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Alternative energy resource the ultimate destiny
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:21 pm | 0 Comment
Give brief account of your professional carrier. DR. MARCO LIGUORI: My career started, many years ago, as Officer in the Italian Air Force. I’ve been for 15 years; working in one of the most world advanced projects in Air Traffic Control Automation. It has been not only a work experience but also it was a school of advanced engineering that, together with two years as more...
Solar-PV streetlights enter Pakistan…..
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Measures are being taken to power streetlights on all major roads in Karachi and Hyderabad with solar energy. Deputy Commissioner South, Mustafa Jamal Qazi, spoke to Technology Times and explained much more about the project details How did the government conceptualize the idea of installing solar-powered street lights? MUSATFA JAMAL QAZI: President more...
NRSP converging to alternative energy source
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:19 pm | 0 Comment
Would you give your brief account of life, professional background and current responsibility? ZAHOOR HUSSAIN KHAN: Currently, I am the Chief Executive Officer of the NRSP Microfinance Bank. The NRSP Microfinance Bank has started its operations from Bahawalpur, a less developed district of Pakistan in Southern Punjab in 2011. The mission of the NRSP Microfinance Bank is more...
SOX lights the only remedy to power loadmanagement
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:17 pm | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO a survey, Pakistan, which is facing the worst kind of power shortfall, consumes about 400 megawatts for streetlights. This consumption could be much more than 900 megawatts as if the line losses are added to it. The country, where power crisis is getting worst with the every day passing, cannot be in a position to afford this wastage of energy. While on the more...
The prospects of solar energy for power generation
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:15 pm | 1 Comments
By Dr. Noor Fatima THE COUNTRY is presently confronted by a severe energy crisis that has jeopardized the national industrial production on the one hand and made the lives of people miserable, especially students. There is a close link between energy security and overall development. The latter will continue to deteriorate if the major problem of power outages is not more...
Sira power management solution for Pak milk chillers
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:14 pm | 1 Comments
PAKISTAN, BEING dependent mainly on agriculture and livestock, is the sixth major milk producing country of the world. Local consumption of milk is still high but the consumers especially in urban areas are gradually shifting to packed milk. What factors could be mentioned behind this major shift, but it is fact that the rising demand processed milk has give encouraged more...
Solving Pakistan’s energy crisis
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:12 pm | 0 Comment
By Rizwan Ghani OUR PRIME minister has said that it is difficult to overcome country’s energy crisis in immediate term but there is still hope. Instead of spending billions on energy sector, Pakistan needs to make clear and transparent policies on renewable so that public and private sectors can make necessary investments. Pakistan can have wind energy on lines of more...
Cheaper options for solar power
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:09 pm | 0 Comment
By Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui RAPID DEVELOPMENT in solar energy technologies has made it an alternative to fossil-fuel power generation in many countries. But Pakistan does not have to depend on borrowed ideas for generating bulk solar power at a high cost, when other economical options are available. In a bid to overcome electricity loadshedding, the Punjab government more...
The wasted solar solution
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:08 pm | 0 Comment
By Najma Sadeque via TET THE MOST embittering aspect of the mass misery over electricity is that the crippling shortages never had to happen. Pakistan could have adopted solar energy years ago if government priorities had focused less on protectionist privatisation and more on people. The number of solar-electrified homes in Bangladesh recently numbered a million. This more...
Alternative energy solution for Pakistan – Solar Power
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:07 pm | 0 Comment
By Faisal Khan via faisalkhan.com ENERGY, OR more specifically alternative energy has always been a solution aimed at this world that is currently depended on fossil-fuel (oil) based energy. In Pakistan, this is no different. However, massive adaptation of alternative energy sources is missing. I keep wondering why? Most of the people in the finance world I talk to more...
How about Solar-isation?
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:05 pm | 0 Comment
By Anusha Sherazi SOLAR POWER! When we think about it, the first impression is, is this a miracle? Is this something super natural? How could the sunlight run homes, cars, businesses? Something, which give us energy without pollution? Something which produces electricity but needs no fossil fuels? Energy that runs appliances, vehicles, factories, buildings, but no more...
How do Photovoltaics Work?
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:02 pm | 1 Comments
By Gil Knier via science.nasa.gov PHOTOVOLTAICS IS the direct conversion of light into electricity at the atomic level. Some materials exhibit a property known as the photoelectric effect that causes them to absorb photons of light and release electrons. When these free electrons are captured, an electric current results that can be used as electricity. The more...
Pakistan missing the solar bandwagon
By admin at April 16, 2012 | 3:00 pm | 2 Comments
By Faiza Ilyas EXPERT OPINIONED, country’s progress in exploring solar potential for electricity generation was depressingly slow despite having perfect conditions for the same. Pakistan should learn from countries such as Bangladesh, which witnessed the fastest expansion of solar use in the world that, according to a World Bank report, changed the face of its more...
I AM pleased with the efforts of weekly ‘Technology Times” towards publishing a special report on the occasion of Pakistan Day on March 23, 2012.
By admin at April 2, 2012 | 4:21 pm | 4 Comments
[caption id="attachment_14596" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Dr. Mohammmad Yaseen"][/caption] The preceding years have been a landmark in terms of phenomenal growth of telecom sector of the country. PTA as the regulator of the sector has successfully maintain a positive trend in the industry. Deregulation of the telecom sector has brought into its fold an more...
23RD MARCH is an impor-tant date for us as it was the day the resolution for the Country to be created was presented.
By admin at April 2, 2012 | 4:19 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_15175" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Abbas Ali Mirza"][/caption] We at Relacom Pakistan feel proud to be representing Pakistan in the International market. Being a part of the communication buildup for the Nation, Relacom has been engaged in construction, uplift and development of the communication sector for the last 8 years in more...
Telecom sector remains a potential window for FDI
By admin at April 2, 2012 | 4:17 pm | 4 Comments
By Yasir Ameen THE TELECOM sector is one of the most potential sectors which has the capacity to attract billion dollar of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the coming years besides manifold growth in businesses and employment opportunities in the country. Thanks to the emerging technology trends in the world that keep open the room of improvement in the communication more...
Economic indicators of Pakistan telecom industry
By admin at April 2, 2012 | 4:16 pm | 1 Comments
By Aamir Attaa Pakistan’s economy remained stressed in the first half of the financial year 2010-11 (July-Dec). This downtime didn’t occur only because of global trends, but mainly due to unprecedented floods that had damaged one-fourth of the country’s agriculture land last year. The catastrophe resulted into high oil pricing, damages to private and public more...
Commerce anywhere, anytime
By admin at April 2, 2012 | 4:15 pm | 0 Comment
By S A J Shirazi BILLIONS OF people are using mobile phone and handheld wireless devices worldwide. Global shipments of mobile phones (and other wireless devices) have surpassed shipments of laptops and desktop computers earlier this year. Result: over 67 per cent of the world’s population owns a mobile phone, making it the largest consumed electronic device in human more...
Dr Abdus Salam – the ‘mystic’ scientist
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:29 am | 1 Comments
Zainab Mahmood Dr Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his research in ‘Grand unification theory’. This theory was inspired by his spiritual beliefs that all forces emanate from a single source IN 1925, a peasant belonging to Jhang had a prophetic dream. In response to his prayers, an infant was put in his lap. He inquired after his name and was told it more...
Banquet Speech
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
Following is the speech of Dr. Abdus Salam at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleagues, Professor Glashow and Weinberg, I thank the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences for the great honour and the courtesies extended to us, including the courtesy to me of being addressed in my more...
SUPARCO in revolutionising Pak socio-economic uplift
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:23 am | 3 Comments
Ahmed Bilal Chairman SUPARCO SUPARCO - the Space Agency of Pakistan was established on September 1961 under the advice of no other than the Noble Laureate Dr Abdus Salam, shortly after the first-ever manned flight by Yuri Gagarin from erstwhile USSR. This speaks volumes about the vision of our founding forefathers. Notwithstanding the difficult road traversed, more...
A journey from Electronics Department to Abdus Salam International Centre
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:20 am | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_13091" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Dr. B S Chowdhry"][/caption] I HAVE deep interest in the fields of Microprocessor based Real-time applications, Sensors & Transducers, Data Communication and Networking, Embedded Systems, FPGA Design, Intelligent Instrumentations, Telemedicine, Simulation & Modeling. It was ICTP more...
In memory of Dr Salam
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:14 am | 0 Comment
Dr. Abdus Salam & Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy Dr. Salam served as Scientific Secretary of the UN Atoms for Peace Conference and remained Chief Scientific Advisor to President of Pakistan from 1961 to 1974. He was instrumental in setting up PINSTECH and SUPARCO and remained a board member of PAEC for quite a long time as well. With the IAEA’s support, Dr. Salam established more...
COMSATS’ role in science-led sustainable development in the South
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_13079" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. I.E. Qureshi"][/caption] THE COMMISSION on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is an Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) with its permanent Secretariat in Islamabad. The organization was established in 1994 as a realization of more...
Paying homage through rituals
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 11:04 am | 0 Comment
Dr. Abdus Salam & Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy “Scientific development" has come to be virtually an article of faith, and paying homage to it is a familiar ritual in the third world countries. The incense, however, is frequently burned at the wrong altar because it is only certain particularized applications of science – not the absorption and internalization of its more...
