Year Hydro Thermal Nuclear Total NuclearShare(%) 1970 6135 7968 – 14103 – 1980 11384 16424 640 28448 2.25 1990 18307 43764 1565 63636 2.46 2007 … Share of nuclear power in total installed capacity in India in MWRead more
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Nuclear industry may be running out of steam
Rumours of a nuclear power renaissance have been greatly exaggerated. So says an audit of the nuclear power industry released on Wednesday. The report, commissioned … Nuclear industry may be running out of steamRead more
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Antarctica is melting
This new map of Antarctica, deemed the “most geographically accurate, true-color, high-resolution views of Antarctica to date” (and 10 times more detailed than previous views, … Antarctica is meltingRead more
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What Drought? Palm Beach Is an Island of Green
The American Southeast has been suffering from one of its worst droughts in years. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the emerald-green estates … What Drought? Palm Beach
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Warning sign
Seen On A Draw Bridge in Amsterdam http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/10/seen_on_a_draw_bridge_in_amsterdam.html NB: To get Malayalam version, add ml to the begining of URL and refresh the browser.
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How to install fonts
apt-get install ttmkfdir #mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/malayalam/ move the font here. #ttmkfdir > fonts.scale #mkfontscale #ttmkfdir > fonts.dir #mkfontdir #xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/hindi/ #xset fp rehash #fc-cache -fv … How to install fontsRead more
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Rapid cooling of earth by volcanic eruption
1. Volcanic ashes covers earth’s atmosphere reducing the sunlight on earth. 2. Sulphur dioxide from volcanic eruption reacts with water vapour in upper atmosphere and … Rapid cooling of earth by volcanic eruptionRead more
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To add a new menu in grub
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst add the following with correct partition. # for QNX Neutrino title QNX Neutrino root (hd0,3) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 To get partition details … To add a new menu in grubRead more
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mount a partition
put this line in /etc/fstab FAT partition with read-write permission /dev/sda5 /media/d_drive vfat user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0 NTFS partition with read only permission run this command … mount a partitionRead more
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How to configure apt
cd to the folder where the deb files are kept. Run following cmds # dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz edit /etc/apt/sources.list file … How to configure aptRead more