Solar Cells on Fabric ?

 

 

In one of my earlier blogs , I had suggested that the Central Government enter into a technology licensing agreement with Kardinia Energy ( Australia ) for their Solar Cells printed on plastic film

( see :  Procuring Technology for “ Printed Solar Film “ / 18 Feb 2022 )

 

But the march of technology is endless

Now comes news that a MIT team has developed ultra thin / ultra small , Solar Cells which can be “ glued “ onto a ultra lightweight FABRIC – which, in turn, can be fixed on ANY surface to produce Solar Power

Here is that news :

Paper-Thin Solar Cell Can Turn Any Surface Into A Power Source  /  09 Dec 2022

Extract :

MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.

These durable, flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface.

They can provide energy on the go as a wearable power fabric or be transported and rapidly deployed in remote locations for assistance in emergencies.

They are one-hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram, and are made from semiconducting inks using printing processes that can be scaled in the future to large-area manufacturing.

Because they are so thin and lightweight, these solar cells can be laminated onto many different surfaces.

For instance, they could be integrated onto the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea, adhered onto tents and tarps that are deployed in disaster recovery operations, or applied onto the wings of drones to extend their flying range. This lightweight solar technology can be easily integrated into built environments with minimal installation needs.

They found an ideal material—a composite fabric that weighs only 13 grams per square meter, commercially known as Dyneema. 

When they tested the device, the MIT researchers found it could generate 730 watts of power per kilogram when freestanding and about 370 watts-per-kilogram if deployed on the high-strength Dyneema fabric, which is about 18 times more power-per-kilogram than conventional solar cells.

“A typical rooftop solar installation in Massachusetts is about 8,000 watts. To generate that same amount of power, our fabric photo-voltaics would only add about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) to the roof of a house,” he says.

They also tested the durability of their devices and found that, even after rolling and unrolling a fabric solar panel more than 500 times, the cells still retained more than 90 percent of their initial power generation capabilities.

 

Dear  Shri  R K Singhji,

 

To meet our commitment to generate 500 GW of renewable power by 2030, ROOF

TOP SOLAR is the only answer

Above mentioned FABRIC BASED solar, adds only 20 Kg load on a roof – making

it ideal material , even for tiny huts / houses , found all over India – and

especially in our villages

I believe, to turn Modhera Village ( Gujarat ), into a “ Totally Solar Power based

village “ , cost the government approx. Rs 80 crore

This Fabric Tech could do the same job for Rs 5 Crore ! ( since 18 times more

powerful than conventional solar panels )

I urge you to approach the MIT team for replicating in India , their “

Commercialization Lab “

With regard,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  10 Dec 2022

 

Related Readings :

Topmost Candidate for PLI ?............... ………………………( 19 Jan 2022 )

RKS liberates RTSP ……………………………………………………….[ 23 Jan 2022 ]

Sun : Our Soul ( A New SOS )  ……………………………[02 Jan 2017 ]

Thank You, Shri R K Singhji : the Green Warrior………[ 26 Oct 2021 ]

Not Good Enough ! ……………………………………………………[ 02 Dec 2017 ]

Treading ( gently ) on Solar Power Trading……………….[ 18 Oct 2021 ]

No Godfather for Rooftop Solar ? ……………………………….[ 01 June 2021 ]

Market-based Model for Renewable Energy ………………[ 09 June 2021 ]

Congratulations , Shri R K Singhji ………………………………[ 19 Nov 2020 ]

Congratulations , Shri Saurabh Patelji ………………………[ 31 Dec 2020 ]

How to reduce Carbon Emission to Net Zero ? .........[ 26 July 2021 ]

 

CC :

Shri R K Singhji / ( Minister – MNRE / raj.ksingh@gov.in )

 

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Added on 16 Jan 2023 ( Linkedin Posts ) :

hemen parekhView hemen parekh’s profile • YouDirector at RecruitGuru

6h

Almost a year ago, I sent to our Policy Makers, following email, urging them to invite Kardinia Energy to set up manufacturing facility in India.

It is disheartening that there is no response to my suggestion

Procuring Technology for “ Printed Solar Film “ ( 18 Feb 2022 )

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2022/02/procuring-technology-for-printed-solar.html

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Anthony LetmonView Anthony Letmon’s profile • 1stChief Executive Officer, Kardinia Energy

5h

Thanks Hemen! Don’t worry, it’s coming! And we also need to cover your house! 😉

Status is online

hemen parekhView hemen parekh’s profile • YouDirector at RecruitGuru

4h

Anthony

This thrills me no end !

My house is ready to receive Kardinia - and 290 million other houses of India

Welcome


Hemen. /. 16 Jan 2023

 

Single Identifier : Light at the End of the Tunnel ?

 

Context :

Govt considering using PAN as single-point identifier to expedite clearances: Piyush Goyal / HT / 06 Dec

Extract :

The proposal involves the use of PAN as a unique identifier for entering the National Single Window System (NSWS) instead of using other identifiers for central and state-level regulatory approvals, Piyush Goyal said

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said the government is considering the use of Permanent Account Number or PAN as a single-point identifier to facilitate expeditious regulatory approvals to new investment proposals under the single window, besides allowing a similar facility for renewal of licenses and periodic compliances.

PAN is likely to be used as a unique identifier for API integration of data between ministries and states for ensuring a unique business user ID.

 

NSWS also helps reduce data duplication and fills the same data in various forms using auto-population module, he said.

 

 “We are moving towards using one of the existing databases as the entry point, which is already available with the government...and most probably that will be the PAN number. So, with the PAN, a lot of the basic data about the company, its directors, addresses, and a lot of common data is already available in the PAN database,” he said.

 

At present, there are more than a dozen different IDs for businesses such as,

 

#  15-digit Goods and Services Tax Identification Number ( GSTIN ),

 

#  Taxpayer Identification Number ( TIN ) and

 

#  Tax Deduction Account Number or

 

#  Tax Collection Account Number ( TAN ).

 

 

NSWS would help realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of “transforming red tape to red carpet” and currently 27 central departments and 19 states have been on-boarded on the system, the minister explained.

 

Schemes fully on-boarded on NSWS include,

#   Vehicle Scrapping Policy,

#   Ethanol Policy,

#   Leather Development Program,

#   hallmarking of jewellery, and

#   Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) certification,

……… he said

 

 

The minister was addressing reporters after a review meeting on the single window system. The meeting witnessed participation from 32 central ministries and departments, 36 states and union territories and industry associations.

 

“At the meeting, several new ideas emerged from various stakeholders, especially on integration of data collection through a single time entry of critical information,” Goyal said.

 

Goyal added that the National Land Bank has also been integrated into NSWS as 1 lakh hectares of land in different industrial parks and estates are available in the system. The portal will become a one stop shop for buying industrial land, he said.

 

Encouraging more and more states to make use of NSWS, Goyal said states which use NSWS would be given better ranking on Ease of Doing Business Index.

 

The Minister said renewal of licences would also be brought under NSWS starting with the,

 

#  commerce and industry,

#  consumer affairs,

#  food and public distribution, and

#  textile ministries.

 

“Union government’s ease of doing business has two dimensions -- making laws simpler and ease of compliance. Single window is part of the later. It is making processes of regulatory approvals simpler both at the Central as well as at States. But applicants have to meet all legal requirements of respective jurisdictions. Yes, the system will make the entire exercise transparent, simple and time-bound, which will benefit investors immensely,” said A Sudhakar Reddy, a legal expert and former joint secretary, legal and treaty division in the ministry of external affairs.

 

MY  TAKE :

 

As of 2016 , each Indian Company had to have 16 different NUMBERS , issued by different departments / agencies of the Central and State Governments. That list included PAN ( Permanent Account Number, issued by the Income Tax Department )

In the following e-mail sent to our Cabinet Ministers, I had suggested that all of these get replaced by just ONE CARD ( one IDENTIFIER ) :

Ø  An " Aadhar " for Corporate ? ……………………………..[ 12 May 2016 ]

 

Extract :

Now , CBDT and MCA are in the process of integrating their back-end operations , to provide ONE SIMPLE IDENTITY to companies, doing away with the above multiple numbers

  

Without doubt , this long overdue simplification will make it easy to do business in India

  

But , it seems , that each State will have unique number ( for each Company registered in its territory ), as far as GST is concerned

 

Dear Shri Piyush Goyalji,

 

The news report says :

“….government is considering the use of Permanent Account Number or PAN as a single-point identifier to facilitate expeditious regulatory approvals… “

While congratulating on NSWS, I urge you to expedite your proposal

It will go a long way in “ Ease of Doing Business “ – which alone will convince the American / European / Japanese and South Korean companies to shift their manufacturing operations from China to India

Let us go far beyond RED CARPET and roll out GREEN CARPET for foreign investors as illustrated in my following e-mail :

Ø  FROM SINGLE WINDOW TO SINGLE DAY ?.................... [ 19 Sept 2015 ]

 

Extract :

 

 Can we look forward to one of the remaining Chief Ministers , to come forward and announce :

" We will clear all investment proposals in  ONE DAY  "

 [ And , he / she may not even belong to a BJP-controlled State ! ]

  

That would place that State on par with Singapore ( which continues to hold , rank

 # 1 , in World Bank Survey , for many years in a row )

 

Following real incidence will prove my point :

 

Some  40 years ago , Mohan Pherwani ( VP - Planning / Larsen & Toubro ) , made

a presentation to the officers of Singapore Development Authority ( SDA ) , for a

joint venture between L&T and SDA , for manufacture of Bottle Closures (

CrownCorks / Alu. Capsules ) in Singapore

 

After the presentation, a SDA officer took Pherwani to look up  suitable sites  for

setting up the proposed factory

 

In the evening , when Pherwani returned to his hotel , receptionist handed him a

letter from SDA ,

 

 >     confirming SDA willingness to form a JV with L&T

 

>     allotting the factory plot selected by Pherwani

 

>     enclosing a cheque ( drawn in favour of L&T ), towards SDA's  contribution

       to the equity capital of  proposed JV

 

       Sure ,  difficult to beat  !

 

 But not impossible, considering that the person propelling Singapore's current "

 Business Friendliness " is also, a person of INDIAN origin !

 

 That person is Mr Tharman Shanmugratnam , Singapore's Finance Minister since

 2007 and Deputy Prime Minister since 2011, whom , Shri Jaitley met 2 days back

 

Among the many good things taking place due to " Make in India " initiative ,

promoting competition among the States for attracting investments , is right at

the very top

 

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  07  Dec  2022

PS :

I believe current Chief Justice of Singapore is a person with Indian origin

An Un-implementable Law ? You Bet

 

 

Context :

Up To ₹ 250-Crore Fine For Personal Data Breach In New Bill: Sources    /  NDTV  /  18  Nov  2022

Extract :

The new data protection Bill being framed by the Centre will have heavy penalties for personal data breach. A penalty of up to ₹ 250 crore can be imposed if the 'data processor' or 'data fiduciary' fails to take reasonable security safeguards to prevent personal data breach, government sources said.

For failure to comply with other provisions of law, a penalty ranging from ₹ 10,000 to ₹ 200 crore can be imposed depending on the nature of non-compliance with provisions of the law.

The new draft Bill has proposed setting up a Data Protection Board of India to administer and enforce the provisions of the proposed new Act.

"If the Board determines at the conclusion of an inquiry that noncompliance by a person is significant, it may, after giving the person a reasonable opportunity of being heard, impose such a financial penalty as specified in Schedule 1, not exceeding rupees five hundred crore in each instance," the draft said.

The draft has proposed a graded penalty system for data fiduciary that will process the personal data of data owners only in accordance with the provisions of the Act.

The same set of penalties will be applicable to the data processor -- which will be an entity that will process data on behalf of the data fiduciary.

The draft has been published and will be open for public comments till December 17.

The proposed data protection bill will put an end to misuse of customer data, and violators will face punitive action under the rule, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (IT) Rajeev Chandrasekhar had recently said.

 

And here is the proof :

 

WhatsApp data of 500 million users 'on sale': How to check if your data has been leaked  /  CIO  / 28 Nov 2022

Extract :

Mobile numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users are on sale on the Dark Web. ..

According to Cybernews, an ad posted on a well-known hacking community forum claimed that they are SELLING the 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp users that include mobile numbers

The report further claims that its researchers confirmed that the leaked database is of ACTIVE WhatsApp users. The leaked dataset reportedly has information off WhatsApp users from 84 countries. It is not clear how hackers got hold of the data

The database comprises phone numbers of WhatsApp users from India, Italy, Saudi Arabia, USA, Russia, UK, Egypt, France and Turkey. WhatsApp has over 2 billion users globally

 

If you are worried that your data has been hacked , then you can check on Cybernews website to find out

The website has a link >  https://cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/  

<  that allow users to find out if their phone number has been hacked.

“ Our checker has a 500 GB database of leaked hashed emails “, claims the website

Here are the steps to follow :

Ø  Enter the email address/phone number into the search field on the page

Ø  Click 'Check Now'

Ø  View the search results on the same page

Ø  The search results will tell if your email ID or phone number has been hacked

Ø  The results also tell the user about the hacking attack/cyber breach in which their data was leaked

{ Note :

When I entered my e-mail ID in this website, it read : Oh ! Your data has been hacked 

Then I entered my Mobile No and searched - and got following response :

Your phone number is safe !

MY  TAKE :

 

Imagine following dialogue :

 

Shri Ashwini Vaishnawji ( Minister – IT ) / AV :

“ Hey, WhatsApp,

You have breached personal data of 500 million users . Out of these, 10 million were Indians. You have violated our brand new / latest version Data Protection Law . Hence pay up Rs 500 crore ( Rs 500 per user – which I have no intention to pass on to the concerned user ) “

 

Mr Marc Zuckerberg ( MZ ) – owner of WhatsApp :

 

“ Hey, AV

I have not breached any of your convoluted laws. There has been NO BREACH – just outright SALE of personal data of your Indian users.

Before using my WhatsApp service, your uses have given me their permission to SELL their data by clicking “ I Agree “ on Terms & Conditions of use .

Even where they took the trouble to deny me this RIGHT TO SELL , they agreed , not to hold me responsible for any SUSPECTED BREACH . If, you visit my house and leave your phone in my home and some thief steals it, how can I be held responsible ?

Now, other than some new report, you don’t have any PROOF that any BREACH too place

Has any individual user formally complained to your Data Protection Board that her personal data has been stolen by some hackers from WhataApp database ? Does she have any proof other than so called CyberNews website ? Don’t tell me your mighty Data Protection Board would accept her flimsy proof of a self-appointed sleuth / detective like CyberNews !

 

AV :

“ MZ, you are leaving me with no option other than filing a case against you in International Court of Justice “

 

MZ :

“ Please do. Instead of paying you Rs 500 crores, I would rather pay my lawyer Rs 50 Cr , for arguing this case for next 20 years “

 

Dear Shri vaishnawji,

 

By way of “ feedback ( due on 17^th ), it is not enough to say why the proposed law may be un-implementable

What is much more important is to suggest an alternative that will work

Over the past few years, I have e-mailed following alternative :

SARAL ( Single  Authentic  Registration for Anywhere  Login )….[ 10 Feb 2019 ]

Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]………… …………….[ 14 Feb 2019 ]

It is not too late to invite EXPERT opinion about my suggestion

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  06 Nov 2022

 

Related Readings :

Ø  Digital Data Protection Bill …………………………………{ 15 Nov 2022 }

Ø  Data Protection Bill V 1.0 : RIP …………………………{ 03 Aug 2022 }

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

KBC is catching up !

 

 

I am a big fan of KBC ( Kaun Banega Crorepati ) show on SONY TV and manage to watch most episodes

Of late, I heard Amitabh exhorting the viewers to “ participate online “ by downloading mobile app “ KBC Play Along “ and win Rs 1 lakh , sitting at home . This made me look up the following instructions on the working of this App :

[ source > KBC Play Along – How to Play & Earnings – Kaun Banega Crorepati 2022 ]

 

My  Take :

 

I am sure , before the next season of KBC , SONY TV will improve its offering over my following suggestion :

Ø  Kaun Banega Crorepati ( KBC ) and Artificial Intelligence ( AI )……………. [  22  Oct  2021  ]

 

Extract :

By now, KBC has been around for some 20 years

During that period, may be 1,000 participants set on the Hot Seat and ( may be, on an average ), answered 10 questions each, - taking the total to ( say ), 10,000 questions, each listing 4 “ Options “

These questions centered around ( may be ) 10 distinct “ Genres / Broad Topics “

A total of  “ 10,000 questions / 40,000  options “ divided among 10 “ Topics “

Of these 40,000 options , 10,000 were the RIGHT options , giving each option a  25 % probability ( 1 correct out of 4 options )

Now, if you have the COMPREHENSIVE  DATA-BASE ( of questions / sequence of Genres / offered options / right options / participant background etc., ), could you subject this BIG DATA to AI , to be able to “ PREDICT “ the “ right option “ to the “ next question “ that Shri Amitabh Bachhan would ask ?

 

Who knows !

May be yes , what with GPT 3.0 and WuDao 2.0 around !

And with AI softwares on their way to decipher the EMOTIONS in the voice of Shri Bacchan  as he prompts the participants – providing clear hints of the RIGHT answer ?

Should SONY TV be worried ?

Not really worry

But then SONY could try following ( an improvement over a somewhat similar feature that it has already implemented )  :

      Ø  Online / instantaneous / dynamic / real-time, VIEWER-POLL by millions of world-wide, residence-based KBC viewers

      Ø  Offer / Sell , a smart mobile device ( call it, VIEWER-POLL ) ,  which closely resembles ( in size and with improved features ) the device which SONY gives to its studio-based audience for AUDIENCE POLL.

      Ø  Immediately upon purchase, each Viewer-Owner of the device would need to visit the SONY website and register himself ( as device owner ),providing full details about himself , along with UNIQUE device number ( may be facial recognition as well ). Alternatively, such REGISTRATION can be enabled from the device itself, obviating need to visit SONY website

      Ø  As soon as Shri Bachhan says > “  for XYZ rupees,  Ye raha your question on the screen “ , the same question with all 4 options, to appear on the screens of VIEWER-POLL devices

      Ø  Viewers need to select , what they think is the RIGHT option, WITHIN 10 seconds- and press the icon SUBMIT

      Ø  The question ( with its options and submit button ) disappears from the screen of the VIEWER-POLL device after 10 seconds. A kind of Self-Destruct

      Ø  As soon as SUBMIT button gets pressed, the data will get entered into the Central Server of SONY, against the name of the concerned viewer.

      Ø  With each SUBMIT press, a HISTORICAL LOG (  database ) will get created on the server, for each polling viewer.

      Ø  Database will show if the RIGHT option got selected and CREDIT the Viewer’s account with the prize-money won

      Ø  At the end of the SEASON, the viewers will be rewarded with ( say ) 1 % of the WON-AMOUNT to their credit

      Ø  This  info will also get published on KBC episodes

      Ø  Selection of winners of HOT SEAT for the next episode, could also be based on this results

 

NOTES :

      Ø  The VIEWER-POLL device is “ Purpose Specific “ and cannot be used for anything else

      Ø  It will display / play, all the ADVERTISEMENTS , sponsored on KBC episodes

      Ø  If viewer turns-off the device during the Advertisements, it will not restart till the next day’s episode

Ø  With such an incentive, KBC will become a truly PARTICIPATIVE – INTERACTIVE program and attract millions to join

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  05  Nov  2022