One of the things that i can be justifiably proud of is a water harvesting project that i put up at home.
Of course i am embarrassed to use the word project because all i did is make an underground tank and a pipe system that channelized the rainwater from the catchment (fancy name for roof) through some basic filtration process.
I found it quite absurd that in spite of living on the windward slope of one of the wettest places in the country, we still suffered from shortages during the lean months.
The final straw was a traffic jam caused by a water tanker ferrying water to town in the middle of a monsoon.
Now we are quite self contained with the water. The underground tank is like a piggy bank for that precious fluid and such an approach plays out quite positively on the psychology of the family members.
They begin to look at water as a resource (which indeed it is) to be stored and are generally more cautious about its usage.
Just as we have an overabundance of water, we get a fair amount of sunshine too.
I wanted to do something about this energy too.
However in this case the technology in question is not so agricultural (i don't quite approve of this metaphor really).
I thought a friend would help.
This one was a very sweet, dear friend a genuine person, dripping quite abundantly with the milk of human kindness.
She was also a bureaucrat of the IAS variety and one of the briefs that she held was as some high level functionary in the alternative energy department.
However i was a bit disappointed with her lack of enthusiasm towards my queries.
I would have loved to put up with her proselytizing on the promise of new power but on the contrary all she gave me were some more addresses of government departments .
Anyway i don't quite blame her because she moved on from that position and subsequently took up more pressing concerns i.e. managing riots etc.
Now to come to the point of this long post..
Do any forum members have any experience with solar installations.
Some technical information, a little insight into how GOI incentives such initiatives and gyan about the hardware will be welcome.
One thing i do concede however is that a search lead me on to a whole host of Chinese enterprises that promised all kinds of solar paraphernalia.
Wished for some more desi input in this sphere...
Of course i am embarrassed to use the word project because all i did is make an underground tank and a pipe system that channelized the rainwater from the catchment (fancy name for roof) through some basic filtration process.
I found it quite absurd that in spite of living on the windward slope of one of the wettest places in the country, we still suffered from shortages during the lean months.
The final straw was a traffic jam caused by a water tanker ferrying water to town in the middle of a monsoon.
Now we are quite self contained with the water. The underground tank is like a piggy bank for that precious fluid and such an approach plays out quite positively on the psychology of the family members.
They begin to look at water as a resource (which indeed it is) to be stored and are generally more cautious about its usage.
Just as we have an overabundance of water, we get a fair amount of sunshine too.
I wanted to do something about this energy too.
However in this case the technology in question is not so agricultural (i don't quite approve of this metaphor really).
I thought a friend would help.
This one was a very sweet, dear friend a genuine person, dripping quite abundantly with the milk of human kindness.
She was also a bureaucrat of the IAS variety and one of the briefs that she held was as some high level functionary in the alternative energy department.
However i was a bit disappointed with her lack of enthusiasm towards my queries.
I would have loved to put up with her proselytizing on the promise of new power but on the contrary all she gave me were some more addresses of government departments .
Anyway i don't quite blame her because she moved on from that position and subsequently took up more pressing concerns i.e. managing riots etc.
Now to come to the point of this long post..
Do any forum members have any experience with solar installations.
Some technical information, a little insight into how GOI incentives such initiatives and gyan about the hardware will be welcome.
One thing i do concede however is that a search lead me on to a whole host of Chinese enterprises that promised all kinds of solar paraphernalia.
Wished for some more desi input in this sphere...
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