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Section 377 finally scrapped.

Yesterday the Delhi Court, in a historic decison, struck down the section 377 of the Indian Peneal Code invalid. Although it didn’t scrap section 377 in its entirety. It suggested that parts not concerning homosexuality and oral sex be moved to a different section. After which 377 will go where it should always have been, the dust bin.

The day marks victory for the LGBT community as they have long been harassed and opressed. It will also means that there will be no more citizenship in US and Uk for people claiming to be gays.

It was a stupid law that was started years ago by the British and should have been scrapped many many years ago. People have suffered and died because of it. I am personally glad its gone, though I am straight myself. Atleast now

Michael Jackson died Yesterday

Michael Jackson the king of pop died at UCLA medical Center, Los Angeles on June 25 2009(yesterday). He was declared brought dead. I never thought I’d be hurt by the death of a celebrity. I was wrong. I didn’t discover until I barged into facebook today and saw RIP

Michael Jackson written right there. I didn’t give it much thought then. After sometime I read another girl’s status message Michael jackson and I was like wtf? So i checked for myself and he was really gone. So sorry for you Michael. It came as a real shock to me. i couldn’t beleive he was gone. until I read it in Yahoo News . Rest in Peace buddy!

To a great musician, Dancer and entertainer.

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After so much heat!

India now has its first and by extension, only megawatt solar power plant. Isn’t that cool? So what does it mean for you, the rest of the world and mother nature as an entity? For you, the average adult Indian, not much. If the power plant isn’t in your area, unlikely that it will ake its presence felt. For the people of Asansol, it means cleaner air, more development, cheaper electricity, and maybe even lesser power cuts(but that is in dispute. A couple of days of cloudy weather would screw the darn thing). As long as there is decent sunlight, there isn’t much reason for a powercut.

Having said that, let’s dive into the specifics. The plant is located in Jamuria a district of Asansol. The plant has 2MW capacity, enough to power 500 urban homes and 2000 rural ones(figures courtesy TOI). That may not be a lot of houses per city, but well, its not as if its a tiny wee bit of spark. 2MW is serious thunder, guys! It was built on the site of an abandoned thermal power plant. As you might know, thermal power plants produce a hell of a lot of carbon dioxide, among other stuff more dangerous. After all when you burn something, you expect it to try and kick you in the butt for doing that. It should do away with around 7 lakh tonnes of CO2 emissions a day. What does that mean to you? Well, cleaner air, and climate cooling over a couple of years maybe. But it won’t be enough to just make one power plant and sit down at home with a false sense of security. We need more of these to replace some of those ugly soot deposited, thermal power plants. Let  me give you some stats to put things into perspective.

Coal contains carbon(as if you didn’t know that). For Each gram of coal contains approximately 80% carbon and has a calorific value of approximately. So it has around 0.67 moles of carbon.

C + O2 = CO2 

So each mole of carbon produces a mole of Carbon Dioxide. So one gram of coal produces 32 grams of carbon dioxide. The calorific value of carbon is

Now an average urban household takes up around 200 units of electricty a month which is the equivalent of 7.2E10 units of electricy thus consuming  kg of coal, creating kg of Carbon dioxide. By empowering 500 houses, it will save kg of carbon dioxide emissions.

Although, our emissions need to be cut hundred times this amount to have any signuficant amount, it is a good start. The plant is a good example of “inspiring by example”. It will force other countries and well, other states within the country to follow lead. Once they do, we can expect some results.

Exams start tomorrow

My 4th semester exms are starting tomorrow. Well prepare is far from what I am right now. I am trying to study pretty hard but can’t concentrate. There are lots of distractions here. Especially Morachat, apart from Pokemon. I am studying pretty less compared to what I should be doing. Let’s see how it goes. Tomorrow there is my Analog Circuits Exam

Wish Me Luck

Wake Up, Fellas, to Global Warming

So every year comes with a new highest temperature record, did you notice? Have you noticed that winters are colder than they used to be. Rain hops in on the wrong time, there is a change of weather all over the country. If you ever spend some time thinking about these things, you will suddenly notice how much radical the change is. Plus there were two cyclones recently in West Bengal and there haven’t been such winds for almost 28 years. See the point?

Many people think Global Warming is a long term thing and we’ve got 50 years full time. That’s half true. Global Warming is a long term thing, but the long term is about to end. Its started…the climate change, the heating has all started. We have got 50 years till everything becomes unbearable, but that won’t happen suddenly. World Weather will worsen over time and by around 50 years it will be so bad, no one would be able to stand it. And its started guys. If you were waiting for a wake-up call, here it is wakeup to Global Warming. You know what you need to do. I won’t preach you with it. All I want to say here are thise two little magical words

SWITCH OFF!!

Okay Now and again!

I think I am going to start back in full swing about posting on my life.

Since I haven’t done that in a long time. Plus I lost a lot of posts to Kwix’s server crash among other things

A quick update. Where I left off:

I am in JIS College of Engineering nowadays. I have completed almost two years here. JIS College by the way is a stupid college with uniforms. If you are a fan of mine, don’t join this college just becauser of me, please, it sucks.