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Topic: Energy

How Modi govt’s new energy bill aims to bring carbon trading to India, promote non-fossil fuels

An amendment to 2001 Energy Conservation Act, the bill was passed by Lok Sabha Monday. Govt says bill will help India achieve climate goals, including emissions reduction.

Cryptocurrency is not just affecting markets. Regulators need to crack down on its pollution

The exponential growth of cryptocurrency comes at an environmental cost, with background activity being alarmingly energy extensive and carbon-backed.

Thinking crystals have ‘special energy’ doesn’t make you outlier. Here’s why that’s normal

Crystals aren’t just eye-catching stones. During the first year of Covid, the industry boomed with customers hoping the gems might relieve their anxiety.

An Indian scientist is creating a piece of the Sun on the Earth

In ‘India’s Science Geniuses’, Archana Sharma and Spoorthy Raman write about scientist Sejal Shah and her groundbreaking research on energy generation.

Lesson for India in a divided world: How to not let old friendships come in the way of new ones

Two quotes by historian Toynbee are relevant to current events — that civilisations die by suicide, and that West committed ‘unpardonable aggression’ against non-European nations.

Don’t just look at crypto energy consumption. You’re missing its social, economic value

Crypto provides economic freedom to people in developing countries and consumes less energy globally than tumble driers. The debate is flawed.

‘Carve outs’ in Western sanctions give India ‘option’ of meeting energy import needs from Russia

No government-to-government deal has been worked out so far, top-level official sources said. Nearly 85 per cent of India’s crude oil requirement is imported.

Renewable energy is getting cheaper. It could replace fossil fuels soon: Oxford report

The findings show that a rapid transition to emissions-free ‘green’ energy could save trillions of dollars and help combat climate change.

La Nina pattern threatens to worsen Asia’s energy crisis with colder winter

Temperatures in India are expected to fall to as low as 3 degrees celsius in some northern states in January and February before recovering.

Why global energy drought could herald a future of excess

Surging costs of Chinese coal, European gas and global crude are symptoms of an energy system using high prices to incentivise additional supply when and where most needed.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.