Renewable Energy

We installed a Sintex Solar geyser of 125 litre capacity at our home in Nasik.It cost us Rs.14386/- including plumbing.

The installation took a day and this pic was clicked on the 2nd day when Mr.gotiwale,Mr.Jadhav and the plumber had come down for testing the unit.

Henceforth,we would depend much less on gas and other conventional sources for water heating.

Thanks once again to "Surya" Dewata..or Lord Sun.

We started our efforts on generating bio-gas from wheat flour some 6 months back and were fortunate enough to have succeeded within 6 months of starting off.

In the adjoining picture,you can see the bio-gas unit setup.It does not use cow-dung.So can be used and maintained in urban environments.

Now we are experimenting on generating gas from kitchen waste.

We need help on understanding the details of the anaerobic fermentation process.

We used potato peels instead of what flour-paste.But that did not generate gas.maybe the bacteria did not act on that.we need to understand why.also,we want to know what could be added so that the bacteria wud act on the kitchen waste and facilitate anaerobic fermentation.

The search is on.......

The solar Daal.Cooked using the Solar cooker.

My mother with the rice cooked in the solar cooker.

We prefer to call it the "Solar Rice" :)

We had been planning to get the Solar cooker from a long time.

Finally when we had an independent bungalow built,we decided to buy one and this Diwali,we got a 4 pot solar cooker for ourselves.The price was Rs.1800/-

Its proving to be very useful gadget and my mother has already started using it daily to cook rice and daal.We also fried some groundnuts.

Some ghee was also made using the cooker.

We are really enjoying the independence..Only if we could cook Chapatis in this cooker,we would have completely eliminated the gas stove from our kitchen.

A billion thanks to Aditya-Lord Sun !!!!!