I am just about a thousand away from the 10,000 visitor mark on my blog, and thought it pertinent to write a sequel to my ever popular post, "Can I Call You On The Telephone". As you would realize, this blog has since moved on to Solar Energy, back then, when I wrote the above mentioned post it was a very personal blog, expressing joy and despair at what was happening in life, to me and my...
Friday, 31 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013
Solar Cooking
As a corollary to my last post where I mentioned that renewables is not only electricity, I bring to you in this article more on how solar can be used as heating fuel for cooking. The three most common
types of solar cookers are : The box cooker, Parabolic Concentrators and the Panel Cooker....
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Renewables is not only Electricity
A lot has been said about how we impact the environment and how the environment impacts us, however a few salient points need to be noted, for one, renewables doesn't necessary mean electricity, it means cooking fuel, it means driving fuel and it constitutes heating fuel apart from electricity. It is easy to be lead by the lobby that believes that only if generated electricity is received is...
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Win or Lose Does It Matter
In my last post I had mentioned that there is this woman I called on my return from Dubai, and met her in Jaipur which is a Western State capital of Rajasthan. An author by profession, similar in talents as me with loads of experience sales and marketing, researching and now writing. An absolutely sane headed woman, I met her at this local cafe, and we have a lot of them, including, Cafe Coffee...
Friday, 10 May 2013
Cool your Windows
As I travel the length and breadth of the city, I come across many houses that use shading or a permanent awning to protect the windows from heat gain, and in affect the house during peak summers. Some designs work and a lot of them don't, and that hardly is a matter of instinct, its all in the design. It is abundantly clear to me, that there are some places that a permanent awning will...
Passive Cooling
This week, I travelled to Dehradun, I saw a lot of houses using innovative techniques to design a Naturally Cooled House, and one of them included a house near the Rama Krishna Mission. It was a regular house and used solar water heating for its winter requirements. During the summers,...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
The Wall and Insulation
A lot of thoughts have flowed into my mind ever since I started on the project of Renewables, for instance, I forget about Sustainable Buildings, where all the work of saving energy happens. Truly a noble thought, room heating and cooling can only be of used if I can provide mechanisms to reduce Heat Loss. Interestingly, I spent a lot of time figuring out the people who are involved...
Monday, 6 May 2013
You Win Some You Lose Some
On my return from Dubai, I met up with an old friend of mine who works for a large BPO in Noida, I hadn't spoken to her for a very long time, I was feeling lonely, very down and out and called her on a hunch. I was probably more than hunch, I really wanted to talk to her, smart, intelligent girl with everything in the right place. To my amazement, she picked up and spoke like normal,...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
The Designer and the Presenter
Back home from a hectic trip, on the flight I met this lovely lady, Nguyen, from Vietnam and a beautiful lady at that, she was travelling to India on a business trip, turned out she was a marketing professional, with loads of experience for young lady of 25. Now, I am not somebody who trusts...
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Plaguarism - Beware of the disease
I travelled to Dubai, last week, there were too many of these customers, who thought it right to give me advice on what to do, Dubai is a great city and has enough sunshine to make solar work, I had projects ranging from 25kW to 100kW. There was certain client, Ahmed, who seemed to be suggesting that I needed to give a concrete proposal to make things happen, I was amiable and open to discussion....
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