Energy

Ecuador's Plan To Save The Amazon And Fight Climate Change--The Yasuní-ITT Initiative

The Ecuadorian government has devised a novel, albeit idealistic, plan to prevent gas and oil development in the Yasuní National Park in hopes of protecting biodiversity and combating climate change. The proposal, known as the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, would ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2009 - 5:37pm

• Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions,

• Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? To compare the environmental impacts and externalities of biodiesel and fossil d ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 5 2009 - 8:17pm

United Nations is playing key role in planning and development of bio-energy programmes at the global level.

United Nations is playing key role in planning and development of bio-energy programmes at the global level. FAO’s bioenergy programme bases its operations on the following concepts: a) bioenergy can stimulate diversification of agricultural and forestry a ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 6 2009 - 3:46am

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT AND IT'S VALUE.

Climbers and twinners: Cocculus pendulus (Forst.) Diels.; Celastrus paniculata Willd.; Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers.; Blastania fimbristipula (Fensl.) Kotschy et Peyr.; Citrullus colocynthis (Linn.) Schrad.(Figure 8); Cucumis callosus (Rottl.) Cogn. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 6 2009 - 5:29pm

INDIAN DESERT has rich biodiversity for biofuel production

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA ABSTRACT ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 6 2009 - 5:38pm

JATROPHA CURCAS: HIGH YIELDIG ACCESSIONS AND IMPROVEMENT.

1 JATROPHA CURCAS: HIGH YIELDIG ACCESSIONS AND IMPROVEMENT. A. Kumar, A. Kumari Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004 E mail: msku31@yahoo.com ABSTR ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 8 2009 - 6:48am

China, Oil, and the Monroe Doctrine

I found this article interesting. This quote especially caught my eye:  "With an expanding economy and a car fleet mushrooming with its middle class, China has been searching far and wide for oil reserves. In recent years China has formed alliances an ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Nov 8 2009 - 8:56pm

Social acceptability and eco-developmental problems associated with biofuel production.

. Social acceptability and eco-developmental problems associated with biofuel production. To overcome this problem we have always thought of Fences for fuel programme in which we introduce Jatropha or Castor as fence crops and in long run it may cover more ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 8 2009 - 9:55pm

STUDIES ON LATICIFER DEVELOPMENT IN CALOTROPIS PROCERA AN IMPORTANT PLANT YIELDING HYDROCARBON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS GROWTH POTENTIAL.

STUDIES ON LATICIFER DEVELOPMENT IN CALOTROPIS PROCERA AN IMPORTANT PLANT YIELDING HYDROCARBON AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS GROWTH POTENTIAL. ASHWINI KUMAR AND NEETU VIJAY Bio-Technology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004 Energy P ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 9 2009 - 9:25pm

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF BIOFUEL PRODUCTION IN INDIA

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF BIOFUEL PRODUCTION IN INDIA ASHWINI KUMAR AND NEETU VIJAY Bio-Technology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur- 302 004 Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Email. msku31@yahoo.com ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Nov 9 2009 - 9:28pm