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Kerosene stoves are quietly resurrecting from their graves amid LPG Crisis; How to safely use the old ones at homeLPG shortage crisis: The Union government has announced the reintroduction of kerosene and coal as temporary cooking options to ease the pr...- Did you know Bengaluru was the first city in Asia to use electrical street lamps?The electrification of the city cost Rs 6 lakh in total with an initial annual maintenance expense of Rs 50,000.
- Collector's corner: A passion that keeps entrepreneur Radeesh Shetty's lamp burningThe 35-year-old entrepreneur has 80 antique oil and kerosene lamps, some as old as 200 years.
- Switching world’s poor to clean energy could save them $27 billion: StudyReplacing all the kerosene lamps, candles and battery-powered torches in South Asia with solar LED lanterns would save $5-8 billion in fuel...
- Parents not getting 24-hour electricity former President APJ Abdul Kalam's greatest regretHe has come up with a new book "Reignited: Scientific Pathways to a Brighter Future", co-authored by his close aide Srijan Pal Singh.
- Delhi’s air is being polluted by three perverse subsidiesDelhi’s air pollution is terrible. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned diesel vehicles more than 10 years old,
- iDiya: Solar-powered alternative to electric lighting, kerosene lampsThe portable product that was launched in February this year, is the size of a human palm, provides triple the amount of illumination and h...
- Greenlight Planet receives funding of $10 millionGreenlight Planet was founded in 2007 by a team of student engineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- How to solve electricity woes in rural India? Free solar lamp instead of subsidized keroseneStudies show 40 per cent of kerosene, supposedly meant for the poor, is diverted to other users.
- Government, IIT-Bombay launch solar project to reduce kerosene subsidyIIT Bombay started a programme last year to distribute solar lamps to students living in non-electrified areas of the country.
- US consulate offers $200K grant for clean energySELCO will utilize the aid to set up six innovation labs, which will develop and test sustainable energy solutions.
- Luminous Power Technologies launched LED based solar lighting for rural IndiaThe energy efficient LED based design of this new product with a single light output is at par with 11 watts CFL.
- Remove these subsidiesWhat’s required is to purposefully phase out subsidised kerosene
- Texas Instruments chips in with solar lighting productsSophisticated device like a microcontroller could become the key to addressing lighting needs in semi-urban and rural areas in a cost-effec...
- Kerosene dole may fuel solar lanternsThe poor may now hope to use non-polluting lanterns instead of carbon emitting kerosene lamps.
- PM skips politics, touts economics of energyPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reaffirmed his government’s commitment to the development of nuclear energy as he said it has an im...
- Govt to launch energy efficient lamps by DeepawaliThe government on Monday said it will launch an energy efficient version of traditional kerosene lamp by this Deepawali as part of efforts ...
- Kerosene use dippingThe subsidised cooking fuel, kerosene, has largely been used for lighting in rural areas.
- For an LED-led rural lightingLight emitting diodes (LEDs) offer enormous saving in power, last many times as long as conventional lamps and are robust.
- In new light: The inequitable gender connection of solar energyThe Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has advertised its intent to provide free solar lanterns to under-privileged girls living in unele...
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