Do you know where your energy comes from? With the help of a colleague, I created an Energy Map of India, which purports to have the geographic data of all major energy infrastructure in the country.
The Paris Agreement has 194 global signatories and aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial…
When organic material burns incompletely, it generates soot (which is not the same as carbon black). And soot is a problem. Scientists have linked the production of soot with at least two critical issues:
There’s a concept in energy policy making called the ‘Energy Trilemma’. It discuses the dilemma of having to choose between the three dimensions of security (secure physical supplies), equity (accessibility and affordability of energy), and environmental…
Nuclear energy has proven to be the most contentious form of energy, even though it has proven to be far safer than fossil fuel sources. The reason it has failed to live up to the potential it was expected to have in the 1970s, however, is only indirectly due to concerns over its…
By Siddharth Singh, 2nd April, 2016
Update: While the original piece is available below, turns out that the news article on which it was based was incorrect. The…