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Yes, and it has been there for ages. DRDO transferred MRE technology to MTR in 2000 according to wiki. A DRDO tech focus article from 2011 lists technologies developed for food processing and discusses MREs.Neshant wrote:Has India even developed MRE packages for it's military?
In times of war, what really is the strategy to keep an army on the move rapidly fed?
Hopefully there is a strategy.
Yes! It still exists. It is called Semi Conductor LimitedYagnasri wrote:Did we not have a foundry in Chandigarh which got "burned down" or something like that in 1980s.
They used to make the 6502 microprocessor around the time of the fire. As per their website, they are at 180nm CMOS technology and make pretty routine stuff. Probably they also build some classified imagers, parts which aren't commercially available, for our satellites, at least that would be my hope.SBajwa wrote:Yes! It still exists. It is called Semi Conductor Limited http://www.scl.gov.in/
Supposedly the fire occurred under suspicious circumstances.yensoy wrote:They used to make the 6502 microprocessor around the time of the fire. As per their website, they are at 180nm CMOS technology and make pretty routine stuff. Probably they also build some classified imagers, parts which aren't commercially available, for our satellites, at least that would be my hope.SBajwa wrote:Yes! It still exists. It is called Semi Conductor Limited http://www.scl.gov.in/
I can't imagine eating those energy bars as a meal all day long.chaitanya wrote:Yes, and it has been there for ages. DRDO transferred MRE technology to MTR in 2000 according to wiki. A DRDO tech focus article from 2011 lists technologies developed for food processing and discusses MREs.Neshant wrote:Has India even developed MRE packages for it's military?
In times of war, what really is the strategy to keep an army on the move rapidly fed?
Hopefully there is a strategy.
Looking to emulate the success of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in designing and launching satellites, the Centre has drawn up a five-year, ₹8,000 crore plan to explore the deep recesses of the ocean.
The Union Earth Sciences Ministry — tasked with coordinating the exercise — unveiled a blueprint of the ‘Deep Ocean Mission (DOM)’ on Friday.
Among the key deliverables to achieve these goals are an offshore desalination plant that will work with tidal energy, and developing a submersible vehicle that can go to a depth of at least 6,000 metres with three people on board.
“The mission proposes to explore the deep ocean similar to the space exploration started by ISRO about 35 years ago,” the report notes.
India’s share
India has been allotted a site of 75,000 square kilometres in the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) by the UN International Sea Bed Authority for exploitation of polymetallic nodules (PMN). These are rocks scattered on the seabed containing iron, manganese, nickel and cobalt. “It is envisaged that 10% of recovery of that large reserve can meet the energy requirement of India for the next 100 years. It has been estimated that 380 million metric tonnes of polymetallic nodules are available at the bottom of the seas in the Central Indian Ocean,” the report adds. India’s Exclusive Economic Zone spreads over 2.2 million square kilometres and in the deep sea, lies “unexplored and unutilised.”
Madhavan Rajeevan, Secretary, Earth Sciences Ministry, said he had outlined his plans to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
The focus will be on technologies for deep-sea mining, underwater vehicles, underwater robotics and ocean climate change advisory services, among other aspects.
Which "disparaging comments" are you referring to.Rahul M wrote:Neshant, do you even google a bit before you post your disparaging comments ?
http://www.mreinfo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=969
from what I can find, civilian tech seems to have caught up via tech infusion from DRDO and the forces might be procuring those directly.
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Possibleramana wrote:PankajS, Please x-post in tech forum.
The report reads lots of hype to me.
To begin with, an agent-based Real AI Processor (RAP) invented by this software engineer, who chose to follow his heart by coming back to India after his higher studies, has created a new benchmark in AI applications.
RAP promises to revolutionise automation by its application in drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, UAV, IOT analytics, cloud computing and even supercomputers.
“We are the only AI chip company with complete R&D in India. If we are successful, it gives society a larger ambition to create more cutting-edge technology ventures,” Nagaraja shares with BW Businessworld.
Talking about his invention, he says, “Real AI is a net producer of data and information that benefits our society and enhances human welfare as opposed to current weak AI systems which are net consumer of the data. We are advancing AI compute with our patented technology called RAP, which would revolutionise the autonomous systems and help build the most powerful supercomputer in the world.”
“Our company is growing very rapidly, as in the last 18 months we have got two products working. We are now the world leaders in AI processor technology,” he proudly adds.
Nagaraja, along with Vinod Dham and Prashant Trivedi, founded AlphaICs in 2016 in Bangalore. With 25-plus team of scientists, hardware and software engineers, AlphaICs today is ready to capitalise on the newest opportunities at their India R&D centre.
According to him, AlphaICs has launched three new platforms with potential to disrupt the AI market. There is alphaDrive for the automotive platform. It will ensure better safety and autonomous driving, and drive the next generation of transportation.
Then there is alphaEdge for use in robotics, drones, gaming and IoT analytics. “For this, we are engaging with one of the biggest service providers in India for deployment in IoT analytics and home automation, and with the biggest Japanese OEMs for robotics and factory automation.”
This is not celebrated as of today because they haven't presented their processor technology for mass adoption. It is a completely new architecture with the aim to decentralise the AI computations that are happening in centrally located servers as of now. edge processing and IoT have a lot of similarity to it's use cases. I find the company very promising if they match up to their specs publicised.pankajs wrote:
Aiming To Be First AI Unicorn From India
To begin with, an agent-based Real AI Processor (RAP) invented by this software engineer, who chose to follow his heart by coming back to India after his higher studies, has created a new benchmark in AI applications.
I consider this completely true. The current computer science curriculum is completely focused on service oriented sectors. The zeal and passion to get to the nitty gritties is not seen neither in industry nor in academia to build 'AI oriented chips'. In their website they have quoted "5X-15X Better Performance than current state-of-the-art Co-Processors". It is monumental do 5X improvement over the state of the art. I look this startup similar to ARM processors (started as a small company based out of UK, now it's processors are present in most of the mobile phones that you use). At the moment from what I comprehend, they are trying to show it's potential to businesses rather than common consumers to start it's adoptability and find product-market fit.“We are the only AI chip company with complete R&D in India. If we are successful, it gives society a larger ambition to create more cutting-edge technology ventures,” Nagaraja shares with BW Businessworld.
For those who don't know about Vinod Dham, he is often called as the father of pentium processors. He has been a successful serial entrepreneur, who lead the team at Intel to bring the pentium processors and later joined a startup Nexgen (later merged in AMD), to beat the benchmarks set by Intel at that time. Later again he joined a startup Siliconspice and successfully took it to new heights. He has the precedent and the experience to build a successful hardware based startup. He is the COO of the startup.“Our company is growing very rapidly, as in the last 18 months we have got two products working. We are now the world leaders in AI processor technology,” he proudly adds.
Nagaraja, along with Vinod Dham and Prashant Trivedi, founded AlphaICs in 2016 in Bangalore. With 25-plus team of scientists, hardware and software engineers, AlphaICs today is ready to capitalise on the newest opportunities at their India R&D centre. According to him, AlphaICs has launched three new platforms with potential to disrupt the AI market. There is alphaDrive for the automotive platform. It will ensure better safety and autonomous driving, and drive the next generation of transportation.
Nagendra the main founder also has stellar work record both in terms of qualifications and patent filings etc. It the first time I have heard someone from the tech industry say Chanakya to be his/ her idol in this world of teslas, bezos, bansals. It is also the first time some founder is already proposing his company to be unicorn in coming years (possible that it might be masala added by the publication). In terms of funding, it has raised $2.4mn in Series A and an undisclosed Seed round by endiya partners (brilliant portfolio among indian vc's). Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that the startup finds new zeniths of achievement.Nagendra, who studied engineering in Bangalore, Chicago and hold a Ph.D from Coventry University in the UK, has worked for 18 years with companies like Lucent Microelectronics, Qualcomm ST and Nvidia. He has 30 ‘filed’ patents and 27 ‘granted’ patents in wireless, security, multimedia and artificial intelligence.
“Chanakya is my idol. I am inspired by his focus on achieving goals. In order to build my company, we require all the knowledge from Chanakya. It is not easy to build a hardware, let alone a processor company. My mantra in life is to dream of great things in technology and convert those dreams into great outcomes. Going forward, we will find AlphaICs to be the first unicorn from India in the area of AI processor five years down the line,” signs off Nagendra.
As a part of this order, Tejas Networks will supply its state-of-the-art terabit capacity DWDM systems and high-performance Layer-3 Multi Gigabit Ethernet switches, for this pan-India network.
The Indian Navy’s communication network is being built as a robust, highly secure, scalable and reliable digital highway for naval operations that will link multiple Indian naval offices and India-administered islands. As the master systems integrator, Sterlite Technologies has been awarded a long-term contract for design, execution, operations and maintenance of Indian Navy’s Digital Network.
Mr. Sanjay Nayak, Managing Director and CEO of Tejas Networks said, “We are delighted to be a part of this prestigious communication project for the Indian Navy as a technology partner for Sterlite Technologies for DWDM and Layer-3 Multi Gigabit Ethernet switches. It is a matter of great pride that our designed-and-made-in-India DWDM products and Layer-3 Multi Gigabit Ethernet switches will be deployed in Navy’s network, which has long-term strategic significance for India. The order reinforces our technological and execution capabilities for building large and complex communication networks.”
TN Panchayat Builds Homes For Its Poor, Sells Wind Energy to Govt for Rs 11 Lakhs/Year!
Way back in 1996, a farmer won the panchayat elections and took a bank loan to set up a community windmill. Today, this panchayat is not just free of any dependence on the govt. for its power needs, it has also ensured drinking water and housing for all its residents!
How Wave2O Works
To create the required desalination energy, a kind of flap, attached to the bottom of the sea, moves back and forth with the waves, generating enough energy to send pressurized seawater offshore – and enough power to support a standard reverse-osmosis unit.
Ceberio’s team hopes to bring the same kind system to Cape Verde, a country that generates 85% of its water supply diesel-electric desalination systems
In what is potentially a game-changer for the environment, Carbon Craft Design, a Mumbai-based design and material startup is harnessing air pollution to make carbon tiles.
Yes, you heard that right!
The startup, which was officially founded in January 2019, is working in collaboration with Air-Ink, a Boston-based startup that is processing the air pollutants and providing them with the soot to use in their innovation.
This kind of system is ideal for Kerala where there are large number of saltwater lagoons.Algae Photobioreactor Using Floating Enclosures With Semi-Permeable Membranes
Grow algae, clean wastewater, capture carbon dioxide to ultimately produce biofuel
NASA has invented an innovative method to grow algae, clean waste water, capture carbon dioxide to ultimately produce biofuel. The invention consists of floating flexible plastic enclosures, and photo-bioreactors with semi permeable membranes. This new cultivation system is made of lightweight material and deployed offshore. This avoids problems of land costs and competition with other land uses. The surrounding waters provide infrastructure, cooling, and some mixing from wave action. Ideally, this cultivation system is filled with nutrient-rich domestic waste water and a source of CO2 to promote the growth of algae and to remediate pollution.
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However, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Pusa has now developed a low-cost technology as a possible solution to managing crop residue.
Scientists at the institute have come up with ‘decomposer capsules'. These capsules, also called Pusa Decomposer, a composition of eight microbes, will help ready the land for the sowing of the next crop without the farmers burning the crop residue. Four capsules, which will cost just Rs 20, can be used to make 25 litre of solution effective for one hectare of land.
Pusa’s procedure of converting crop residue to manure is likely to get the green signal in Delhi on Wednesday (September 30).
(Photo: India Today)
These green and red-coloured capsules can go a long way in preventing Delhi-NCR from turning into a gas chamber. Farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh burn crop residue after harvesting paddy a summer crop. The fields have to be cleared of the paddy straws to make way for the sowing of wheat. The smoke from burning these crop fields travels causes air quality to plummet.
State environment minister Gopal Rai told India Today, "The Centre should act as the nodal agency and speak to the states of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to initiate Pusa's bio-decompose procedure. There should be a central policy too. If states implement the procedure together, we can fight stubble burning without imposing a financial burden on farmers."
"We will be implementing Pusa's procedure in Delhi. The chief minister has written to the Union environment minister so that the procedure is implemented in other states too. This will end stubble burning and pollution to a huge extent. We are planning to provide all sorts of help to farmers so that Delhi is safe from stubble burning," Rai added.
Technology to manage crop residue
The Pusa Decomposer capsules will reduce the time it takes to decompose paddy straw. Additionally, unlike burning which erodes the soil quality, this option also makes the land fertile.
Scientists at IARI, Pusa Campus, claim that if this capsule is used by farmers, it will also help reduce their dependence on fertilisers in the long run.
Dr YV Singh, principal scientist, division of microbiology, told India Today, "The four capsules in a pouch can be used to make 25 litre of solution which can then be used on one hectare or 2.5 acres of field. This capsule will help in curbing the practice of crop burning. This can be used in all forms and on any farm."
In the UK, farmers just plough the stubble before the next crop. It rots in the ground and is effectively fertelizer for the next crop. They trend to rotate crops so that (as well as add necessary fertiliser) to help soil fertility.V_Raman wrote:that thai video is misleading - it is using straws - not stubble. straws are not wasted in india - in fact - very little of anything natural is wasted in india - we probably have the largest population of cattle in the world and many get used as cattle feed including straws. removing stubble is labor intensive and has soil impact as well. so it is not done.
Slow oxidative muscle, most notably the soleus, is inherently well equipped with the molecular machinery for regulating blood-borne substrates. However, the entire human musculature accounts for only ∼15% of the body’s oxidative metabolism of glucose at the resting energy expenditure, despite being the body’s largest lean tissue mass. We found the human soleus muscle could raise local oxidative metabolism to high levels for hours without fatigue, during a type of soleus-dominant activity while sitting, even in unfit volunteers. Muscle biopsies revealed there was minimal glycogen use. Magnifying the otherwise negligible local energy expenditure with isolated contractions improved systemic VLDL-triglyceride and glucose homeostasis by a large magnitude, e.g., 52% less postprandial glucose excursion (∼50 mg/dL less between ∼1 and 2 h) with 60% less hyperinsulinemia. Targeting a small oxidative muscle mass (∼1% body mass) with local contractile activity is a potent method for improving systemic metabolic regulation while prolonging the benefits of oxidative metabolism.
University of Houston Texas paper published at the end of 2022 is sparking a wave of interest Reducing the level of sugar and insulin in the blood for diabetics after eating by 52% (better than many diabetes medications) with a very simple movement and you do not need to make an effort or take any medications. Only by moving a very small muscle located in the calf muscle behind the leg, called the soleus muscle. By moving this muscle while you are sitting in your chair and watching TV, the blood sugar level decreases by a large percentage (by half), and this muscle does not suffer any fatigue, even if you continue to move it for long hours. One of the advantages of this muscle is that it consumes the glucose present in the blood after eating for energy (Glucose) and not the glycogen stored in the muscles like the rest of the body's muscles. Interesting research, and it could be an effective solution for diabetes without the need for drugs, strenuous exercise, and exhausting diets.
I was thinking exactly like that. But that is not a bad thing.Cyrano wrote:The whole idea sounds a bit strange. And "it could be an effective solution for diabetes without the need for drugs, strenuous exercise, and exhausting diets." definitely sounds like an exaggeration. They are probably going to come out with a device next to do this and this paper may be preparing the (huge diabetics) market for it. Perhaps any doctor on the forum may want to opine...
Few years ago in @CSIR_IND Society meeting Hon'ble PM @narendramodi had requested scientists to make mechanized sewage cleaning to stop manual cleaning completely. Start up in Kerala made Bandicoot, whereas @CSIR_CMERI
has made one for generalized sewage cleaning.
Technology of @CSIR_CMERI
has features of collection of the sludge (Grey) water, its filtration for utilisation in chockage cleaning, high pressure multi jet cleaning system, Grabbing mechanism & post cleaning inspection system to suit the tough Indian chockage conditions.
The technology was demonstrated to @MoHUA_India, Commissionerate of Delhi Municipalities, Delhi Jal Board Chief Engineer & many other dignitaries on October 28, 2021 at @CSIR_NPL , Pusa, New Delhi. Shekhar Mande @shekhar_mande
Having moved ahead with the commercialization plan, the institute has licensed the technology to two companies. It is also available of
@GeM_India portal.
#Budget has now provision to mechanize sewage cleaning all over in #India
