Wisdom beacons us to avoid the repeat of Kedarnath like the death dance of Lord Shiva- Tandon sir Once you become aware of the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayan region and the kind of hazards involved, the serious question starts hounding you how far should we go on the present spree of establishing hydroelectric power […]
Wisdom beacons us to avoid the repeat of Kedarnath like the death dance of Lord Shiva- Tandon sir It is well known that energy production methods are Nuclear, Hydroelectric, Coal-fired, Geothermal, Solar, Wind, and tidal power plants. The steam engine was sort of a startup for not just the Industrial Revolution. Further, when it got
It is not the flood but the bad planning and poor disaster management that brings misery to people and loss of livestock- Tandon Sir Some definitions and keywords. TRADE WINDS-The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth’s equatorial region. LIVESTOCK- Livestock is the domesticated animals raised in
The floods restore the microbial and nutritional life of depleted soils. Read More »
From the time in memorial, natural disasters have been there. However, as the pace of our life gets faster and modern, not only natural but industries many of which involve the storage of toxic gases and chemicals have further contributed to it.Some days it rains so heavily that we cannot step out of home and
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Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance. On the planet earth, enormous energy storages exist in forms such as ocean tidal energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, seismic energy. It is important to appreciate that these energy storages are not static but dynamic i.e these energies keep transforming from one form to another
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“We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.” by environmental activist ‘Greta Thunberg’ The climate means a statistical distribution of weather patterns and when such changes last for an extended period of time.
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It is the energy in flow from Sun that sustains all life on Earth, Surrounded by turbulence storms exchanging matters, thermodynamically speaking called an open system. Only open systems supports self organization that is what life is all about. The economy of a country also grows by trade in and out to other countries. Of
