PHALODI NEWS: THIS IS THE WEEKLY COLUMN BY WELL-KNOWN SCIENCE WRITER

Pallava Bagla for PTI. Please carry his byline and give creditto PTI)Using cool green tech, IIT-Madras lights up hot-hot PhalodiBy Pallava BaglaNew Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Shaitanram, a farmer fromLikhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for thefirst time this year tasted the benefits of having electricityin his home and says “his five member household has literallyseen a new dawn”.

He is one of the early beneficiaries of a new disruptive technology being spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras which promises to brighten the lives of the 300 million Indians who have no access to assured electric supply even today.Shaitanram’s 58 household hamlet is part of larger Phalodi, a small town in Rajasthan that recently hit headlines as it sizzled at 51 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India.

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NDTV‎: WITH IIT’S HELP, THIS RAJASTHAN VILLAGE GETS ELECTRICITY FOR FIRST TIME

Shaitanram, a farmer from Likhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for the first time this year tasted the benefits of having electricity in his home and says “his five member household has literally seen a new dawn”.

He is one of the early beneficiaries of a new disruptive technology being spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras which promises to brighten the lives of the 300 million Indians who have no access to assured electric supply even today.

Shaitanram’s 58 household village is part of Phalodi, a small town in Rajasthan that recently hit headlines as it sizzled at 51 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India.

In the heat and dust unknown to many, a quiet revolution in electrification has also been unfolding at Phalodi.

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ET: IIT-MADRAS SEEKS TO BRIGHTEN LIVES OF 300 MILLION POWER-STARVED INDIANS

With ingenious tech tweak, IIT-Madras seeks to brighten lives of 300 million power-starved Indians.
Shaitanram, a farmer from Likhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for the first time this year tasted the benefits of having electricity in his home and says “his five member household has literally seen a new dawn”.

He is one of the early beneficiaries of a new disruptive technology being spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras which promises to brighten the lives of the 300 million Indians who have no access to assured electric supply even today.

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IIT-MADRAS POWERS RAJASTHAN VILLAGES WITH GAME-CHANGER TECH

CHENNAI: The highest recorded temperature in India — 51°C — scorched Phalodi in Rajasthan recently. Piling on the misery, the village did not even have power supply. But now, a few houses have got power supply, thanks to an out-of-the-box solution provided by researchers from IIT Madras. The researchers installed a 1-sqm solar panel on rooftops and used lead acid batteries to store power. The game-changer was power-efficient devices that run on direct current. “Each household was given a fan, tubelight and cellphone charger carefully designed for high efficiency,” says Prabhjot Kaur, one of the team members.

What made the IIT-M successful in electrifying the Rajasthan village was the idea to run electrical appliances using direct current (DC), while the omnipresent standard in the country was alternative current (AC).

The qualitative difference in the forms of electricity has allowed the researchers to increase the efficiency of the power consumption by specially designed devices.

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NAVBHARAT TIMES

IIT M Engineers lighten up villages in Thar. They seek to brighten lives of 300 million power starved Indians.
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PHALODI NEWS: THIS IS THE WEEKLY COLUMN BY WELL-KNOWN SCIENCE WRITER

Pallava Bagla for PTI. Please carry his byline and give creditto PTI)Using cool green tech, IIT-Madras lights up hot-hot PhalodiBy Pallava BaglaNew Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Shaitanram, a farmer fromLikhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for thefirst time this year tasted the benefits of having electricityin his home and says “his five member household has literallyseen a new dawn”.

He is one of the early beneficiaries of a new disruptive technology being spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras which promises to brighten the lives of the 300 million Indians who have no access to assured electric supply even today.

Shaitanram’s 58 household hamlet is part of larger Phalodi, a small town in Rajasthan that recently hit headlines as it sizzled at 51 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India.

Click here to read full article.