The following table gives the Installed Electricity Generation Capacity in India‚ 1997 – 2005 (in thousands of megawatts). The data is based on statistics collected by carbon sequestration leadership forum [3] 1997 2002 2003 2004 2005 Hydroelectric 21.65 26.26 26.76 29.50 30.94 Nuclear 2.22 2.72 2.72 2.72 2.77 Geothermal/ Solar/ Wind/ Biomass 1.27 1.51 1.74 1.87 3.81 Conventional Thermal 59.64 74.55 76.65 77.97 80.90 Total Capacity 85.79 105.05 107.88 112.06 118.42 Even though we are
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The Western Ghats or the Sahyādri constitute a mountain range along the western side of India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity in the world. It is sometimes called the Great Escarpment of India. The range runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau‚ and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The range starts near the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra‚ south of the Tapti river
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option of producing power by the cleanest sources possible. However‚ it may not be enough. With the threat of oil reserves being used up and the energy crisis unresolved it is imperative that the United States begins to utilize solar‚ wind‚ and hydroelectric power in an effort to decrease the dependency on fossil fuels. Many people notice the rising costs of just about everything. The rising costs are due to the rising cost of energy. Nearly everything in our economic system requires energy
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WATER RESOURCES The sources of water that are useful to human life are called water resources. Uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household and recreational activities. The majority of human uses require fresh water. 97 percent of the water on the Earth is salt water and only 3 percent is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen fresh water is found mainly as groundwater‚ with only a small fraction present above
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Sindhu River Originating from Kailash mountain‚ it covers 550 kms in Jammu and Kashmir. From there it enters Leh‚ and gets mingled with Zanzkar river. In Punjab it is met with five major rivers of Punjab – Jhelum‚ Chenab‚ Ravi‚ Beas and Satluj. The word Sindhu originates from the word sidh meaning to keep off . The river Sindhu has been mentioned 176 times in Rigveda‚ 95 times in plural‚ used in the generic meaning. In Rigveda – the Ancient Indian Scripture( 1500 B.C.)‚ is the earliest chronicle
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beautiful river it threatens many cities because of its spring and fall floods. The flood water tears away ranks and bridges and destroys fields and towns. To help control the flood waters they build dams. Two good things about these dams where that the slowed water flow and the created hydroelectric energy. To travel by boat on the Po you had to be very skilled. The river has many hazards such as low water‚ floods‚ whirlpools‚ and sand banks. The Po’s water is fed by 141 tributaries draining a catchment
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Pakistan’s Energy Crisis EconomySouth AsiaPakistan August 31‚ 2013 By Shabbir H. Kazmi Energy shortages are hobbling the economy and contributing to unrest. But the country has options. Pakistan is in the midst of one of the worst energy crises in its history. This is both slowing the pace of economic activity and causing public unrest with prolonged outages of electricity and gas. Capacity utilization in some key industries has fallen to nearly 50 percent. Worst affected is the fertilizer
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559 Testing Your Comprehension 1. Fossil fuels are abundant on our planet today and can be used to create many sources of energy which is why they are so prevalent. They are considered nonrenewable sources of energy because they take millions of years to form and because humans are rapidly depleting our fossil fuels faster then they can be created‚ which makes these fuels nonrenewable. 2. Fossil fuels were formed from the tissues of organisms that lived 100-500 million years ago. The energy these
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that produce electricity that then reaches our homes by electrons moving through wires (www.differentsourcesofelectricity.com). The US gets 20% of it ’s electricity from nuclear power plants‚ 50% from burning coal‚ 18% from natural gas‚ 7% from hydroelectric‚ and about 2.3% from wind power and solar energy
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PEOPLE & SKILLS Institute of Training Development ASSIGNMENT Design the Optimum Grid and Power Sources for Sarawak Assignment submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Bachelor in Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Multimedia University 2013 DR. IR PRASHOBH KARUNAKARAN Table of Contents Details Pages Contents i Title ii Dedication iii Acknowledgement iv Abstract v Contents vi List of Figures vii List of Tables
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