Clean Energy pumping Dirty Fuel ?

It is certainly better than “ Dirty Energy pumping Dirty Fuel “

CONTEXT :

Oil retailers bet big on solar with easy loans 

HIGHLIGHTS :

·          Oil companies are planning to install Solar Panels on Petrol Pumps , to replace Dirty Electric Power coming from Coal-based Stations

·          Indian Oil   ……………………………………… 27,377  pumps

·          Hindustan Petroleum………………………. 15,287  pumps

·          Bharat Petroleum……………………………  14,500  pumps

·          Indian Oil target …………………………….    1,140  pumps PER MONTH ( all in 24 months )

·          Cost of 25 Kw PV installation…………   Rs 13.5 Lakh

(https://www.aliensolar.com/blogs/blog-and-news/cost-of-rooftop-solar-system-on-grid-off-grid-hybrid-in-india  )

·          Reduction in Power cost per year…..  Rs  7  Lakhs  ( 50 % of current cost )

This is a great news , not only because it has a pay-back period of only 2 YEARS but also because it heralds a “ re-inventing “ of energy-retailing business for these Oil giants which have , as of now , enjoyed a near monopoly of the Energy Distribution market

I get a feeling that they asked of themselves :

“ What business are we in ?

  Are we in the business of pumping liquids in the tanks of petrol / diesel vehicles ? 

  Or , are we into energizing  Electric Vehicles by re-charging their Lithium-ion batteries  ?

  Can we take the first step by installing Solar Panels at our pumps  ?

  Then gradually convert these pumps to pump Electricity ( invisible fluid )  ?

REFERENCES :  

Time to Reinvent for Hindustan Petroleum - Bharat Petroleum ?     [  25  May  2017  ]

Carbon  Conspiracy  ?  ……………………………………………………………………   [  13  Nov  2017  ]

Solar Power Based Charging Station ? ………………………………………………[  06 June 2018  ]

Roof Top Solar : Better Alternative  …………………………………………………..[  24  May  2018  ]

 

25,000 New Petrol Pumps ? Why ?  …………………………………………………….[  18  June  2018  ]

 

Every Building : a Battery Charging Station ?  ………………………………….. [  26  Oct  2018  ]

 

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09  Dec  2018

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A Grand Challenge ?

Some 20 days back , PM Shri Modi threw a challenge

[  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/pm-modi-seeks-tech-ideas-to-break-into-top-50-of-doing-business-ranking/articleshow/66705578.cms  ]

Extract :

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a grand challenge to further improve India’s position in the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking to the top 50 by using cutting-edge technology to reform government processes. 

At a meeting with top industry honchos and policymakers to discuss the ease of doing business ranking, in which India jumped to 77th position this year, Modi sought input based on areas such as

·         Artificial Intelligence,

·         Internet of Things,

·         Big Data Analytics ,  and

·         Block-Chain

to streamline and speed up processes to improve overall business environment in the country. 

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I urge IIMs -  IITs -  ISBs – Institutes offering courses in Transport / Traffic Managements etc to rise to the occasion and develop a technology platform to implement :

Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ?

Here is what Prof Tom Davidoff  [ Associate professor - UBC Sauder School of Business  ] wrote to me about my concept outlined above :

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Hemen

Thank you for this note.

What you propose sounds like an integrated Pigouvian approach to transport pricing, which I agree would be great.

Regards,

Tom  [ Davidoff, Thomas thomas.davidoff@sauder.ubc.ca  ]

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In India , when the smart phones have nearly obsoleted the land lines , we are in the process of installing thousands of CCTV cameras on the roads to monitor vehicular traffic

Question :

With our very own NaviC satellite capable of tracking each vehicle on the roads of India , can we not bypass the CCTV technology ?

For that matter , how long before NaviC obsoletes the RADARS at our airport ATC towers to track , not only each plane but thousands of DRONES , in real time ?

If Shri Nitin Gadkariji agrees to giving a grant of ( say ) Rs 10 crores , I am sure one of the Institutes mentioned below , would develop such a platform in 6 months !

But it is also possible that some Professor in one of the institutes may not wait for such a grant and guide this as a “ student project “  !

List of Institutes / Professional Bodies :

nfo@iutindia.org	[  Institute of Urban Transport – India  ]
director.iritm@gmail.com	[  Director – IRTS ]
ctm@irte.com	[  Institute of Road Traffic Education  ]
mobility@itdp.org	[   Institute of Transportation & Development Policy  ]
asianinstitute.del@gmail.com	[  Asian  Institute of  Transport  Development  ]
director@cirtindia.com	[  Central  Institute  of  Road   Transport   ]
director@cirtindia.com	[   Chartered Institute of  Logistic  Transport  ]
irttprincipal@yahoo.com	[  Institute of Road and Transport Technology  ]
info@iilschennai.com	[  Indian Institute of Logistics  ]
jaspal.singh@uitp.org	[  Institute of Transport Economics  ]
academic@nid.edu	[  National   Institute  of  Design  -  Ahmedabad  ]
jeeadv@iitb.ac.in	[  IIT   -  Bombay   ]

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08   Dec  2018

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3 years to cover 32 Km ?

How many more years ( or Lok Sabha elections ) will it take to cover 3200 Km  ?

CONTEXT :

Ahemedabad based cardiologist Dr Tejas Patel , performed remote angioplasty on a patient from a distance of 32 km , what is claimed to be , “ the World’s first in-human telerobotic coronary intervention “

Sources :

Seated 32 km away, city doctor fixes woman's heart 

BRAVO: Gujarat Doctor Performs World’s 1st Robotic Angioplasty 30 km away from patient ]

WHAT DR PATEL SAID :

“  Today, the patient was 32 km away . Tomorrow , using the same technology , it will be possible for expert hands to operate on patients anywhere in the State, country and World

This has the power to transform coronary interventions in practice and beyond . Surgeons can cater to patients from anywhere if they are at a facility with a cath lab, a robotic arm and a reliable internet connection

Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke , are the number one cause of death worldwide , resulting in nearly 18 million mortalities per year

The application of telerobotics in India has the potential to impact a significant number of lives by providing access to care that may not otherwise have been possible

The success paves the way for large-scale , long-distance telerobotic platforms across the globe “

SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PIONEERING STEP :

The cost of a coronary angioplasty around the world are as follows ( in US $  ) :

Poland   ………………  3,950

India      ……………… 6,523

Spain   ………………   12,312

UAE    ………………    13,027

Israel  ……………….   13,500

Germany  …………… 17,000

Australia  ……………  22,000

UK  …………………..   25,000

USA   ………………..   30,000

[ source : https://www.medigo.com/blog/medigo-guides/coronary-angioplasty-cost-guide/ ]

FAST BACKWARD TO  09  SEPT  2015 :

In my email to Cabinet Ministers , here is what I wrote :

We depend upon you to bring the jobs to India - jobs such as ,

  *   Operating Machinery in Factories abroad

  *   Controlling Air Traffic at Airports around the World

  *   Operating upon patients in Hospitals , all over the World

  *   Teaching students in Schools , in remote Africa

  *   Any job that currently requires immediate presence of a worker

[ source : " BACK FACTORY " OF THE WORLD ?  ]

NEEDED  :  A  RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTION

GSAT-11 is expected to bring far greater speeds (16 Gbps of it, no less) to meet the growing data demands of Indian telecom subscribers. It is also expected to bridge the communication gap between the country's urban and rural population. Large parts of rural areas still remain untouched by the scope of commercial telecom today — something GSAT-11 is designed to address.

Under Digital India's BharatNet project, GSAT-11 will boost access to voice and video streaming in most, if not all, of rural India, ISRO said.

“With India moving fast towards implementing ‘Smart Villages and Cities’, they can be efficiently linked through a large communication satellite,” K Sivan, chairman of ISRO, said in a curtain raiser.

WHAT IS HOLDING BACK INDIA FROM BECOMING “ BACK FACTORY TO THE WORLD “  ?

Could it be that BJP is waiting to get 400 + seats in Lok Sabha in 2019 elections , in order to usher this REFORM that can catapult India to a $ 5 TRILLION economy by 2022 ?

If so , we must provide BJP with such an absolute majority ( both , in Lok Sabha and in Rajya Sabha ) that this reform gets approved in ONE DAY

  

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07  Dec  2018

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Pandora’s Box ?

Wikipedia defines it as follows :

In modern times an idiom has grown from it , meaning

·          “  Any source of great and unexpected troubles  ",^[2]   ,  or alternatively

·          "  A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse  "

Could Maharashtra Chief Minister, Shri Devendra Fadnavis have opened a Pandora’s Box by granting reservation quota of 16 % to the Maratha community ?

Could he have, possibly NOT EXPECTED the following  ?

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Maharashtra: Stand for Maratha reservation creates domino effect 

The state government's decision to grant reservations to Marathas has led to a domino effect. Similar demands have been made by other social groups like Brahmins, Dhangars, Banjaras, Bhoi, Ramoshis, Wadars seeking fresh categorisation as backwards or a change in their category

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Citing Marathas, Hardik Patel revives Patidar quota demand, corners Congress, BJP  

 

Patidar OBC quota stir leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday put the ball in the court of the opposition Congress to introduce a private member’s bill seeking reservations in the Gujarat assembly in the wake of the reservation granted to Maratha community in Maharashtra.

 “If the BJP in Maharashtra can grant reservations to Marathas through a bill, why can’t the same can be done by the same party in Gujarat? And like the Shiv Sena and the NCP supported the bill in Maharashtra, the BJP and Congress too should support each other over a similar bill for Gujarat,” Patel said.

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Both Dhanani and Patel said Gujarat should follow the example of the Maharashtra bill, which was based on a survey of non-reserved classes conducted by a backward class commission. Both the leaders also maintained that not just the Patidars, but all non-reserved communities should be included in the same.

For the first time in over two decades, the agitation left the BJP unsure about unflinching support of influential Patidar community, which comprise 12% of the six million population of Gujarat.

And with demand of private member bill from the Congress, just before the 2019 Lok Sabha election he has been trying to hit both the Congress and the BJP with one stone.

“If the Congress has love for us, it will support our demand. And, if the BJP will not support the Congress’s bill, it will make their intention clear,” Patel said.

After leading agitations which were frowned upon because of their violent nature, Hardik Patel’s latest argument based on the Maratha quotas in Maharashtra, is being seen as legal and legitimate.

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And today’s Hindustan Times carries following headline :

“  86 % Marathas literate, how can they be educationally backward ?

16 % QUOTA  /  OBC groups term findings in ATR , bill contradictory and unrealistic

Pleas against quota to be heard on Monday  “

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And , I am sure , none of the persons / parties mentioned in these news , have read :

Divide Quota ? To rule Raj ? 

Imagine the

·         great and unexpected troubles 

·         A present which is a curse  ,

when they get to read that  !

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06  Dec  2018

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