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10/04/2024

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31/03/2024

‘Till death do us part!’

Marriages are made in heaven. Death? It is also made in heaven. Or are they made in hell?

The fear of death permeates the thoughts of all species on this planet. Who knows may be the planets, stars and the mighty galaxies themselves have it. Nobody knows what life is!

Scientists are endlessly confused as to what constitutes life! Is life something that moves? When a rock rolls down, does it have life? When water flows does it have life?

Definitely not! Maybe, it is the ability to eat and grow! But what is eating and what is growing? Our cars also eat petrol and give out an exhaust. Even mountains grow! But then after sometime, humans also stop growing! Stars are known to grow in their sizes. They gulp down planets and other bodies. Can we call them living beings?

Definition for a living being has eluded scientists for a long long time. That possibly is the reason why people try to define death. Because they think living objects need to DIE.

Not really. We know of rivers drying up and dying. We know rocks and mountains getting denuded and literally blown away. Islands vanish in the sea. Death is too common to call it a preserve of the living!

But then, death is something that all living creatures fear! We don’t know whether ‘non-living’ have a feeling; if yes, do they have fear?

As humans we have consistently struggled against this fear mongering death. Our stories reek of undying immortal beings who roamed the earth and heaven, spoiling and destroying it for long until one day, God decided to kill them! Or make them Mortal.

And so we are here trying to be immortal every day!

As Dr Alan Harrington says in his immortal book of 80s, ‘God is dead’! But then humans are alive and kicking; trying to become immortals. Rajnish adds another explanation on why you don’t see God. ‘This Universe is like a tree that has come out of the wonder called God’. After the tree has come out and grown big, it is insane to look for its seed.

Everybody says and knows, life expectancy has grown from a paltry 20 years in the pre-historic period to 35 years in 1950 British India! Till 2014 when life expectancy was 68 years and now it is close to 70 years ten years later.

Dr Sinclair of Harvard Medical School said, the man who will live for 150 years is already born! Human life expectancy continues to increase well over 100 plus years. Soon, in line with Dr Harrington we might turn out immortal, after all!

Let us play the game of Immortality!

25/12/2023

judgment on the captive consumption of power is interesting. Order came on 9 Oct 2023. Could really sit on it only now. Read my view on LinkedIn

23/08/2023

Almost five thousand years back, human beings invented a life changing device. Even now people think that humans were one step ahead of nature because of this invention!

The wheel!

Wheel was something that nature did not ‘invent’ or ‘evolve’ for God knows why! Observation led man to make wheel.

That possibly was the worst decision he could have ever made!

Wheel changed the way man worked; harvested; moved around. Today wheel is in almost everything that humans do, in some form or other.

Inside the air conditioner, on the roads, cars, kitchen utensils, etc., etc., Everywhere you see the omnipresence of the wheel that was invented almost six thousand years back.

But with the invention of wheel, came roads. For laying roads, he had to cut down forests. Destruction of nature for something other than eating was done by a creature for the first time.

Nature in all its grandeur, never chose a wheel in lieu of the legs for any of its creatures. As a matter of fact, a pure circle is almost unknown in the universe. Orbits are elliptical or some other comfortable shape. But never a pure circle!

When it wanted a pump, it was heart reciprocating. No rotating member anywhere! From the orbits of electrons to the galaxies, none use a pure circle.

Nature abhorred circle! Looks like that.

We humans, on the other hand, are enamoured by it. Almost everything with us is a circle or in a circular motion!

From automobiles to kitchen, there is circle in everything. And this circle, since it’s avatar as the forest destroyer wheel, it has come a long way in literally, cutting down on ground water, pumping out and using liquid resources inside the ground.

Human race took the destructive path with wheels. Today, if you ask people to come out or wheels, they just do not know how to exist.

But nature survives that way! If we want to survive we will have to live with nature not destroy it.

22/08/2023

கற்க கசடற…

கசடு என்றால் என்ன?

வெண்ணெய்யை உருக்கி நெய் எடுத்த பின்னால் தங்குவது கசடு. இரும்பை உருக்கிய பிறகு தங்கி இருப்பது கசடு.

கசடு என்பது விட்டு போகும் பொருள் அல்லது விடுபட்ட ஒன்று.

நிறைய உரை ஆசிரியர்கள் இதனை பிழை இல்லாமல் கற்க என்பார்கள். பிழை வேறு கசடு வேறு! பிழை பார்ப்பவர் கண்ணில் இருக்கிறது. கசடு விட்டுவிடும் ஒன்று!

கற்க கசடற என்றால், கடைசியில் எதையும் விட்டுவிடாமல் கற்க வேண்டும் என்று பொருள். அரைகுறையாக கல்லாமல், படிப்பதை முழுமையாக படிக்க வேண்டும்.

அரைகுறையாக படித்த அபிமன்யு உள்ளே சென்று மாட்டிக்கொண்டான்.

கற்க கசடற என்றால் படிக்க எடுத்துக் கொண்டவைகளை முழுமையாக படியுங்கள் என்று பொருள்.

10/07/2023

Renewable energy or sustainable energy had a huge list of possible options earlier. For instance, nuclear, wind, solar, heat recovery or co-generation plants, the biomass plants, hydel, wave and tidal, geo-thermal and many more.

Today, though almost all of them do exist as of the day, the commercial viability has turned out to be with wind and solar power sources. Heat recovery or co-generation plants need a parent plant to exist from where this could be recovered.

Most of the hydel power plants are already in place with little or no scope for further addition; unless we could come up with something different in hydel. Biomass in India is almost non-existent today because of the huge price rise of biomass, shutting down almost all of pure biomass power plants, accounting a loss of over INR 100 billion for the country.

The rest of the options are still on the drawing board and yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel, like that all elusive fusion energy.

That leaves us with just wind and solar to build the renewable power base and feed the power hungry India.

Green hydrogen, green nitrogen and green ammonia, apart from other 'green' gases, are dependent on these power sources as well to produce them! These gases could, at best, act as a power storage mechanism rather than a power generating mechanism.

When we produce green hydrogen, we lose about 20 to 30% of the energy. For storage we need to use another 10% energy to compress them, liquify them or just to store them. And then, when we convert them back to energy, we will be wasting another 20 to 30%. Overall, green gases mean an energy loss of about 60% or in other words, as a storage mechanism they are just about 40% efficient!

Chemical batteries operate at or about 80 to 90% efficiency for storage and retrieval! Battery storage and retrieval efficiencies are improving but yet to reach the desired level of 95%.

All these essentially mean that it is advisable to use the power as they are generated rather than store and use them. Maybe, energy need to be transmitted across the world when you generate and not really store the power. More in line with the One World One Grid concept espoused by the Prime Minister in the Solar One conference three years back.

Sun never sets in the world. It is shining bright at us somewhere on the planet all the time. So get the power generated wherever it shines and transmit it across. The same goes with the wind too! Wind is blowing at some corner of the planet all the time. Capture the energy rather than try storing it.

Therefore, we need to train our guns more on wind and solar and how to harness them better. More research needs to be done to improve the use of these power sources, transmit them more efficiently and of course, to store them too!

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28/11/2022

Earth's Scenario

According to the World Energy Outlook Report, 2022, India’s coal requirements are increasing and will peak in the coming decade but will be followed by a steep decline in coal demand as the deployment of renewables in the power sector picks up.
India’s energy requirements are increasing and will peak in the coming decade despite a growth in renewables, as per the World Energy Outlook (WOE) report for 2022, published on October 27 by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Current reforms around the nation in Power sector

21/11/2022

" ENDANGERED EARTH " !

GOD gifted this Wonderful Earth to us , full of Flora , Fauna and with Rich Natural Resources ! Planet Earth is the Habitat for we , the Human Beings and innumerable other Species . From Stone Age , we have gradually and progressively Evolved as a very advanced Society ! Our Science and Technology and the Exploration , Invention and Innovativeness has taken un forward by leaps and bounds. This is a continuous process and it keeps going on. At the very same time we have pushed Earth into a perilous situation .

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Current reforms around the nation in Power sector

29/09/2022

Power surge and its impact

Last week, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission approved the power tariff hike recommended by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.

A hike of 7% based on the prevailing country's inflation has come into effect and the commission has also approved a 4% hike per annum.

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23/09/2022

ATTENTION CONSUMERS! - Electricity Tax levied for Non-peak hours without 5% rebate

We are hereby intimate you all that the electricity tax of 5% had been wrongly billed for the non-peak hours in our EB bill, which was not reflected from the year 2013 to 2022.

So, please ensure that the night-hour rebate reduction of 5% are to be monitored carefully on the upcoming month’s electricity bill. In case, if e-tax is not reflected in your electricity bill, please contact your concerned EDC consumers and claim the taxes charged without any further delay.

We have also attached a sample letter for your reference. You can use this letter for claiming the taxes charged from the Electricity Bill.

Sample Letter Link: https://ecloudsenergy.com/full_news.php?id=366

Current reforms around the nation in Power sector