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ALTERNATIVES ENERGY
/ HOUSING
Could
sea power solve the energy crisis
As Gordon Brown steers Britain
towards a nuclear future, Dominic Michaelis, Alex Michaelis and Trevor
Cooper-Chadwick suggest we turn to the oceans instead.
The French inventor Georges Claude is largely forgotten today; if he is
remembered at all, it is as the creator of the neon lamp. Yet one of
his projects from the 1920s could resolve the global energy crisis - by
harnessing the power of the oceans.
It may sound like science fiction, but Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
(OTEC) is an idea whose time has come. It is based on the work of
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, a 19th-century French physicist who
thought of using the sea as a giant solar-energy collector.
by
Dominic Michaelis, Telegraph.Co.uk, 08/01/2008
Energy
highway: New use for the heat from asphalt
If
you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that
asphalt absorbs the Sun's energy A Dutch company is now siphoning
heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
The
Times of India, 02/01/2008
New
vistas in construction
Has
bamboo's time arrived? The high cost of inputs going into
conventional construction is beginning to push more people in the
direction of alternatives, and this was topic of a recent seminar at
the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
by
Ashwin Mahesh, India Together, 07/01/2008
Roger
Anger passes away
Roger
Anger, chief architect of the international township of Auroville and
member of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, passed
away on January 15 in France. He was 84 and is survived by his wife,
daughter and grandchildren. Mr. Anger had been ailing for some time.
As the person who gave form to the Mother's vision, Mr. Anger
conceptualised the master plan of Auroville. Giving up commercial
architecture, he dissolved his partnership in France to take up the
Auroville project as a full-time work. A sculptor, artist, architect
and planner, he designed the Matrimandir, the soul of Auroville. He
was here in October last and was scheduled to come again towards the
end of this month.
The
Hindu, 17/01/2008
Of
the people by the people
Gargi
Gupta reports on a unique project in Anegundi in rural Karnataka that
shows how vernacular architecture can be redeemed and integrates into
the mordern context
by
Gargi Gupta, The Business Standard, 19/01/2008
Lights
out' compaign to throw light on global warming
London,
Paris and Mumbai have all done it. Sydney got more than half its
population to take part. And now it's Chenna's turn to plan a
one-hour, citywide, "lights out" campaign to promote
awareness about global warming. Exnora International is co-ordinating
the effort for a symbolic switching off of Greater Chennai' s lights,
fans, air-conditioners and electrical appliances between 7 and 8 p.m.
on May 1.
The
Hindu, 24/01/2008
Efforts
to harvest ocean's engergy
Chris
Martinson and his fellow fishermen catch crab and shrimp in the same
big wave that one day could generate an important part of the
Northwest's energy supply. Wave farms, harvested with high-tech buoys
that are being tested here on the Oregon coast, would strain clean,
renewable power from the surging sea.
by
William Yardley, The Asian Age, 26/01/2008
