Dornadula Chandrasekharam

Former Chair Professor I I T Bombay, India

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Feb 8, 2021, 6:27 AM

Who will power the world

“Batteries recently scored a win at General Motors Co., which said it hoped to phase out gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles from its showrooms worldwide by 2035,” wrote Russell Gold and Ben Foldy in The Wall Street Journal on 5th February 2021...

Dec 23, 2020, 12:03 PM

Science, the endless frontier

Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) and head of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development released the most influential science policy report in 1945. He experienced difficulties in applying new knowledge and new...

Dec 2, 2020, 10:30 AM

Water Conflicts

The conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia escalated in recent times due to the construction of the Renaissance Dam (RD) over the Blue Nile. Whether instigated by external forces or forces within, the TPLF (Tigray Peoples Liberation Front) is trying...

Nov 26, 2020, 10:42 AM

In my blog “Egypt-Ethiopia and the Nile” (Times of Israel blog dated 28 July 2020) I stated that all future wars will be fought for water. This especially with countries sharing commons rivers and aquifers. The issue becomes severe,...

Oct 12, 2020, 7:51 PM

The Idea behind reviving the Silk Route

The scientists who were invited for this conference can been seen above!!

“China Eyes One Belt One Road Initiative to Expand Renewable Energy” was the news item in clean energy news and insights by MERCOM India. This is basically the revival of the Silk Route by China to rope in all the...

Oct 3, 2020, 7:26 PM

Carbon neutrality: Carbon dioxide emissions = Carbon dioxide removal

This is also termed as a zero carbon footprint. These terms are in use now in the media. This is mainly related to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and removal from the atmosphere. According to the IPCC Working Group I report...

Sep 9, 2020, 7:52 AM

Can the world survive without coal?

Coal deposits are about 500 to 600 million years old, geologically speaking, they belong to a period known as “The Gondwana Era”. During this period the landmasses were together as one continent, known as the Pangaea. The land was...

Sep 6, 2020, 7:45 PM

Drop in oil price: consequences

While CoP is debating on issues related to the reduction in CO2 emissions, a parallel debate is on whether a fall in oil prices over the last five years is derailing this movement of carbon-free energy sources. The answer...

Jul 28, 2020, 7:17 AM

Egypt-Ethiopia and the Nile

“”Thus if Egypt’s al-Sisi feels he has Trump’s backing, he may be tempted to go to war over the Nile. On paper, Egypt has a much stronger military than Ethiopia.” Read a recent news item. As I said in many...

Jul 2, 2020, 1:20 PM

The game PJs play

“Publish or Perish” (PP) is the sword that hangs on majority of faculty working in institutes and universities. To publish a scientific paper, one should generate reasonably good data and present the same in a scientific format. Depending on...

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I am a Retired chair professor from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and currently teach at IIT Hyderabad. I have 200 publications in the above fields and have supervised 25 Ph D students.

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