Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011
Google invests 280 million dollars to make solar energy affordable
To date,Google has invested over $680 million in innovative clean energy companies and projects through Google.org, Google Ventures and Google corporate investments. Google intends to supporte cleantech companies with scalable and potentially breakthrough technologies that could produce renewable energy cheaper than coal. Some of the google's investments in clean energy -
Today Google announced a $280 million investment to create a fund, in partnership with SolarCity, to help the company finance more solar installations across US.This is Google's first investment in "distributed" renewable energy (generated and used right at home). The investment is expected to be a quadruple-win for Google, SolarCity, the environment, and new customers who get access to clean energy at a economic rates.
Date: 14 Jun 2011 , Author: / Category: Energy, / Views: 4155/Rating:NAN
Friday, 10 Jun 2011
MIT report : Natural Gas can be short term solution for green house gas reduction
Natural gas is important in many sectors of the economy: for generating electricity, as a heat source for industry and buildings, and in chemical feedstock. Despite its vital importance to the economy, natural gas has often been overlooked, or at best taken for granted, in the debate about the future of energy.
Over the past two or three years, this has started to change, and natural gas is finding its place at the heart of the energy discussion. Given the abundance of natural gas available through extensive global resources and the recent emergence of substantial unconventional supplies in the United States and discovery of new sources in some countries, worldwide usage of the fuel is likely to continue to grow considerably and contribute to significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come, according to a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study carried out over the last three years by MIT researchers...
Date: 10 Jun 2011 , Author: / Category: Energy / Views: 6602/Rating:5 / Comments:
Sunday, 5 Jun 2011
Havoc at ram lila maida - Baba Ramdev Missing- Is he arrested??
One of the most striking speeches made by Jawhar Lal Nehru when India got Freedom - " At the stroke of Midnight hour , when the world is sleeping.. India awakens.." . And being a weekend I was just awake to see one the most unwarrented happenings against democracy. Around 0100 hrs , when most of the people are about to sleep switching off the TVs - started the drama .
Date: 5 Jun 2011 , Author: / Category: India / Views: 3139/Rating:3.7 / Comments:
Thursday, 2 Jun 2011
Space Shuttle Endeavour returns safely to retire - next in line - Atlantis
Space shuttle Endeavour completed its final flight by delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during the STS-134 mission.
"I think we all should be really impressed how big and magnificent that space station is," said STS-134 Mission Specialist Mike Fincke at the crew press conference following landing. Describing their parting view of the space station where he served once as crew and once as commander, he said, "We were impressed; we were excited like five-year olds at a rollercoaster park."
Date: 2 Jun 2011 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 1585/Rating:NAN / Comments:
Monday, 30 May 2011
NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars after Six Years of Tirumphs
NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opportunity.
This marks the completion of one of the most successful missions of interplanetary exploration ever launched.
Date: 30 May 2011 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 2177/Rating:5
Saturday, 21 May 2011
India's advanced Communiation Satellite GSAT-8 successfully launched by Ariane - Video
It was a perfect launch. At exactly 02.08 a.m. Indian time on Saturday, from Kourou, French Guiana the 800-tonne Ariane 5 launcher carrying two communications satellites weighing over 9000 kilos in its nose fairing, blasted off into space. India’s GSAT-8, the largest and heaviest satellite built by ISRO and its partners weighing 3,100 kg , was one of the two "co-passengers" on the flight. The other, an even heavier satellite weighing 5 tonnes was from Singapore and Taiwan.
Date: 21 May 2011 , Author: / Category: India Space / Views: 5829/Rating:3.9 / Comments:
Monday, 16 May 2011
Space Shuttle Endeavour's One Last ride Chugging Anti-Matter detector to ISS - Videos
NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-134 is the final flight for Endeavour and the second to last flight for the Space Shuttle Program. Endeavour cleared the pad just after 1826 Indian time 16th May (1256 GMT; 1356 BST). Its thunderous rise into a bright morning sky over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators.It is now on a path to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday.The ship will deliver a $2bn particle physics experiment, known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), and a tray of critical spare parts..
Date: 16 May 2011 , Author: / Category: Science and Technology / Views: 2809/Rating:3.7 / Comments: