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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
An overview with descriptions of the alternatives to fossil fuels is provided. Sufficient details are given to enable the reader to proceeed with constructing or developing items like a biogas digester, designing a wind turbine, solar heater and other simple technologies. Alternative sources of Energy are not Hi-Tech,and even a layman can understand the principles involved.
The Enabling of Rural Technologies should be the aim of even the Multinational Corporations. Every Indian citizen is enjoined by the Constitution to protect the Environment, and one of the essential tools is the knowledge of how alternative sources of Enenrgy could be used.
It is hoped that such a study would be of use to students and the general reader.
Rahul Basu
The author retired from DRDO and held an Emertus Professorship from the UGC GOI, N Delhi, having been on the faculty at VTU and JNTU, Katrnataka and A.P. After studies at Caltech, and UCLA, Ca, USA he participated in numerous DRDO and other environmental projects in California and Environmental Protection Agency USA, and received an Honourable Mention from Rolex Awards Switzerland, More recently he has participated in a competition to design a Wave power system by the USERDA with other colleagues in California. Several publications resulted from conferences in Bangalore, USA, Mauritius and Jordan (Travel Grants from GOI), and have appeared International Journals in the areas of Solar Energy, Biogas and Turbomachines
