefits</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lithium ion batteries are more reliable than older technologies such as nickel-cadmium and don't suffer from a problem known as the "memory effect" (where batteries appear to become harder to charge unless they're discharged fully first).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since lithium-ion batteries don't contain cadmium better for the environment.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Compared to heavy-duty rechargeable batteries such as lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion batteries are relatively light for the amount of energy they store.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Drawbacks</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Li-ion batteries will catch fire if they're overcharged or if an internal malfunction causes a short circuit.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'li-ion-batteries', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f42a/vgqyxlm4i4fiux06g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f42a/vgqyxlm4i4fiux06g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Li-ion batteries ', 'metakeyword' => 'Compared to heavy-duty rechargeable batteries such ', 'metadescription' => 'Compared to heavy-duty rechargeable batteries such as lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion batteries are relatively light for the amount of energy they store.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/rwvlggckg06bom5/Li-ion_batteries.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 13 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 2654, 'title' => 'Quantum materials for clean energy', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers from IIT Bombay have discovered special properties in a class of materials called “semi-Dirac metals” which can be utilised for producing clean energy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A quantum material is a label that has come to signify the area of condensed-matter physics formerly known as strongly correlated electronic systems. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Although the field is broad, a unifying theme is the discovery and investigation of materials whose electronic properties cannot be understood with concepts from contemporary condensed-matter textbooks.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Results in the study show a very high optical conductivity of semi-Dirac materials for electromagnetic waves [light waves] of a specific frequency and specific polarisation.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Normal metals like gold and silver are good conductors of electricity. A key aspect that decides the quality of conduction is the way energy depends on the momentum of electrons.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dirac metals differ from normal metals in that the energy depends linearly on the momentum. This difference is responsible for their unique properties.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Semi-Dirac metals behave like Dirac metals in one direction and like normal metals in the perpendicular directions (since their microscopic structure is different along the two directions).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Within any material, charge carriers, such as electrons, acquire an effective mass which is different from their bare mass depending on the nature of the material. The effective mass and the number of states available for the electron to occupy when it is excited by an electric field, determine the conductivity and other such properties.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With the advent of man-made 2D materials, such properties have become quite tailor able in what comprises the active field of quantum materials. The velocities can be over a100 times more than normal metals, thus increasing the mobility and currents that can be carried across devices made of these so-called Dirac materials.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The semi-dirac materials are capable of producing Thermoelectricity. Thermoelectricity is a clean energy technology that uses waste heat to produce electricity typically in low power applications.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Semi-Dirac</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Semi-Dirac metals are systems such as TiO2/V2O3 nanostructures. Through calculations, the researchers have shown that such materials would be transparent to light of a given frequency and polarisation when it is incident along a particular direction. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The material would be opaque to the same light when it falls on it from a different direction. There are many known applications for transparent conducting films, the common example being touch screens used in mobiles.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'quantum-materials-for-clean-energy', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5ebb/69qy82u7fv1db3h6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5ebb/69qy82u7fv1db3h6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Quantum materials for clean energy', 'metakeyword' => 'Quantum materials for clean energy', 'metadescription' => 'Researchers from IIT Bombay have discovered special properties in a class of materials called “semi-Dirac metals” which can be utilised for producing clean energy.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/row0nvgujq4wnmb/Quantum_materials_for_clean_energy.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 14 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 3096, 'title' => 'Hydrogen fuel in automobiles', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Japan is gearing up to put on its roads thousands of vehicles based on a hydrogen cell technology, also known as ‘fuel cells’, ahead of Tokyo Olympics.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Japan’s lead in the practical application of the hydrogen fuel cycle, and the ongoing research in this field at the International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy are being studied closely by the Indian government as it readies a hydrogen-fuelled blueprint.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">At the heart of the fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) is a device that uses a source of fuel, such as hydrogen, and an oxidant to create electricity by an electrochemical process. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen to generate an electric current, water being the only byproduct. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Like conventional batteries under the bonnets of automobiles, hydrogen fuel cells too convert chemical energy into electrical energy. From a long-term viability perspective, FCEVs are billed as vehicles of the future, given that hydrogen is the most abundant resource in the universe.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical process, unlike a battery-electricity vehicle, it does not store energy and, instead, relies on a constant supply of fuel and oxygen in the same way that an internal combustion engine relies on a constant supply of petrol or diesel, and oxygen.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">But unlike the combustion engine cars, there are no moving parts in the fuel cell, so they are more efficient and reliable by comparison.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The successful development of hydrogen would provide energy for transportation and electric power and advantage is the wide availability of resources for producing hydrogen.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Advantages of Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV)</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fuel cells have strong advantages over conventional combustion-based technologies currently used in many power plants and cars, given that they produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases and none of the air pollutants that cause health problems.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Such cells are also far more energy efficient than traditional combustion technologies.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unlike battery-powered electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles do not need to be plugged in, and most models exceed 300 km of range on a full tank. They are filled up with a nozzle, just like in a petrol or diesel station.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There are questions of safety as hydrogen is more explosive than petrol.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The process of making hydrogen needs energy , often from fossil fuel sources. That has raised questions over hydrogen’s green credentials.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The other major hurdle is that the vehicles are expensive, and fuel dispensing pumps are scarce.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Way ahead</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In India, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, under its Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) programme, has been supporting various such projects in academic institutions, research and development organisations and industry for development.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Ministry of Science and Technology has supported two networked centres on hydrogen storage led by IIT Bombay and Nonferrous Materials Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'hydrogen-fuel-in-automobiles', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/94fc/sz07d4xaemf53gs6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/94fc/sz07d4xaemf53gs6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Hydrogen fuel in automobiles', 'metakeyword' => 'Hydrogen fuel in automobiles', 'metadescription' => 'Japan is gearing up to put on its roads thousands of vehicles based on a hydrogen cell technology, also known as ‘fuel cells’, ahead of Tokyo Olympics.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/if2kensxvpm3lc4/Hydrogen_fuel_in_automobiles.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 15 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 3181, 'title' => '‘Core catcher’ installed in Kudankulam nuclear power plant', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Moscow-based Rosatom State Corporation Engineering Division has installed a core melt localisation device (CMLD) or “core catcher” at Unit 3 of Tamil Nadu’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP).</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kudankulam, is India’s first nuclear plant to use imported PWR technology.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device is designed to localise and cool the molten core material in case of a meltdown accident.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Core Catcher</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher is a cone shaped metal structure that weighs about 800 tonnes. The structure is double walled, with the gap between the two walls filled with FAOG (ferric and aluminium oxide granules). </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher is filled with a ceramic mixture also including ferric oxide and aluminium oxide, called ‘<strong>sacrificial</strong> <strong>material’</strong>.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sacrificial material prevents the corium from trickling through and also acts as a cooling mechanism.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Molten core material, or corium, is lava-like material that gets formed in the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a meltdown accident. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Such an accident occurs when the nuclear fission reaction taking place inside a reactor is not sufficiently cooled, and the buildup of heat causes fuel rods to melt down. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The corium so formed can remain radioactive for several decades, even centuries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The core catcher device is installed at the bottom of the nuclear station’s protective shell, and is designed to save the latter as well as exude radioactive emission in the environment in case of a serious accident.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device has improved seismic resistance, hydro-dynamic and shock strength as well as equipped with flood protection and simplified installation and assembly technology.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left:40px"><span 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stagnant water in households. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The decentralised energy model involves a large number of small generation devices that can generate energy in every household and the excess energy thus produced can be evacuated to energy-deficient areas nearby.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team employed “electro-kinetic streaming potential” to harvest energy from flowing tap water and “contrasting inter-facial activities” employing different types of semiconducting materials to generate power from stagnant water.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When fluids stream through tiny channels that are charged, they can generate an electrical voltage, which may be harnessed through miniaturised generators.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team also fabricated devices with doped graphene flakes for generating power by dipping in a bucket of water or any stagnant water source to “complementary charge transfer activities”.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Water stored in buckets and water flowing from taps can potentially be used to produce energy if such nano-generators can be developed further.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 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=> (int) 3352, 'title' => 'Room temperature sodium sulphur battery', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers at the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Madras have designed a new sodium sulphur battery that can be operated at room temperature.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventional sodium sulphur batteries require very high temperature (300 degree C) for operation.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">By operating the battery at room temperature, the team was able to achieve higher charge storage capacity (technically called the specific capacity) and nearly zero self-discharge when the battery is not being used.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The battery also showed 83% retention of capacity even at the end of 500 cycles of charging and discharging. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The first step that the team took to operate the battery at room temperature was by changing the electrolyte used.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventionally, sodium sulphur batteries use a solid electrolyte (sodium beta alumina), which by default reduces the diffusion of sodium ions from the anode to the cathode at room temperature. It is to increase the diffusion of sodium ions that the temperature is raised to about 300 degree C.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In place of a solid electrolyte the researchers used a glass fibre separator soaked in ether-based electrolyte that allows the battery to be operated at room temperature.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Changing the electrolyte alone is not sufficient to improve battery performance as there are other problems with sodium sulphur batteries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The first problem is that with increasing amount of polysuphides getting dissolved into the electrolyte, there is a net loss in the cathode sulphur. In addition, the dissolved polysuphides move towards the anode and form a coating over it. This reduces the performance of the battery.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To address the problem, the team added a shielding layer very close to the cathode. The shielding layer is made of white graphite mixed in a polymer matrix.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The polymer allows the sodium ions to pass through while the white graphite added to the polymer matrix prevents the migration of polysuphides to the anode.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since the migration of the polysuphides to the sodium anode is prevented by the shielding layer, self-discharge of the battery is significantly reduced.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While conductive carbons are added to the sulphur to make it electrically conductive in conventional sulphur batteries, the researchers used partially exfoliated multiwalled carbon nanotubes.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'room-temperature-sodium-sulphur-battery', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2240/on8mjg73gk3jfp06g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2240/on8mjg73gk3jfp06g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Room temperature sodium sulphur battery', 'metakeyword' => 'Room temperature sodium sulphur battery', 'metadescription' => 'Researchers at the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Madras have designed a new sodium sulphur battery that can be operated at room temperature.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/qg3q0njafh0f1r1/Room_temperature_sodium_sulphur_battery.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 18 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4047, 'title' => 'New kind of light that breaks limits of natural law', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new study presents a material that emits light when heated that appears to exceed the limits set by that natural law. Researchers were wondering if there is a new light in the world that breaks hitherto known laws of nature.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to Planck’s Law, no material can emit more radiation than an idealised material ‘blackbody’ that absorbs energy perfectly.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. Increasing heat causes all materials to emit more intense radiation, with the peak of the emitted spectrum shifting to longer wavelengths as heat rises.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new material defies the convention set by Planck’s law, emitting light that is coherent, similar to that produced by lasers or LEDs. The difference is that it doesn’t need the costly structure needed to produce the stimulated emission of those technologies.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers demonstrated ‘Super-Planckian’ material, which showed a spike in radiation at about 1.7 microns, which is the near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They believe the light is coming from within the crystal, which has so many planes within the structure, so many surfaces acting as oscillators, so much excitation, that it behaves almost like an artificial laser material.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The new material could find applications in optical physics, energy harvesting, military infrared-based object tracking and identification.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'new-kind-of-light-that-breaks-limits-of-natural-law', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ecb0/3jirdcwnsp6bvjg6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ecb0/3jirdcwnsp6bvjg6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'New kind of light that breaks limits of natural law', 'metakeyword' => 'New kind of light that breaks limits of natural law', 'metadescription' => 'A new study presents a material that emits light when heated that appears to exceed the limits set by that natural law. Researchers were wondering', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/xayh19mvce1yj67/4.New_kind_of_light_that_breaks_limits_of_natural_law.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 19 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4116, 'title' => 'Hybrid reactor that turns CO2 into useful molecules', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers have been working on a hybrid system that creates the building blocks for organic molecules by capturing the energy of sunlight. And this system works by combining bacteria and nanowires.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We can’t ship packages between Mars and Earth back on forth: one, that would be extremely expensive; two, it is not sustainable. So it is necessary for us to have a plan to produce most items locally.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nanowires are incredibly thin silicon wires that are about a hundredth of the width of a human hair. They are used as electronic components, sensors, and solar cells.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In order to work it, we only need sunlight and water, which Mars has plenty on its vast surfaces in frozen form.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The left side of the reactor is the chamber which contains the nanowire-bacteria hybrid that reduces CO<sub>2</sub> to form acetate. Oxygen is produced on the right side.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team first demonstrated the nanowire-bacteria hybrid reactor five years ago; however, the solar conversion efficiency was only about 0.4%. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Top efficiency is achieved by operating at the optimal acidity for bacteria, which gave more efficient conversion of solar energy to carbon bonds. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The silicon nanowires are essentially like an antenna: They capture the solar photon just like a solar panel. Within these silicon nanowires, they will generate electrons and feed them to these bacteria. Then the bacteria absorb CO<sub>2</sub>, and spit out acetate.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The biohybrid can pull carbon dioxide from the air on Earth to make organic compounds. We can almost think of this as planting new trees. While producing energy, it helps with climate change too. It brings a good deal for everyone involved.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'hybrid-reactor-that-turns-co2-into-useful-molecules', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5e11/pzah7eq2k1i6kbh6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5e11/pzah7eq2k1i6kbh6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Hybrid reactor that turns CO2 into useful molecules', 'metakeyword' => 'Hybrid reactor that turns CO2 into useful molecules', 'metadescription' => 'Researchers have been working on a hybrid system that creates the building blocks for organic molecules by capturing the energy of sunlight. And this system works', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/s17uc4pi8qh6xfs/5.Hybrid_reactor_that_turns_CO2.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 20 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4325, 'title' => 'Purple bacteria may help in harvesting green fuel from wastewater', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Purple bacteria, which store energy from light, can help harvest hydrogen fuel from sewage, and recover carbon from any type of organic waste.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Organic compounds in household sewage and industrial wastewater are a rich potential source of energy, bioplastics and even proteins for animal feed -- but with no efficient extraction method, treatment plants discard them as contaminants.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study is the first to show that supplying electric current to purple phototrophic bacteria can recover nearly 100 per cent of carbon from any type of organic waste, while generating hydrogen gas for electricity production.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria are extremely versatile thanks to their complex metabolic system that involves major carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and iron pathways, catalysed by various enzymes, he says. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They absorb infrared energy through their photosystem, which is composed of carotenoids and bacteriochlorophylls. This means that they can be used to extract valuable products, such as biofuels like biohydrogen, bioplastics like PHA and even single-cell proteins, from waste sources.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria capture energy from sunlight using a variety of pigments, which turn them shades of orange, red or brown -- as well as purple.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Purple phototrophic bacteria make an ideal tool for resource recovery from organic waste, thanks to their highly diverse metabolism.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The bacteria can use organic molecules and nitrogen gas -- instead of carbon dioxide and water -- to provide carbon, electrons and nitrogen for photosynthesis.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This means that they grow faster than alternative phototrophic bacteria and algae, and can generate hydrogen gas, proteins or a type of biodegradable polyester as byproducts of metabolism.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers analysed the optimum conditions for maximising hydrogen production by a mixture of purple phototrophic bacteria species.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They also tested the effect of a negative current -- The first key finding was that the nutrient blend that fed the highest rate of hydrogen production also minimised the production of CO2.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This demonstrates that purple bacteria can be used to recover valuable biofuel from organics typically found in wastewater -- malic acid and sodium glutamate -- with a low carbon footprint, that is, electrons supplied by metal electrodes in the growth medium -- on the metabolic behaviour of the bacteria.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'purple-bacteria-may-help-in-harvesting-green-fuel-from-wastewater', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d053/rm6yqnidimwt9jo6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d053/rm6yqnidimwt9jo6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Purple bacteria may help in harvesting green fuel from wastewater', 'metakeyword' => 'Purple bacteria may help in harvesting green fuel from wastewater', 'metadescription' => ' Purple bacteria, which store energy from light, can help harvest hydrogen fuel from sewage, and recover carbon from any type of organic waste.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/ye7on3df0o2j5sm/3.Purple_bacteria_may_help.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 21 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4375, 'title' => 'Generating hydrogen from water using yeast', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists have developed a new low-cost catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using waste-yeast biomass.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yeast biomass-derived materials can help develop efficient, eco-friendly and economic catalysts to improve the sustainability of hydrogen production.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is the cleanest primary energy source on earth. One way of producing environmentally-friendly hydrogen is via the electrolysis of water. However, such method needed noble-metal-based catalysts, such as platinum (Pt) for the HER and Iridium (Ir) for the OER. However, these catalysts are typically rare, expensive, and less durable.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists focused on the squander yeast biomass, as catalyst material that will improve oxygen and hydrogen generation, while replacing the noble metal catalysts, for example, Pt or Ir. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As yeast is a living organism, it is wealthy in substances, for example, carbon (C), phosphorus (P), sulphur (S), and nitrogen (N).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the study, the research team has created two catalysts that promote the generation of both hydrogen and oxygen, using waste yeast as catalyst support. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They reported hydrogen and oxygen production in 1 M potassium hydroxide using ruthenium single atoms (RuSAs) along with Ru nanoparticles (RuNPs) embedded in MHC (RuSAs + RuNPs@MHC) as a cathode and magnetite (Fe3O4) supported on MHC (Fe3O4@MHC) as an anode.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Compared to coal and oil, waste yeast is eco-friendly, inexpensive, and readily available biomass, and the results of the study suggest a new application of waste yeast biomass.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'generating-hydrogen-from-water-using-yeast', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/50ca/fbt5orr69b4h1gz6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/50ca/fbt5orr69b4h1gz6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Generating hydrogen from water using yeast', 'metakeyword' => 'Generating hydrogen from water using yeast', 'metadescription' => 'Scientists have developed a new low-cost catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using waste-yeast biomass.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/bwj9f0udsbd7far/3.Generating_hydrogen_from_water_using_yeast.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 22 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4383, 'title' => 'Scientists to make use of AI to solve nuclear fusion problem', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists believe the world will see its first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That’s a tall order in short form, especially when you consider that fusion has been here for nearly a century.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fusion reactors are the holiest of Grails when it comes to physics achievements. According to most experts, a successful fusion reactor would function as a near-unlimited source of energy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">TAE, one of the companies working on the fusion problem, says the big difference-maker now is machine learning. According to a report from Forbes, Google’s been helping TAE come up with modern solutions to decades-old math problems by using novel AI systems to facilitate the discovery of new fusion techniques.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fusion occurs naturally in stars such as our sun, but recreating the sun’s conditions on Earth is simply not possible with our current technology.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sun is much more massive than the Earth, and that mass comes with the fusion-friendly benefit of increased gravity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All that extra gravity smashes the sun’s atoms into one another. The combination of pressure and heat force hydrogen atoms to fuse together, thus becoming helium atoms. This results in the expulsion of energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unfortunately all the current terrestrial attempts at fusion have come up short because, though many have been successful at fusing atoms, they always take more energy to produce the temperatures required to fuse atoms on Earth than said atoms produce in the process.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The entry of AI and machine learning has made things interesting. By giving physicists “super human” analysis abilities, they can turn around experiments faster. This enables quicker iterations and more meaningful results.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nuclear Fusion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons). </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the release or absorption of energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A fusion process that produces nuclei lighter than iron-56 or nickel-62 will generally release energy. 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However, fossil fuels are both unsustainable and unsafe, serving as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and leading to adverse respiratory effects and devastation due to global warming.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Beyond solid, liquid and gas, plasma is the fourth state of matter, consisting of an aggregate of charged ions. It exists naturally in places like the sun's surface and Earth's lightning, but it can also be generated. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers created a plasma jet by compressing air into high pressures and using a microwave to ionize the pressurized air stream.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This method differs from previous attempts to create plasma jet thrusters in one key way. Other plasma jet thrusters use xenon plasma, which cannot overcome the friction in Earth's atmosphere, and are therefore not powerful enough for use in air transportation. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Instead, the authors' plasma jet thruster generates the high-temperature, high-pressure plasma in situ using only injected air and electricity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The prototype plasma jet device can lift a 1-kilogram steel ball over a 24-millimeter diameter quartz tube, where the high-pressure air is converted into a plasma jet by passing through a microwave ionization chamber.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">By building a large array of these thrusters with high-power microwave sources, the prototype design can be scaled up to a full-sized jet. 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The elusive particles were found to emerge during radio frequency flares at the centers of quasars.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Quasars are sources of radiation at the centers of some galaxies. They consist of a massive black hole that consumes matter floating in a disk around it and spews out extremely powerful jets of ultrahot gas.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The hypothesis proved highly plausible despite the common assumption that high-energy neutrinos are supposed to originate together with gamma rays.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Neutrinos are mysterious particles so tiny that researchers do not even know their mass. They pass effortlessly through objects, people and even entire planets. 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In chloroplasts, chlorophyll molecules absorb sunlight and pass the extra energy to molecular partners that use it to generate the energy-storing chemicals adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH). </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A suite of other enzymes working in a complex cycle then use ATP and NADPH to convert CO2 from the air into glucose and other energy-rich organic molecules that the plant uses to grow.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CO2 conversion starts with an enzyme called RuBisCO, which prompts CO2 to react with a key organic compound, starting a chain of reactions needed to make vital metabolites in plants.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Each copy of the enzyme can grab and use just five to 10 CO2 molecules per second. That puts a speed limit on how fast plants can grow.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers sought to ramp things up by designing a new set of chemical reactions. Instead of RuBisCO, they substituted a bacterial enzyme that can catch CO2 molecules and force them to react 10 times faster.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In combination with 16 other enzymes from nine different organisms, this created a new CO2-to-organic-chemical cycle they dubbed the CETCH cycle.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The enzymes convert the CO2 into a molecule called glycolate that can be used as a feedstock for making useful organic products.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Researchers hope to modify their setup further to produce other organic compounds that are even more valuable than glycolate, such as drug molecules. 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They sought to capitalize on a naturally occurring phenomenon: electricity from water.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Electricity in thunderstorms is generated only by water in its different phases -- water vapour, water droplets, and ice. Twenty minutes of cloud development is how we get from water droplets to huge electric discharges like lightning.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers set out to try to produce a tiny low-voltage battery that utilizes only humidity in the air, building on the findings of earlier discoveries. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A much more recent study showed that certain metals spontaneously build up an electrical charge when exposed to humidity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The scientists conducted a laboratory experiment to determine the voltage between two different metals exposed to high relative humidity, while one is grounded. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They found that there was no voltage between them when the air was dry. 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But while it is one of the largest single-site solar power plants in India, it is not the largest in Asia.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The distinction of the world’s second-largest photovoltaic power station goes to the Bhadla Solar Park, with a capacity of 2,245 MW, in Jodhpur district in Rajasthan, and the Pavagada Solar Park in Tumkur district, Karnataka, which has a capacity of 2,050 MW.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The project has three units of 250 MW each. The process of the reverse auction in bidding for projects was tried for the first time in India for this project.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">International Finance Corporation, a World Bank group company, has invested close to $440 million or Rs 2,800 crore in the project.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This is the first solar project in India where different categories of customers have contracted to buy power. It is also the first project to get funding from The World Bank and Clean Technology Fund in India.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'rewa-solar-power-plant', 'image' => '', 'fbimage' => '', 'metatitle' => 'Rewa Solar Power Plant', 'metakeyword' => 'Rewa Solar Power Plant', 'metadescription' => 'The solar plant was set up by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited, a joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited and the Centre’s Solar Energy', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => '', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 28 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 5203, 'title' => 'Kakrapar-3 Nuclear reactor', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The third unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP-3) in Gujarat achieved its ‘first criticality’, a term that signifies the initiation of a controlled but sustained nuclear fission reaction.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is a landmark event in India’s domestic civilian nuclear programme given that KAPP-3 is the country’s first 700 MWe (megawatt electric) unit, and the biggest indigenously developed variant of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The PHWRs, which use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as moderator, are the mainstay of India’s nuclear reactor fleet. Until now, the biggest reactor size of the indigenous design was the 540 MWe PHWR, two of which have been deployed in Tarapur, Maharashtra.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The operationalisation of India’s first 700MWe reactor marks a significant scale-up in technology, both in terms of optimisation of its PHWR design and an improvement in the economies of scale, without significant changes to the design of the 540 MWe reactor.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As India works to ramp up its existing nuclear power capacity of 6,780 MWe to 22,480 MWe by 2031, the 700MWe capacity would constitute the biggest component of the expansion plan. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Currently, nuclear power capacity constitutes less than 2% of the total installed capacity of 3, 68,690 MW (end-January 2020).</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nuclear Fission reaction</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Fission is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei, and usually some by-product particles. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When the nucleus splits, the kinetic energy of the fission fragments is transferred to other atoms in the fuel as heat energy, which is eventually used to produce steam to drive the turbines. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For every fission event, if at least one of the emitted neutrons on average causes nuclear fission, a self-sustaining chain reaction will take place. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A nuclear reactor achieves criticality when each fission event releases a sufficient number of neutrons to sustain an ongoing series of reactions.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'kakrapar-3-nuclear-reactor', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a9cb/4fkkt9nmutzabzc6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a9cb/4fkkt9nmutzabzc6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Kakrapar-3 Nuclear reactor', 'metakeyword' => 'Kakrapar-3 Nuclear reactor', 'metadescription' => 'The third unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP-3) in Gujarat achieved its ‘first criticality’, a term that signifies the initiation of a controlled but', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/k86ogtof12vqxaj/3.Kakrapar-3_Nuclear_reactor.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 29 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 4684, 'title' => 'Largest electric flight', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In a breakthrough for electric flight technology, a 750-horsepower electric engine made by MagniX, will power a Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft to fly for an expected 20-30 minutes over Washington state. This will be the largest aircraft ever to fly on electric power.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In December last year, an engine from the same company powered a seaplane in Vancouver, Canada, in what was described as the “world’s first” 100 per cent electric flight.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The retrofitted Caravan plane, which can carry nine passengers, is expected to take off at 8 am Pacific time on May 28, and will fly at a speed of 183 kmph.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Such electric flights could require significantly less maintenance compared to fuel-based aircraft, and could lead to short-distance flights becoming cheaper, thus helping make it more viable for airlines to fly to remote locations.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Apart from MagniX, several companies are involved in making electric flights a reality. The ride-sharing company <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/uber-air-flying-taxis-what-is-being-planned-for-cities-in-us-possibly-in-india-later-5338113/">Uber<strong> </strong>has<strong> </strong>announced<strong> </strong>air<strong> </strong>taxis</a> to fly as early as 2023. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Major industry players such as Airbus and Rolls Royce, a number of startups, as well as the space agency NASA are involved in developing electric flight technologies.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Despite the promise shown by short-range electric flights, several more years of development is expected for powering long-distance journeys. A major obstacle in this process is battery technology, with the weight of the battery being a major challenge.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The aviation sector is a fast-growing source of carbon emissions, and significantly contributes to climate change. According to the World Wildlife Federation, unregulated carbon pollution from aviation is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">By 2050, the aviation industry is expected to cater to 16 billion passengers, up from 2.4 billion in 2010. If the sector solely relies on conventional technologies, emissions would triple by 2050.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Making the aviation sector eco-friendly is an important step for meeting the 2016 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the increase in global temperatures to below 2 deg Celsius, and pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 deg Celsius.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'largest-electric-flight', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e7b/teh6ulao1kjvimy6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9e7b/teh6ulao1kjvimy6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Largest electric flight | Electric Flight', 'metakeyword' => 'Largest electric flight, Electric Flight', 'metadescription' => 'In a breakthrough for electric flight technology, a 750-horsepower electric engine made by MagniX, will power a Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft to fly ', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/i7v9ildr35cjaa6/3.Largest+electric+flight.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 30 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 5331, 'title' => 'Converting PPE into biofuels', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Plastic from used personal protective equipment (PPE) can be transformed into renewable liquid fuels, according to a new study.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The transformation into biocrude, a type of synthetic fuel, will not just prevent the severe after-effects to humankind and the environment but also produce a source of energy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The research describes a strategy for converting billions of items of disposable PPE from its plastic state into biofuels.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers call for PPE waste to be converted into fuel using chemical a process called pyrolysis.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pyrolysis is the most commonly used chemical method whose benefits include the ability to produce high quantities of bio-oil which is easily biodegradable.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This breaks down plastic at high temperature – between 300-400°C for an hour – without oxygen. This process is among the most promising and sustainable methods of recycling compared with incineration and landfill.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The transformation into biocrude, a type of synthetic fuel, will not just prevent the severe after-effects to humankind and the environment but also produce a source of energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">During the current Covid-19 pandemic specifically, PPE is being designed for single-use followed by disposal.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Once these plastic materials are discharged into the environment they end up in landfills or oceans, as their natural degradation is difficult at ambient temperature. They need decades to decompose.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Recycling these polymers requires both physical methods and chemical methods. 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Using the material’s stability he combined solar energy conversion and storage in the form of chemical fuels. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Then using sunlight, and with a photo-electrochemical device made with halide perovskite, the team was able to successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Thermochemical water splitting</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thermochemical water splitting processes use high-temperature heat (500°–2,000°C) to drive a series of chemical reactions that produce hydrogen. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The chemicals used in the process are reused within each cycle, creating a closed loop that consumes only water and produces hydrogen and oxygen.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Numerous solar thermochemical water-splitting cycles have been investigated for hydrogen production, each with different sets of operating conditions, engineering challenges, and hydrogen production opportunities. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The efficiency and durability of reactant materials for thermochemical cycling need to be improved.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Efficient and robust reactor designs compatible with high temperatures 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false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 32 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 6421, 'title' => 'Hydrogen producing algal droplets', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in air.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The study used sugary droplets packed with living algal cells to generate hydrogen, rather than oxygen, by photosynthesis.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is potentially a climate-neutral fuel, offering many possible uses as a future energy source. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A major drawback is that making hydrogen involves using a lot of energy, so green alternatives are being sought and this discovery could provide an important step forward.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">By burying the cells deep inside the droplets, oxygen levels fell to a level that switched on special enzymes called hydrogenases that hijacked the normal photosynthetic pathway to produce hydrogen.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To increase the level of hydrogen evolution, the team coated the living micro-reactors with a thin shell of bacteria, which were able to scavenge for oxygen and therefore increase the number of algal cells geared up for hydrogenase activity.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Hydrogen fuel</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen fuel is a zero-emission fuel burned with oxygen. It can be used in fuel cells or internal combustion engines.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen is usually considered an energy carrier, like electricity, as it must be produced from a primary energy source such as solar energy, biomass, electricity, or hydrocarbons such as natural gas or coal. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conventional hydrogen production using natural gas induces significant environmental impacts; as with the use of any hydrocarbon, carbon dioxide is emitted.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hydrogen fuel can provide motive power for liquid-propellant rockets, cars, trains, boats, and airplanes, portable fuel cell applications or stationary fuel cell applications, which can power an electric motor.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The problems of using hydrogen fuel in cars arise from the fact that hydrogen is difficult to store in either a high pressure tank or a cryogenic tank.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'hydrogen-producing-algal-droplets', 'image' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d040/hyu7ksrcficuvde6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d040/hyu7ksrcficuvde6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Hydrogen producing algal droplets', 'metakeyword' => 'Hydrogen producing algal droplets', 'metadescription' => 'Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in air.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/h00tqgnz3cmowz5/5.Hydrogen_producing_algal_droplets.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 33 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 6470, 'title' => 'India’s renewable energy park', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be laying foundation stone for the world's largest renewable solar and wind energy park in Gujarat's Kutch.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With government of India committing towards installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025, the Gujarat government identified wasteland near the international border for setting up the park.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The renewable park will have two zones: one will exclusively contain Wind Park and the other will be hybrid consisting of both solar and wind parks.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The land in the park is allotted to different energy developers who will install structures according to their demand. This will be both wind as well as solar.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>India’s renewable energy targets</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As of now, 38% of India's installed electricity generation capacity is from renewable sources (136 GW out of 373 GW).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the Paris Agreement India had committed to an Intended Nationally Determined Contributions target of achieving 40% of its total electricity generation from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The country is aiming for even more ambitious target of 57% of the total electricity capacity from renewable sources by 2027. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">According to 2027 blueprint, India aims to have 275 GW from renewable energy, 72 GW of hydroelectricity, 15 GW of nuclear energy, and nearly 100 GW from “other zero emission” sources. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Government of India has also set a target for installation of Rooftop Solar Projects (RTP) of 40 GW by 2022 including installation on rooftop of houses.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government target of installing 20 GW of solar power by 2022 but it was achieved four years ahead of schedule in January 2018, through both solar parks as well as roof-top solar panels. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India then set a new target of achieving 100 GW of solar power, 60GW of wind power, 10GW of bio mass, and 5GW of small hydro power by 2022. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Three of the top five largest solar parks worldwide are in India including the second-largest solar park in the world at Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, with a capacity of 1000 MW. The world's largest solar power plant, Bhadla Solar Park is in Rajasthan with a capacity of 2255 MW.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'indias-renewable-energy-park', 'image' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2f1c/jq15gviay4xy1db6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2f1c/jq15gviay4xy1db6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'India’s renewable energy park | Renewable Energy Park Scheme', 'metakeyword' => 'India’s renewable energy park | What is India's sprawling renewable energy park | PM Modi to inaugurate 30,000 MW renewable energy park | India’s renewable energy targets', 'metadescription' => 'With government of India committing towards installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025, the Gujarat government identified wasteland near the international', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'http://www.mediafire.com/file/mdd77sv4nb7tn0c/4.India%25E2%2580%2599s_renewable_energy_park.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 34 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 7207, 'title' => 'Ethanol-blended petrol', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Fuel outlets have begun placing banners stating that the petrol they sell contains ethanol, which is a bio-fuel obtained primarily from sugarcane.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This blending is being done by the oil marketing companies in their terminals and is not something new and is being used the world-over. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The government has set a target of reaching 10% ethanol-blending by 2022 (10% of ethanol mixed with 90% of petrol) - and 20% by 2030.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India is 83% dependent on imports for meeting its oil needs. Doping petrol with ethanol will cut down the import requirement. Also, ethanol being less polluting fuel, it will cut down carbon emissions.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Ethanol</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is the organic compound Ethyl Alcohol which is produced from biomass. It is also an ingredient in alcoholic beverages. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It has a higher octane number than gasoline, hence improves the petrol octane number. Ethanol has insignificant amount of water in it.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since ethanol contains oxygen, it is supposed to help in complete combustion of fuel, resulting in lower emissions.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since ethanol is produced from plants that harness the power of the sun, ethanol is also considered as renewable fuel.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Biofuel types</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1G bioethanol plants utilise sugarcane juice and molasses, by-products in the production of sugar, as raw material, while 2G plants utilise surplus biomass and agricultural waste to produce bioethanol. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Shortage of biofuel</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Many sugar mills which are best placed to produce bioethanol do not have the financial stability to invest in biofuel plants and there and there are also concerns among investors on the uncertainty o the price of bio-ethanol in the future.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'ethanol-blended-petrol', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8ecb/uadjenf5ji744n16g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8ecb/uadjenf5ji744n16g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Ethanol-blended petrol', 'metakeyword' => 'Ethanol-blended petrol | What is Ethanol-blended petrol | Should we be concerned', 'metadescription' => ' Fuel outlets have begun placing banners stating that the petrol they sell contains ethanol, which is a bio-fuel obtained primarily from sugarcane.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/n6stjy2eznn6uj2/4._Ethanol-blended_petrol.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 35 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 7363, 'title' => 'Aluminium-air battery', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil Corporation has started into a joint venture with Israel-based start-up Phinergy to develop aluminium-air technology based battery systems.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The electric vehicle segment in India is highly unexplored due to lack of recharge infrastructure. The new technology is expected to boost mobility.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Companies like Maruti Suzuki and Ashok Leyland have already signed letters of intent with the joint venture to commercially use the battery solutions produced by the company.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air batteries lower the cost and are more energy-dense compared to lithium-ion batteries which are currently in use for Indian electric vehicles. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An aluminium-air battery undertakes use of oxygen in the air which reacts with an aluminium hydroxide solution to oxidise the aluminium to produce electricity. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Advantages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air battery-based electric vehicles offer much greater range of 400 km or more per battery compared to lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They will reduce our dependency on Chinese imported Lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the battery life, the aluminium present in the aluminium-ion battery can be harvested to be used in other industries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Aluminium-air based batteries are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, thereby reducing the final cost of electric vehicle.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Drawbacks</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of the major drawbacks of aluminium-air batteries is that they cannot be recharged like lithium-ion batteries.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Large scale utilisation of aluminium-air battery based vehicles would need the wide availability of battery swapping stations.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'aluminium-air-battery', 'image' => '', 'fbimage' => '', 'metatitle' => 'Aluminium-air battery', 'metakeyword' => 'Aluminium-air battery | IOC’s new battery JV, and why Maruti and Ashok Leyland have signed up for it | Indian Oil to launch cost-effective aluminium-air batteries for EVs', 'metadescription' => 'Indian Oil Corporation has started into a joint venture with Israel-based start-up Phinergy to develop aluminium-air technology based battery systems.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => '', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 36 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 7033, 'title' => 'Denmark’s artificial energy island project', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Danish government has approved a plan to build an artificial island in the North Sea as part of its effort to switch to green energy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The project is being called the largest construction project to be undertaken in Denmark’s history with an estimated cost of DKK 210 billion.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In June 2020, the Danish Parliament decided to initiate the construction of two energy islands, which will export power to mainland Denmark and neighbouring countries. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An energy island is based on a platform that serves as a hub for electricity generation from surrounding offshore wind farms.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The idea is to connect and distribute power between Denmark and neighbouring countries. Denmark has already entered into agreements with the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium to begin the joint analysis of connections in the energy island.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One of these islands will be located in the North Sea and the second island, called the island of Bornholm, will be located in the Baltic Sea.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The artificial island will be located about 80 km into the North Sea and the majority of it will be owned by the Danish government. Its primary purpose is to provide large-scale offshore wind power.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Importance of the project</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The move has come after the EU announced its plans to transform its electricity system to rely mostly on renewables within a decade and to increase its offshore wind energy capacity by over 25-fold by the year 2050.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Estimates suggest that it will be able to store and produce enough green energy to cover the electricity requirements of over 3 million households in the European Union (EU).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Denmark wants to become the first country in the world to begin working on such energy islands with a total capacity of about 5 GW offshore winds. The construction of both islands is expected to be complete by 2030.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Renewable energy is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, including carbon neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. </span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'denmarks-artificial-energy-island-project', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c2d5/vphf0s1cgz8bu6n6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c2d5/vphf0s1cgz8bu6n6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Denmark’s artificial energy island project', 'metakeyword' => 'Denmark’s artificial energy island project | What is Denmark’s artificial energy island project | Denmark wants to build a renewable energy island in the North Sea, the largest construction project in its history', 'metadescription' => 'The project is being called the largest construction project to be undertaken in Denmark’s history with an estimated cost of DKK 210 billion.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/vmj3bfv4mhh3353/2._Denmark%25E2%2580%2599s_artificial_energy.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 37 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 7522, 'title' => 'Improving lithium-ion battery performance', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To increase performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, researchers of IIT Guwahati have developed a new technique.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on Lithium-ion battery.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lithium-ion batteries are currently used in mobile phones, tablets, laptops and among other devices. The first commercially usable Li-ion battery was created in 1985.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The development of the battery started during the oil crisis of 1970s when there were efforts made to develop energy alternative to oil.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These batteries can be used for storing energy developed using solar and wind energy. This basically allows us to live in fossil fuel less world.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They are susceptible to overheating and also prone to damage at high voltage as a result of their flammable and combustible material.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They start to lose their capacity over time due to continuous cycle of charging and discharging.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>New research</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers have developed a technique to identify state of charge. The State of charge (SOC) signals the amount of charge that can be withdrawn from the battery before it gets fully discharged. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This knowledge will help in optimizing battery’s capacity, preventing overcharging and undercharging, increasing lifespan of battery, reducing cost, and ensuring safety of the battery and its surroundings.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Predicting SOC is difficult to achieve. It is critical in improving battery’s lifespan and optimizing its capacity.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Alternatives to Li-ion batteries</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Australian researchers have developed a lithium-sulphur (Li-S) battery that has the capacity to power a smartphone for more than 5 days. It is equivalent to driving car for 1000km.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Li-sulphur batteries are better because of their cost of production, energy efficiency and improved safety. Their cost of production is also lower as sulphur is easily available.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'improving-lithium-ion-battery-performance', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c6dc/jmikxidd68f97uz6g.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c6dc/jmikxidd68f97uz6g.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Improving lithium-ion battery performance', 'metakeyword' => 'Improving lithium-ion battery performance | Improvement of lithium-ion battery performance using a two-layered | How IIT research may improve lithium-ion battery', 'metadescription' => 'Lithium-ion batteries are currently used in mobile phones, tablets, laptops and among other devices. The first commercially usable Li-ion battery was created', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/kqr8eyqv7joytsy/2._Improving_lithium-ion_battery_performance.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 38 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 7969, 'title' => 'China’s Artificial sun', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as “artificial sun” has achieved 216 million degrees Fahrenheit temperature for 101 seconds.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The sun is able to achieve high temperatures due to fusion reactions. The previous attempts to simulate the sun have proved unsuccessful.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reactor achieved a peak temperature of 288 million degrees Fahrenheit which is about 10 times hotter than sun.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The experiment is a new step towards promoting alternative cleaner energy that produces limited wastage and is limitless.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>EAST</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The East is an artificial experimental device to mimic nuclear fusion reaction. It is located in Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of China.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The main aim of the experiments is to replicate the process of fusion through which the sun produces its energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The EAST is one among the three experimental fusion reactors currently being run across China. The other two are HL-2A and J-TEXT.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The East is part of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) facility, which will be the biggest nuclear fusion reactor after becoming operational.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Member countries contributing to the project includes India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Working of East</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The current nuclear fission reaction generates waste along with energy. The fusion is instead without waste and the amount of energy generated is also higher.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The device will try to emulate the nuclear fusion process that takes place in stars and sun and considered to be future of renewable energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fuel will be heated to very high temperatures to convert it into plasma form. It will be kept away for long duration away from walls to prevent cooling down.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Benefits of nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion does not emit green house gases. It does not generate waste by-products unlike the nuclear fission.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion currently is not controlled. Once it is mastered, it will be an unlimited source of clean energy at less cost.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'chinas-artificial-sun', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/vh2be66r63jseyy/3.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/vh2be66r63jseyy/3.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'China’s Artificial sun | Benefits of nuclear fusion', 'metakeyword' => 'China’s Artificial sun | China's 'artificial sun' sets world record, achieves | What is China’s ‘artificial sun’ experimental fusion reactor', 'metadescription' => 'The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as “artificial sun” has achieved 216 million degrees Fahrenheit temperature for 101 seconds.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/x13jcjgt9v1ykvj/3._China%25E2%2580%2599s_Artificial_sun.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 39 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 8222, 'title' => 'Heat pumps', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new device known as heat pumps is being used to drive out hot air in Western US, which is suffering from historic heat-waves.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many citizens have been forced to buy AC for the first time due to the heat. But ACs are not environment friendly.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The heat pumps are said to be a good and environment friendly alternative to AC. They do not make use of any kind of fossil fuels.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These devices are most appropriate in areas where cooling and heating requirements are moderate.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heat pumps make use of electric current to transfer heat from cold place to warm place. It ensures that cool place remains cooler and the warm place warmer.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It does not generate hot or cold air but rather shifts cold and hot air. It absorbs hot air from within a room and releases it outside during cooling process.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heat pumps are two types based on the medium of heat absorption. One absorbs heat from air and other from ground.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Eco-friendly nature</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They do not create hot or cold air so does not require fossil fuels. It works like a refrigerator to transfer heat using minimal amount of electricity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It cannot be said as a completely renewable option due to use of electricity but the amount of emissions is lower than AC.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Feasibility</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The pump is not cheap. It may cost higher than ACs or heating system as it requires laying of pipeline consisting of fluid.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In such a case, air pumps are most suited. The savings on use of this device depends on the area it services and the time used.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In India, the device is getting popular in places such as movie halls, malls and large buildings. The availability of solar energy makes it an attractive option.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'heat-pumps', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/664pq2hu04z1wy8/5.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/664pq2hu04z1wy8/5.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Heat pumps | Heat Pump Water Heater in India', 'metakeyword' => 'Heat pumps | Eco-friendly nature | Heat Pump Water Heater in India', 'metadescription' => 'A new device known as heat pumps is being used to drive out hot air in Western US, which is suffering from historic heat-waves.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/4mvnua841dqkj6g/5._Heat_pumps.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 40 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 8602, 'title' => 'Nuclear fusion recent breakthrough', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A breakthrough in nuclear fusion research has been reported by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fusion technology experiments were carried out in National Ignition Facility of the research laboratory.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The researchers used laser to heat pellets of tritium and deuterium. The small area of target produced enough heat to make the atoms fuse and produce energy. About 1.3 mega joules of energy was produced.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The energy produced is not significant enough in terms of general practice but is very important when fusion technology is concerned.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It is a process in which several smaller nuclei are combined into a large single nucleus with subsequent release of energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nuclear fusion is a form of unlimited renewable energy. The same process happens on the surface of Sun and powers it.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The process is preferable because it produces no long radioactive waste, do not emit carbon dioxide and inexhaustible.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Achievement of breakthrough</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The fusion reaction was triggered after the team made changes to the energy level of laser and the precision. The design of facility was also varied. The conditions were made similar to centre of our sun.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">An ionized matter of state known as plasma is formed when multiple nuclei fuse. It also releases alpha particles that trigger self sustenance of the reaction.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issues for future</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The energy produced is just fraction of energy needed to run a fusion nuclear power plant. The technology needs more enhancements.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The imitation of conditions on the sun will allow scientists to produce matter that is only available on stars and supernovae.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'nuclear-fusion-recent-breakthrough', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/xh5bmjn8k2ge8ox/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/xh5bmjn8k2ge8ox/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Nuclear fusion recent breakthrough', 'metakeyword' => 'Nuclear fusion recent breakthrough | Achievement of breakthrough', 'metadescription' => 'The researchers used laser to heat pellets of tritium and deuterium. 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These investments are part of reaching the target.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">India has a rather ambitious renewable energy target. It plans to reach 450 GW of renewable energy by 2030 from the existing 100 GW.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Renewable energy investments</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ONGC will be aiming at achieving 10 GW of renewable energy by 2040 from the existing 178MW of renewable energy capacity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">GAIL is looking to increase its renewable energy capacities to 1 GW within 3-4 years from the existing 130 MW. It is undertaking a series of acquisitions.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil Corporation Ltd is setting up 257 electric charging and battery swapping stations across many fuel outlets. This is done considering the migration towards electric mobility.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The company will start a joint venture with Sun Mobility to set up battery swapping. It will also set up India’s first green hydrogen plant in Mathura.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indian Oil will partner with startup Phinergy to manufacture aluminum-air technology based battery systems for electric vehicles.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Tata Power are jointly setting up vehicle charging stations at petrol pumps.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'oil-and-gas-companies-exploring', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/vvj7a9vqnk04yzb/2.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/vvj7a9vqnk04yzb/2.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Oil and gas companies exploring green energy options', 'metakeyword' => 'Oil and gas companies exploring green energy options | Renewable energy investments', 'metadescription' => 'The oil companies are also trying hard to help government to achieve ambitious renewable energy targets. These investments are part of reaching the target.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/ich1mr7ef98x6ng/2._Oil_and_gas_companies_exploring_green_energy_options.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 42 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 8911, 'title' => 'Dark energy', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For the first time ever, researchers have made direct detection of dark energy. Earlier, there were only certain clues about its existence.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark energy is described as a form of energy that makes up about 68% of the universe. It has managed to intrigue scientists and astronomers from many years.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark energy signs were found when certain unexpected results were obtained during XENON1T experiment.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The XENON1T experiment is an underground experiment conducted at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. It is the most sensitive dark matter experiment and hence conducted deep underground.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The results are an indication that experiments designed to identify dark matter can also be used to detect dark energy.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Dark energy and dark matter</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe and dark energy 68%. The things we see make up only 5% of all the matter in universe.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The dark matter is responsible for attracting and keeping galaxies together whereas dark energy repels to cause expansion of our universe.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scientific community has more information about dark matter as it was conceptualized in 1920s whereas dark energy was discovered recently in 1998.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>The discovery</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sometimes unexpected discoveries are made, which are considered flukes. The events that may have been due to background noise could be dark energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A screening mechanism known as chameleon was used. It could be used to show that dark energy particles produced in the Sun’s strong magnetic fields could explain the signal seen in XENON1T.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Direct detection</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Upgrades to the XENON1T experiment and similar experiments such as LUX-Zeplin and PandaX-xT could help in directly detecting dark energy in upcoming days.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'dark-energy', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/s6chiw6jsloycfi/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/s6chiw6jsloycfi/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Dark energy | Dark energy and dark matter', 'metakeyword' => 'Dark energy | Dark energy and dark matter', 'metadescription' => 'Dark energy is described as a form of energy that makes up about 68% of the universe. It has managed to intrigue scientists and astronomers from many years.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/1qsnauy3cxdjhnj/2._Dark_energy.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 43 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 9719, 'title' => 'Europe dealing with energy crisis', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Europe is facing a natural gas shortage of high magnitude. The reserves have been all-time low and prices have gone up.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Natural gas is the major source for heating homes during the harsh winters. Customers are already facing high bills.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">European countries import majority of their energy from middle-east. The pandemic has affected supply chains and raised costs.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Countries rely on underground gas stored in caverns to handle sudden additional demand for gas for heating or electricity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This year, the caverns were only 56% full compared to 73% last year. The reasons include harsh winters, non delivery from Russia and high demands in Asia.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The cold weather would mean that the countries would need to import 5-10% more gas compared to normal times.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Effects</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The shortage of supply and growing demands has pushed the prices higher. Prices have climbed to nine times their level at the start of last year.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Analysts have observed that traders have diverted their Asia bounds ships from middle of the ocean towards Europe to take advantage of lucrative prices.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Role of Russia</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">State-owned Gazprom has sold less gas on short term. The company is focusing on fulfilling its long-term contracts.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Russia may be using the opportunity to pressurize west European nations in resolving border tensions that occurred near Ukraine.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Role of weather</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Mild winter will be the key in averting the shortage disaster. The temperatures have been normal till now but it can change fast.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Moves by government</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Many countries are offering cash subsidies to consumers to tide over high prices and soften the impact on household income.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">On a long term, there should be focus on renewable energy such as solar and wind.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Cooperation between countries</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In extreme situations, countries can declare gas emergency and shut down industrial customers to spare households. This will hurt economy but save lives.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Countries can request supplies from neighbouring countries under EU legislation. It remains to be seen if countries are willing to help even if they face shortages.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The mechanism has not been tested till now but many changes are being envisioned such as joint purchase of gas.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'europe-dealing-with-energy-crisis', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/w440uyyq9xz1xwa/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/w440uyyq9xz1xwa/2_%25281%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Europe dealing with energy crisis & Cooperation between countries', 'metakeyword' => 'Europe dealing with energy crisis & Cooperation between countries', 'metadescription' => 'Europe is facing a natural gas shortage of high magnitude. The reserves have been all-time low and prices have gone up.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/ewoosibtvjjhvu5/2._Europe_dealing_with_energy_crisis.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 44 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 9870, 'title' => 'Proposal to pool solar tariffs and bundle renewable energy', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Rules to pool tariffs will soon be introduced by the Union power ministry. This has been done to accelerate the procurement of solar power by power distribution companies. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">There are also plans to boost bundling of renewable energy in existing thermal Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">All solar power procured during a period will be pooled and buyers will have to pay an average of all the tariffs that are contracted in a pooling period. </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">During the next bid, if the prices are found to be lower than previous, they will be pooled again to arrive at the new price.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Need for pooling</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Solar power tariffs are falling continuously due to reduction of solar panel prices. Discoms are waiting for prices to fall further rather than contracting them.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The Solar Energy Corporation is finding it difficult to find buyers at discovered prices because discoms expect the tariffs will continue to fall.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In addition, many discoms have already fulfilled the renewable energy obligations. Pooling tariffs could help speed up procurement of solar power.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) </strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Commitment made by all discoms to meet a minimum specified quantity of their requirements from renewable energy sources.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Renewable Energy Bundling</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government is planning to bundle renewable energy with thermal power under existing PPAs so as to supply power to customers from their renewable energy projects.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The profits earned from bundling renewable energy will be shared between generators and discoms on a 50:50 basis.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Benefits</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Bundling renewable energy and thermal energy will particularly benefit old thermal power projects which have become unviable due to high variable cost.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Currently, discoms pay fixed costs for such plants under existing PPAs, even if no power is procured from these plants.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Future plans </strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government plans to bundle 10,000 Megawatt of renewable energy with fossil fuel based power over the next 4-5 years.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Pooling</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Polling is an activity in which multiple owners provide their resources to be combined and used collectively as a single entity.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'proposal-pool-solar-tariffs', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/6vdm1usffb19n0l/3_%25281%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/6vdm1usffb19n0l/3_%25281%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Proposal to pool solar tariffs and bundle renewable energy', 'metakeyword' => 'Proposal to pool solar tariffs and bundle renewable energy', 'metadescription' => 'Rules to pool tariffs will soon be introduced by the Union power ministry. This has been done to accelerate the procurement of solar power by power ', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/zpunnli0r7yzimw/3._Proposal_to_pool_solar_tariffs_and_bundle_renewable_energy.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 45 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 9905, 'title' => 'Nuclear fusion breakthrough', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The JET laboratory in Britain has smashed the record in the amount of energy it can extract through nuclear fusion.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion in a controlled environment has been a work in progress since many years and its commercial use has not yet been obtained.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The recent experiment managed to produce 59 MJ of energy over five seconds. This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The JET is collaboration between EU member states, Switzerland, the UK and Ukraine, founded in 1978.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Significance of results</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The energy harvested is very less but it strengthens design choices that have been made for a bigger fusion reactor now being constructed in France.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The experiment demonstrated the greatest amount of energy output from the fusion reactions of any device in history.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>ITER facility</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is a project carried out in France by a consortium of countries such as the US, EU, Britain, China and also India.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Nuclear fusion works on the principle that energy can be released by forcing together atomic nuclei.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This naturally happens on stars including the Sun, which give out energy through this process.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The fuel to produce the plasma will be a mix of two forms, or isotopes, of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Importance of nuclear fusion</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Successful harvesting could lead to potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fusion reaction will produce no greenhouse gases and only very small amounts of short-lived radioactive waste.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Theoretically, a small glass of deuterium and tritium could power a house for hundreds of years. The fuels are also easily obtained.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The biggest challenge is to sustain the process and prevent it from extinguishing. There is also a need to reduce energy consumption.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'nuclear-fusion-breakthrough', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/lalizm7z0g2hb66/2_%25285%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/lalizm7z0g2hb66/2_%25285%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Nuclear fusion breakthrough & Importance of nuclear fusion', 'metakeyword' => 'Nuclear fusion breakthrough & Importance of nuclear fusion', 'metadescription' => 'Nuclear fusion in a controlled environment has been a work in progress since many years and its commercial use has not yet been obtained.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/lks5dvm8quq3o5y/2._Nuclear_fusion_breakthrough.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 46 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 10059, 'title' => 'Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A fire incident has occurred at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant due to a war between Russia and Ukraine.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days, resulting in damages to public infrastructure.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Reports have suggested that fire broke out in the administrative building. However, there were no signs of radiation.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>The plant</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear plant in Europe. It is located in Enerhodar city in the north-western part of Ukraine.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The plant consists of six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR) and has a total power output of 5,700 MWe.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It contributes a fifth of the electricity generated in Ukraine. Comparison wise, it is three times the size of Kudankulam nuclear power plant.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Damages </strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Ukrainian officials have alleged that the plant has endured damages due to continuous attacks by Russia. If the plant blows, the damage will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The IAEA says that nuclear power plant and essential equipments are unaffected by the fire and background radiation is also normal.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Dangers involved</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The plant is unlikely to generate radioactivity like Chernobyl but there are problems associated due to old safety features.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The biggest risk is if fuel pond is hit by missiles. The safety of these repositories of spent fuel is not as robust as of the plant itself.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Kudankulam power plant</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Kudankulam nuclear power plant is located in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, consisting of six VVER-1000 reactors.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It is constructed through collaboration between Atomstroyexport, the Russian state company and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/i29a3sb57bbti6f/4_%25283%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/i29a3sb57bbti6f/4_%25283%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant & Dangers involved', 'metakeyword' => 'Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant & Dangers involved', 'metadescription' => 'The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has intensified in recent days, resulting in damages to public infrastructure.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/p5wr2nou4j8tjlu/4._Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 47 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 10256, 'title' => 'E-scooters catching fire', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Many incidents have been reported about two-wheeler electric scooters catching fire abruptly.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Electric scooter or e-scooters run on electric rechargeable batteries instead of petroleum fuel.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The electric vehicles (EV) mostly use Lithium-ion batteries as they are light and highly efficient compared to other varieties.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The same batteries are used in electronic devices such as cellphones and laptops. These batteries are also vulnerable to fire incidents.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Lithium-ion batteries</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are one of the most popular battery types today, powering millions of consumer electronics around the globe.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Battery structure</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">It is made up of anode, cathode, separator, electrolyte, and two current collectors. Lithium is stored in cathode and anode.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Working</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The movement of the lithium ions from the anode to the cathode and vice versa through the separator creates a charge at positive current collector.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Advantages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Light weight</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">High energy density</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Rechargeable</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Longer lifespan</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Disadvantages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">High energy density of these cells can become unstable in certain conditions, hampering functionality.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A battery management system (BMS) has to be applied to a Li-ion battery to make sure they operate safely.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">In extreme high temperatures, the battery packs gets unstable and become extremely prone to catching fire.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Reasons for fires</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The major reason is assumed to be short-circuit in battery cells. Even if a few cells malfunction and cause a short circuit, it can kick start a chain reaction resulting in a fire.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">This process is termed as thermal runaway. It is the main reason why the battery burst into flames immediately.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Effects of battery fires</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fire in batteries of electric vehicles can impact consumer shift towards electric mobility. There will be hesitation for buying electric vehicles.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There are fears that the ambitious electric migration plan will be delayed if such incidents keep happening.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'e-scooters-catching-fire', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/a6cnrj50nbfes9i/3.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/a6cnrj50nbfes9i/3.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'E-scooters catching fire and Reasons for fires - StudyIQ', 'metakeyword' => 'E-scooters catching fire and Reasons for fires - StudyIQ', 'metadescription' => 'The same batteries are used in electronic devices such as cellphones and laptops. These batteries are also vulnerable to fire incidents.', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/bj49o87o55ljeqt/3._E-scooters_catching_fire.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 48 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 10257, 'title' => 'Hydrogen-powered car', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Union minister of Transport Nitin Gadkari recently travelled to Parliament on a hydrogen-powered car.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The vehicle was Toyota Mirai, which has three hydrogen tanks, which can be refilled in about five minutes. It has a 1.24 kWh lithium ion battery pack powered by a 182 <a href="https://indianexpress.com/about/hp/">hp</a> electric motor.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The minister’s use of the vehicle is seen as a strong indication of shift in centre’s policy for exploring other mobility methods instead of conventional EVs.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Types of electric vehicles</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV), Battery-powered Electric Vehicle (BEV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are different types.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">FCEVs use hydrogen gas to power an on-board electric motor. They are considered EVs as they are completely powered by electricity.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Compared to BEV, they are different as they follow traditional fuelling process. The fuelling time is about five minutes compared to 35-40 minutes for BEVs.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The biggest benefit of FCEV is that it has five times better energy storage per unit volume. This allows rider to go farther.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>India’s policy on hydrogen vehicles</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government had announced plans to launch a comprehensive National Hydrogen Energy Mission.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A Hydrogen Energy Mission in 2021-22 was announced in budget for generating hydrogen from green power sources.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'hydrogen-powered-car', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/cryfaoh4a7dyijb/4.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/cryfaoh4a7dyijb/4.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'Hydrogen-powered car and India’s policy on hydrogen vehicles', 'metakeyword' => 'Hydrogen-powered car and India’s policy on hydrogen vehicles', 'metadescription' => 'The vehicle was Toyota Mirai, which has three hydrogen tanks, which can be refilled in about five minutes. It has a 1.24 kWh lithium ion battery pack powered by', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/2bbvywql3sfu2uy/4._Hydrogen-powered_car.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 49 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 10290, 'title' => 'IOC, L&T and ReNew venture to produce green hydrogen', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A long term deal has been signed to form a Joint Venture (JV) company by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and ReNew Power (ReNew) to produce green hydrogen.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The government had announced plans to launch a comprehensive National Hydrogen Energy Mission.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint venture company will aim to produce green hydrogen at an industrial scale. It is part of India’s mission to become hub for hydrogen energy.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The joint venture company has the research expertise of IOC, infrastructure expertise of L&T and renewable energy experience of ReNew to produce green hydrogen.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The guideline of the government says that National Hydrogen Mission will aim to increase production to 5 million metric tonnes (MMT) by 2030 to meet about 40 per cent of domestic requirements.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Hydrogen production in India</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The hydrogen currently produced in India is Grey hydrogen, which is obtained using natural gas and ammonia.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The green hydrogen will be produced from renewable energy through electrolysis of water. The government plans to substitute grey hydrogen by green hydrogen.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Measures to boost green hydrogen</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme worth Rs 15,000 crore is being considered by the government for electrolysers.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A green hydrogen and green ammonia policy has been notified by the centre that promises to provide free power for 25 years to green hydrogen production plants set up before July 2025.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">A new mandate is being planned by the government to ensure that oil refining, fertiliser and steel sectors procure green hydrogen for a certain proportion of their requirements. </span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Benefits of green hydrogen</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It reduces carbon emissions as byproduct of hydrogen fuel combustion is only water vapour. The production of hydrogen fuel is also through non-carbon renewable energy.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'ioc-l-t-and-renew-venture-produce-green-hydrogen', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/xgc963kdc2gzzc5/1_%25283%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/xgc963kdc2gzzc5/1_%25283%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'IOC, L&T and ReNew venture to produce green hydrogen', 'metakeyword' => 'IOC, L&T and ReNew venture to produce green hydrogen', 'metadescription' => 'A long term deal has been signed to form a Joint Venture (JV) company by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and ReNew Power (ReNew) to produce', 'author' => null, 'downlaodpdf' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/nv0hq1ftkwycu67/1._IOC%252C_L%2526T_and_ReNew_venture_to_produce_green_hydrogen.pdf/file', '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'currentaffairs' }, (int) 50 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) { 'tag' => 'Energy', 'keyword' => 'energy', 'id' => (int) 10293, 'title' => 'High coal prices impact on power sector', 'description' => '<p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Issue</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the prices of international and domestic coal are set to witness a sharp rise.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Power tariffs have witnessed rise on India Energy Exchange due to increase in input prices for power companies.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Domestic coal supply has already failed to cater to growing demands. High international coal prices are also affecting Indian power producers.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">As domestic demand for locally produced coal increase, power cuts started as several thermal power plants ran out of coal stock.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The coal import dependency is likely to increase in the short term as demand and supply from domestic producers is not in sync.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Rise in international coal prices</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Russia is one of the largest coal suppliers and the war has led to disruptions from Russia. It is unlikely to be replaced by others anytime soon.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The price of Australian coal has hit an all-time high of about $330 per tonne. Australia long with Indonesia is one of the biggest sources for imported coal in India.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The spot price of domestic coal is also at all-time high due to increased demand. It is likely to increase further.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Way ahead</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The prices in global market will increase further unless Coal India is able to ramp up domestic coal production to match demand.</span></span></p> ', 'created_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {}, 'posturl' => 'high-coal-prices-impact-power-sector', 'image' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/25kmhcku2jlqi1w/4_%25283%2529.jpg', 'fbimage' => 'https://www.mediafire.com/file/25kmhcku2jlqi1w/4_%25283%2529.jpg', 'metatitle' => 'High coal prices impact on power sector - StudyIQ', 'metakeyword' => 'High coal prices impact on power sector', 'metadescription' => 'Domestic coal supply has already failed to cater to growing demands. 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Maharashtra and Gujarat have already planned to import.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Coal stocks have fallen below the critical mark of 25% across many thermal power stations in the country.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The coal ministry however said that 72.5 million tonnes of coal was available in the country, which can last over a month.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-right:0in"> </p> <p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><strong>Coal shortages</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">About 55% of the country’s energy needs are fulfilled by coal. 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