Author: Prof Rajeev Singh
Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill is undergoing a significant environmental makeover, with efforts in full swing to convert the 70-acre site into a green zone. Once a 62-meter-high garbage dump, which was almost like a small hill, the landfill is now witnessing a rapid cleanup, with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) reclaiming five acres for plantation. The green initiative, spearheaded by the new BJP-led Delhi government’s Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, aims to curb pollution and improve air quality in the region. Bamboo has been chosen for the plantation drive due to its high oxygen production and…
Matter is 75% Hydrogen, the most abundant chemical element in the universe. In the context of the planet Earth, Hydrogen is not a direct or a primary source of energy but is produced using a chemical reaction, that is, it is an energy vector. Hydrogen is used as raw material in various industrial or metallurgical processes and as fuel, with a rider that it cannot be obtained from nature in its pure state. This is a big rider and therefore the concept of green misses out, thereby limiting its mass uses. The very method utilized to obtain Hydrogen determines whether…