Rules Of The Road, Indian Style

Rules Of The Road, Indian Style

Submitted by David Harp

 

Traveling on Indian Roads is an almost hallucinatory potion of sound,

spectacle and experience. It is frequently heart-rending, sometimes

hilarious, mostly exhilarating, always unforgettable — and, when you are

on the roads, extremely dangerous. Most Indian road users observe a

version of the Highway Code based on a Sanskrit text. These 12 rules of

the Indian road are published for the first time in English:

 


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ARTICLE I:

The assumption of immortality is required of all road users.

ARTICLE II:

Indian traffic, like Indian society,is structured on a strict caste

system. The following precedence must be accorded at all times. In

descending order, give way to:

Cows, elephants, heavy trucks, buses, official cars, camels, light trucks,

buffalo, jeeps, ox-carts, private cars, motorcycles, scooters,

auto-rickshaws, pigs, pedal rickshaws, goats, bicycles (goods-carrying),

handcarts, bicycles (passenger-carrying), dogs, pedestrians.

ARTICLE III:

All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim: to slow

is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the Indian

drivers’ mantra.

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Solar Updraft Tech: A “New” Old Idea

by Michael Ryan

Coming up with new and innovative approaches to creating renewable energy should be the domain of any clever Global Citizen, and we should all put our collective thinking caps on to get this done!

In the ever growing, wide open Green Sector, New Ideas may not only save the Planet but could make a savvy investor the next member of the Billionaire Club. For anyone interested in the idea of “Going Green” itself as well as the practical potential for renewable energy creation from a purely immediate benefits standpoint, the potential return on investment for the Capitalist willing to gamble on new Green Tech ideas is great.

Enter an old idea with some new found energy: Solar Updraft Technology.

I found the following article on Solar Updraft technologies on the NYT Energy and Environment Page.  I was pleasantly surprised and then actually became excited at the prospect of something so simple and green friendly as creating electricity from rising hot air. (Yes I know, if they could only capture my hot air…)! The technology was proposed by a German in 2001 and initial projects did create a working prototype that generated 50kW.  However, further development was halted due to lack of funding. Now a company called EnviroMission Ltd. has opened an office in Phoenix AZ with a proposal on the board to create a facility with a close to mile high tower. If the project goes forward, not only do we have to potential to lead the world in Green Energy creation, but we might employ perhaps 1000’s of American’s desperate for jobs.

How cool is that!

Here is part of the article from the NYT…More at the Green Room Page.

The solar updraft tower, which uses the greenhouse effect and thermal convection to drive wind turbines and produce electricity, has been hailed as a novel — and promising — approach to renewable energy generation.

The technology relies on an elementary principle of physics: heat rises. To generate power, a massive greenhouse creates hot air and funnels it into a tall chimney-like structure. This ‘hot wind’ propels a wind turbine within the tower. According to some estimates, such towers could, if sufficiently large and located in the proper environment, generate emissions-free power at a considerable discount over traditional renewable sources.

<More at The Green Room>

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