Monday, July 11, 2011
Small Wind Turbines
In my next blog, i will be talking about small wind turbines and the use of these together with solar PV for developing island countries.
Solomons Trip
Long time since i posted...been busy and thought to drop the blog..no posts, no comments, work...so wrting away without any aim...
Solomon Islands Trip: Honiara June 2011
I went for a week only. It was a hectic job related visit so did not get to tour the place so well.
However its a nice place. busy and developing. the people are great. fish is great.
Taxi costs $10 a km (Solomon Dollar). Taxi's are plentiful in the capital Honiara. a decent meal depends on the definition. Plenty Chinese restaurants...serves rabge from SBD$45 to SBD$200. I enjoyed the roadside BBQ especially since it had a whole (1 foot) fish in the serve (see image).
The CBD is made up of the port, veg market, fish market, hadicraft market, small shops, an impressive mall (Hyundai Mall) , banks (ANZ, Westpac, BSP) etc....
I stayed at the "Pacific Casino Hotel". Its a nice place on the seawall- gives a direct view of the port in some distance and passing barges. I stayed in a standard non smokers room that cost me SBD$500. The hotel has a great restaurant for breakfast, lunch n dinner. There is a bar- Captains bar and as the name suggests a casino as well - though i did not have a chance to go there.
I met a lot of friendly people. I even got to meet an ill treated croc who was locked in a cage with ankle deep water. good thing it was in the shade...
POST NOT COMPLETE....will add some more stuff soon...
Monday, March 8, 2010
Renewed Ocean life
I have deliberately moved closer to Suva Sea point, the prime reason was i always wanted to live close to the sea. After about a million Sundays, i finally had a Sunday off and went fishing. I caught seaweeds only. No Fish. Thats the interesting part.
When i had earlier been down to the sea, the barnacle like organs were the only inhabitants. the other tribes of sand and rock along with "white" plastic intruders were also plentiful. But come this season of extreme summer, i actually saw a huge farm of seaweed. I also saw few schools of fish that were definitely too small for my hook. life had begun once again in this patch and gave me a reason to quit tryin to kill the fish and watch them instead. I have no idea if this coming of life is cyclic and that the witty little runners will vanish soon along with the sea of green. Thats when i regret not having done Biology (not!).
will the new tenants make this a permanent home?...have to wait and see...but till then its quite a site to look at....
i hope bigger ones, reasonable for my hook will follow.
Cheers!
KR
Monday, January 18, 2010
"climate change hoax" hoax damaging
Global warming is real and those that deny this are damaging the pleas of small island states to save them from drowning.
It was very easy to say that the earth was flat. That was because majority of the people had kept this belief. So when someone pointed out that we were eating out the very planet we live on- there was a problem. Because that meant that some fat guy (no offense indented to any) would have to drop back his share of the cake and take less than he used to. And so just to escape the hard work to restore the balance or minimize the damage done to the earth, some wise guy with absolutely no backing of large scale factual evidence stands up and yells " Hey there is no problem...relax and keep burning that diesel". And to that all the fat guys scream with joy and hire a bunch of hackers, policy makers, wanna be scientists and not to forget columnists and speakers to persuade the whole world that there is no crisis at all. So while the water levels on small island nations like Tuvalu rise...precious time is wasted debating whether there really is something as global warming or not!!
The Earth heats up and then cools naturally over hundreds of years. Sea levels have risen hundreds of years ago as well as part of this natural cycle. But the rise was within acceptable range. the sea level rise at present is accelerated by the blanket of gases in our atmosphere causing a temperature rise and eventually melting of ice at the poles.All scientific evidence and common sense point to a chaotic global warming problem. The claim that this is not true has very little evidence.
Either way the idea of researching on and moving onto renewable energy is the best way forward for any nation. Unfortunately we call this "alternative" energy. For developing countries that do not posses fossilized fuel resources the idea of renewable energy can be a huge turnaround for their economy. They wont have to rely on expensive fuel from developed nations. They will create more employment within the country and create a healthier balance with nature.
It was very easy to say that the earth was flat. That was because majority of the people had kept this belief. So when someone pointed out that we were eating out the very planet we live on- there was a problem. Because that meant that some fat guy (no offense indented to any) would have to drop back his share of the cake and take less than he used to. And so just to escape the hard work to restore the balance or minimize the damage done to the earth, some wise guy with absolutely no backing of large scale factual evidence stands up and yells " Hey there is no problem...relax and keep burning that diesel". And to that all the fat guys scream with joy and hire a bunch of hackers, policy makers, wanna be scientists and not to forget columnists and speakers to persuade the whole world that there is no crisis at all. So while the water levels on small island nations like Tuvalu rise...precious time is wasted debating whether there really is something as global warming or not!!
The Earth heats up and then cools naturally over hundreds of years. Sea levels have risen hundreds of years ago as well as part of this natural cycle. But the rise was within acceptable range. the sea level rise at present is accelerated by the blanket of gases in our atmosphere causing a temperature rise and eventually melting of ice at the poles.All scientific evidence and common sense point to a chaotic global warming problem. The claim that this is not true has very little evidence.
Either way the idea of researching on and moving onto renewable energy is the best way forward for any nation. Unfortunately we call this "alternative" energy. For developing countries that do not posses fossilized fuel resources the idea of renewable energy can be a huge turnaround for their economy. They wont have to rely on expensive fuel from developed nations. They will create more employment within the country and create a healthier balance with nature.
Hello
hello readers,
thanks for tuning in. I had heard too much about blogging to not try it. Some times we think up a solution to some trivial problem and are completely amazed about it. Well i will try to share a bit of that on this blog. Mostly relating to engineering (since i am from a mechanical engineering background) the solutions are a personal effort to anyone who is reading and has the capacity to implement, if they feel it is right. Along with that i will give a shot at almost all other topics. so its basically a diarrhea of thoughts.
regards
Momentum Designs
thanks for tuning in. I had heard too much about blogging to not try it. Some times we think up a solution to some trivial problem and are completely amazed about it. Well i will try to share a bit of that on this blog. Mostly relating to engineering (since i am from a mechanical engineering background) the solutions are a personal effort to anyone who is reading and has the capacity to implement, if they feel it is right. Along with that i will give a shot at almost all other topics. so its basically a diarrhea of thoughts.
regards
Momentum Designs
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