S V Krishnamachari
S V Krish Chennai,

IT may come as a surprise to many that a train in Sweden is powered by biogas. Yes, it is the world's first biogas train, a 60-seater carrier that runs from Linkoping, south of Stockholm, to Vastervik, at a speed of 130 km per hour for approximately 600 km.

THE new energy sources like solar and wind were set to become the major source of energy in the next decade over taking conventional sources.

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IN a significant step towards promoting energy conservation, energy audits would soon begin in major government buildings in the State including the Raj Bhavan and the Madras High Court.

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TAMIL Nadu ranks first in wind energy generation with an output of 45 per cent of the power generated throughout the country

TT he prospect of Vellore turn T ing into a desert in the not T so-distant-future haunts the people of the district.

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FACTOIDS ? 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is a pool type reactor and the design has been carried out indigenously with a strong R&D back up from the IGCAR ? PFBR is the forerunner of the sec- ond stage of India

TAMIL Nadu will soon have a solar thermal power station in Sivaganga district, chairman, Tamil Nadu Energy Development Authority (TEDA), Mohan Varghese Chungath told a meeting on

Chennai,

ENERGY security is vital for both developing and developed countries in terms of setting a benchmark for their economic development and policy makers are always ready to go the extra mile for a political dialogue on that count, according to Reinhold Babel, director, Institute for International Contact and Cooperation, Hanna Seidel Foundation, Munich.

From New Year day, industrial units in Tamil Nadu will declare a two-day power holiday per week to tide over the power crisis. However, TNEB will provide uninterrupted power supply to the units for all the five working days.

A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting convened by Minister for Electricity Arcot N Veerasamy with industrialists at the State Secretariat here on Monday.