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| Technologies suitable for the Himalayan region in energy, irrigation, agro-processing, sanitation, and others. |
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Insect Trap |
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Technology
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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India |
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Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Grain storage facilities are always susceptible to pest infestations that can put to waste all the hard work a farmer has put in. As a solution to this problem Dr. S. Mohan of the Tamil Nadu University has created a device called an... |
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Pine needles for fuel! |
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Renewable energy
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Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) |
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Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh - India |
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Did you ever think that pine needles would be of much use? Well, they are. Professor Iyer and Professor Rao of Indian Institute of Technology (Department of Chemical Engineering, Delhi) have successfully developed alternative fuel... |
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Composting Toilet Construction |
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Health and Sanitation
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www.cee.mtu.edu/sustainable_engineering |
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Republic of Vanuatu |
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Ensuring access to clean water and basic sanitation services is the first step in eliminating poverty. Composting toilet (CT) technology takes into consideration both these factors. Composting toilets do not use water; they can work... |
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Earth-bags as construction material |
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Architecture/ Technology
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www.networkearth.org |
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Hesperia, California |
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On has often seen earth-bags being used by the military forces to create bunkers. Most commonly, the material of the bag is polypropylene or burlap, polypropylene being more durable than burlap. Usually the bags are filled with sand, clay... |
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| Title: |
Airborne Wind Turbines |
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Renewable Energy
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Joby Energy Inc. |
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Santa Cruz, California, USA |
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This renewable innovation of energy is a computer – controlled and multi winged, kite like structure, which has been developed to float at a height of 2000 feet in order to generate power. Mr. Bevirt from Joby Energy Inc has invented... |
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Fuel from Chicken Feathers? |
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Renewable Energy
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University of Nevada |
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Nevada USA |
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Professor Manoranjan ‘Mano’ Misra along with his team in Nevada discovered that Biodiesel fuel could also be produced with the help of ‘chicken feather meal’, which consists of feathers, blood, innards of a chicken.... |
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