IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town.
THE Periyar Science and Technology Centre (PSTC) will soon be able to boast of a renewable energy park, displaying gadgets run by alternative sources of energy, according to its director P Iyemperumal.
A pipeline commissioned on Friday at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal in Devanagonthi near Hosakote to bring petroleum products from Chennai to Bangalore might help meet the City
V Gangadharan
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.
ENLIGHTENING: Actor R.Sarath Kumar switches on an LED light bulb as part of the run-up to the 99999 lights-out campaign, in Chennai on Sunday. Exnora International Founder M.B.Nirmal is in the picture.
Madhur Tankha NEW DELHI: A group of people besotted with the dark skies are working on a special project these days to measure light pollution in Delhi and some other cities.
