Category Archives: Countries

India’s fastest Green Supercomputer by ISRO

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).The supercomputer “SAGA-220”, built by the Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility located … Continue reading →

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Azerbaijan to launch remote sensing satellite

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Azerbaijan will launch a remote sensing satellite, deputy director of the Defense Industry Ministry’s National Aerospace Agency Tofig Suleymanov said. He said as distinct from the satellite of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies, this satellite would provide remotely … Continue reading →

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Zero Population Growth and Environment

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Malthus’s Essay on Population, published in 1798, still plays a role in environmental policymaking. The discrepancy between rates of human population growth and agricultural productivity lies at the heart of Malthusianism. One dynamic leads to ever-increasing population; the other to … Continue reading →

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Siting of Nuclear plants and seismic zones in India

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Dear Readers Found this article and a very good map here . I am reproducing it. Read it and Think.  I found it very relevent in the wake of recent happenings in Japan. FoThe massive earthquake in Japan and the … Continue reading →

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