Story of Aaranmula Kannadi (mirror)

Aaranmula kannadi is a metallic .single surface reflective mirror made of a copper tin alloy by the Vishwakarma family in Aaranmula in Pathanamthitta dist of Kerala since the middle of the nineteenth century and is a reminder of its great cultural and metallurgical heritage.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-kWGe01jE

George..

Bill Gates on Climate change, TED talk..

William Henry Gates III (commonly known as Bill Gates) through this Feb 2010 TED talk proposes an interesting multiplicative model of global CO2 emissions of people (P), services (S), efficiency (E) and CO2 emissions per unit energy (C).

CO2 = P.S.E.C

Not much innovation is happening to control the first three, people, services and efficiency. He believes Carbon capture of fossil fuel emissions, nuclear energy and renewables of wind, solar photovoltaic (using semiconductors) and solar thermal (using mirrors to focus energy) hold the promise to contain CO2 emissions per unit of energy generated ..

Interesting insight from the Sultan of IT who is in the process of transitioning as a saviour to prevent climate change !

Innovating to zero emissions!

https://youtu.be/JaF-fq2Zn7I

George

Why India should beware American overtures.

Insensible and self seeking Indians have migrated to the US, getting future generations to lose their Indian identity and mix with the great American mosaic ..

What befalls a country and people when they align with US ?

Click on this video .. https://youtu.be/WeBU_IKcq2Q

This is what happens to any country that aligns with USA.

Utter degradation, depravation, flourishing drug trade. stifling  democracy, diseases, internal strife, growth of communalism, full of paranoia at others growth, bunch of demotivated people looking up to the military to run a failed country ..

US has met it's needs and is getting ready to dump this once faithful old time ally. The nascent US culture is getting ready to align with the oldest civilization of the world, India ..

India, beware ! By getting close to US, a very myopic outlook, you are befriending the most dangerous and most untrustworthy ally in the history of the world !

Ge..

Energy 101 MOOC ..

Great way to be informed and learn..

 From the time I took the course on power plant engineering at CET in my btech mech Engg final semester, never got a chance to learn more on energy.

Thanks to the *Energy 101* MOOC ( massive open online course) offered by Prof Sam Shelton from Georgia Tech thru www.coursera.org, I found there were so many energy innovations and incremental developments that have happened globally.

Energy usage is only bound to increase in the coming years as the standard of living of communities and countries improve.

Some of the popular MOOC providers..

It took me about 8-12 hours in total sitting over three days to complete the course.

The quizzes at the end of each video added to the excitement (I had to score min of 80% in all quizzes as a precondition to finish the course) was a great motivator to help finish the course with flying colours.

Thanks to Prof Sam Shelton, Georgia Tech mech Engg Dept and Courses for coordinating to put together such an excellent primer on the contemporary global energy scenario and the future challenges.

Hope this will be a motivator for others too to engage in life long learning !!

George..

Benefits of coconut oil. .

Welcome the heavenly nectar, coconut oil. Olive oil, please stand aside..

Lot has been said of the benefits of coconut oil to the human body and it's potential to cure Alzheimer's disease, and the larger memory loss disease called Dementia..

The state of Kerala in India itself is named as the land of coconuts (Kera meaning coconut in malayalam..). Because of the superior diet rich in coconut oil, Malayalis have among the lowest rates of Alzheimer's disease in the world.

Pl watch the 2 Youtube videos given here .. (trying to establish the authenticity..)

Video one

Video two ..

This 2013 WHO doc is a good one on Alzheimer's disease .. 

A Hindu newspaper report on the low incidence of Alzheimer's disease in Kerala

Pl be sure to use the pure coconut oil, the non-hydrogenated one..

George

Rosetta commits a harakiri on 67 P ..

In the pic it is compared on a 1:1 scale with the city of New York, see the skyscrapers at the bottom

Valuable lesson for China .

With Pakistan's isolation in international arena on promoting and encouraging terrorism against its neighbors and Western nations, has China earned itself an inglorious reputation by backing Pakistan ?

Should and can China think straight in this regard ? Will India be able to extract it's pound of revenge for the 1962 humiliation it suffered ? 👍

Will China ever learn from its mistakes or continue to join hands with Pakistan to dig it's own grave ? 😳 Either way suits us ..